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Share Screenshoots Ingame
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Lara Sunji
Doomheim
#21 - 2015-11-10 10:15:35 UTC
1) Add game to steam
2) Take screenshots with steam
3) Share
4) Profit
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2015-11-10 11:19:42 UTC
Kenrailae wrote:
Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:


To be clear it is the technical limitations that would kill this (and the servers).

You take a screenshot which is stored locally on your client. No problem, that's all client side.

Then you upload the picture to a server providing the access to the stored images and the storage to hold them. This would need to be new hardware with dedicated network links, or throttled in someway to prevent lag on the actual game network. Storage would still be required whatever.

Next you share the link and everyone goes to look at it in your group...more network bandwidth required at CCP's end.

This would be far more than CCP adding a bit of software for something that is already provided by many dedicated image sharing companies. A negotiated tie-in deal would be a far better option if CCP decided it was worth the time to discuss.




So how is this different than a saved fit, or your watch list, or overview settings checks?


The storage used by any of those is likely to be in the low Kb, images depend on the quality etc but will be in the Mb. Huge amount of extra storage required when people start getting click happy
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2015-11-10 11:21:11 UTC
Iain Cariaba wrote:
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Saved fits, watchlists, and shared overviews are relatively small text files. Screenshots are not.


Just saw this :)
Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
#24 - 2015-11-10 12:21:39 UTC
I think the real question is this:

200 guys defending local
200 guys jump in to fight

200 guys already on grid all start sharing screen shots
laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag
200 incoming guys get popped before they load grid (because screenshots)


If this is what screen shot sharing would do, then no thanks.

I don't see any point to instant screen shot sharing. If your scouts are so bad that you don't trust them w/out a screenshot, then work with them and make them better. Everything else - there is sufficient time to use some 3rd party program to get your screenshots w/out killing those 200 dudes jumping in to have some fun.
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