EVE General Discussion

Yep, many people find a workaround for these wonderful ne . . now rather old features. Avoiding the game graphics so one can watch porn or whatever. How's that for immersion CCP? Another workaround is just playing less and less. One of these days . . . and no, my stuffs will just rot on a harddrive somewhere.

I'll consider it. One can never have too many derptrons I suppose

Adding another +1, its pretty but annoying

How about they replace the jump animation with a giant tooltip?

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What they don't already have one? What if you don't know what jumping is? How can Eve players learn without this?? You honestly can't expect them to right click and show info! Way too much effort!

I've been reading the comments on the tooltips, and it's giving me serious deja vu.

1. CCP rolls out a new feature.


2. EVE players find the feature annoying and obtrusive to their gameplay, and so request an off switch.


3. CCP makes empty promises to consider feedback and make the feature "less bad," but due to pride in their "accomplishments," never give any indication that they will even consider an off switch as a viable alternative.

Will CCP ever learn?

It's not so bad that very many people are willing to stop playing the game.
CCP still gets paid, so it's just as well for them.

It's probably way too late for feedback about the jump animation, but here are the issues for me:

• The spinning at the beginning
• The spinning at the end
• The lack of camera control in the middle

The warp animation doesn't force you to a particular perspective, camera distance or camera angle. The jump animation does force you to a particular perspective, camera distance and camera angle, and it also change the angle quite drastically (so you can be looking "through" the star gate to see the "awesome" jump tunnel.

Then during the jump you have no camera control. During a warp you can turn the camera and admire your ship while waiting the two minutes for that 120 AU warp in Barkrik.

The jump animation then zooms and starts panning the camera around at the other end.

After about the third or fourth jump in a row, this starts to get annoying.

As for ideas about what might be cool: how about instead of a "tunnel" effect, you have a "space warp" effect where the destination sky-box and star are loaded, and you then proceed to stretch the star gate's volume into a hole through which you can see the destination skybox, then pull this construction "over" the viewer's "camera", effectively pushing the spaceship through the wormhole, then collapse the wormhole behind the ship in a reverse of the previous operation. Then start loading the overview with objects as the server is feeding the data to the client. Of course this might end up being worse for some people than the constantly spinning camera, but it would be awesome :)

We need to sit down with those wormhole simulators and determine what this transition would actually look like. The warp tunnel effect for gate and cyno jumps is a little boring and tired. In the linked article, the two locations are a university campus and a beach. Those scenes are what I mean the source and destination system's skyboxes.

Maybe we could have an option to make the new tooltips even bigger so they just cover the entire screen, thus solving this issue?

It's like being drunk.

“What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water!”

-DA