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But where's the earth shattering kaboom?

The new ECM Burst looks more like a sustained effect than a, you know, "burst". In my honest opinion it should look a lot more like the EMP smartbomb does. Right now it resembles ECCM way too much, I activated it while the ECCM was still flashing red and couldn't notice the effect at all.

[tinfoil]Unless this is a first glance at an ECM rebalance [/tinfoil]

Regarding ranges, can you scale the effects based on their range, so that a bonused Survey Scanner has a larger visual effect, or an officer smartbomb actually extends out to it's correct range? Or is that too far out of your scope?

PS: just noticed that smarties actually project their FX far farther than the nominal range, at least for low meta ones (:cough: seed faction ones on SiSi :cough:), so I guess the range is not touchable. In that case I'd suggest you scale the Survey Scanner, ECCM and ECM burst up to more realistic ranges.

From what I've seen the smartbomb effect, while gorgeous, is a gigantic step down in "oomph". If there's a way for you to add some more blast on there I think it would really benefit from it.

I realize this may be out of scope, but, One Day I'd like to see another pass made on the gate jump warp tunnel effect, which is very cool the first couple of times, but grows tiresome with repetition.

The main problem is the forced camera move from third to first person view, would like to stay in third person, with no camera takeover... similar to the warp tunnel effect.

Alternately, if the session change time efficiency brought by BiaB permit, please consider removing the gate jump effect and simply fade to black from the last frame on jump, and fade into the next loaded system.

Thanks TriLambda, for your work polishing EVE & keeping it fresh, in so many other areas :)

I haven't had a chance to get on Sisi yet to look, but the most important thing for this:

* Warp FX when a capsuleer views another ship jumping through a Stargate & Wormhole.

is that the effect be both obvious and noticeable when a player is looking at a gate/wormhole both at 10km and at 200km. The first iteration of the last change made to this effect two years ago was too subtle to be easily noticeable (particularly at long range), so please make sure that isn't the case this time. Thanks!

Cool idea.

Try a full rack, they are kinda meh individually, but they stack much better than at present. It actually works nicely to show if a ship is a dedicated disco platform or just has a couple utility highs dedicated to ant-bomb duty.

• The Barghest model needs to be reduced by 50% in size (to roughly 1000m) and given 2 engines for every 6-engine cluster (so instead of having 24 small and 4 medium engines it would have 8 large and 4 medium engines). The new exhaust effect is totally lost on the smaller engines because you cannot zoom in close enough to really see it (except at warp where it looks like you have 8 large engines). The Waschi Uprising Mordu SKINs are appreciated, but what I really want is my black Barghest back...

• I really like the 1st person HUD. Can't really think of anything to change other than perhaps having the option to adjust the brightness level. Gate and warp travel is seriously messed up when you have camera shake enabled (it sometimes locks on a planet and you have HUD elements randomly jumping all over the place). Any chance of getting a fixed 3rd person camera view behind the ship?

• Noticing a lot of blockiness/pixelation in the background nebulas (whether in 1st person or not; this is regardless of graphics settings).

• I like the new effects for missile guidance (and I assume tracking) computers and sensor boosters. There doesn't seem to be an effect present for omnidirectional tracking computers, though. The shield effects for adaptive invulnerability fields appear to be missing.

• New smartbomb effects are pretty slick. They seem to really extend far out (well past range); not sure if this was intentional?

ECM burst and survey scanner should be swapped about.

The present survey scanner has a very burst effect. While the present ECM burst looks like probing energies.

Maybe it is an idea to let the tracking computer and sensor booster indicate which script is loaded by the effect? The current tracking computer effect reminds me (at the moment) of a range script since it 'pushes' out.

I think meaningful gameplay and even more exciting PVP can be attained by implementing this.

I like all the new effects so far, keep it up :)