Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Agreed

Apparently there are widely varying levels of sensitivity regarding this issue and I guess it's the difference between the "Let's Undock And Shoot Something" crowd as opposed to those who, for whatever reason, need to spend considerable time in station. The reasons I hate the things are multi-level and mentioned ad infinitum nausem (sic?) previously. But the fact that the thread is being dogged to death is that the vast majority of the players would really, really like to make the hangar vids optional and the fact that CCP continues to play the boring, repetitious, ugly and distracting things session after session leads me to question their "listening to player feedback" schtick.

Wow, so much hate. Just change your camera angle?

I think they can be repetitive, but this is player created content. I support 100% and I wish there was a way to open this up for more sources.

You have some data to back up that statement right?

I've right clicked on the damn billboard hoping there was a way to turn that thing off. I don't understand its purpose since you can't even click on the billboard to see what the damn ad is about.

hardly a relevant comparison, but since you brought it up, many places actually do ban roadside billboards, as they are considered eyesores and can be distracting to drivers


I too would like an option to turn off the ads in station, they were nifty to see the stuff the players made once, but only once.

Yes you can rotate your camera away from them, yes I do this, yes I still think there should be a way to just turn them off

the ship loops have never bothered me, its just npc traffic

and just because I can turn my camera view to be out of alignment of the ad screens doesn't mean I should have to, particularly since you have to redo it every time you dock; it'd be one thing if your station camera position saved instead of going to a default, or if the default was out of view of the screens

I tried shooting cruise missiles at the screens to shut them off but my ships safety systems wouldn't let me do it inside a station :(

It should be a slap in the face to those who worked on the feature, its a bad feature.

The npc traffic ships in the background are not flashy animations, they make sense to be there on the idea that the station isn't a ghost town. They blend in to the background as well.

The billboards are exactly the kind of thing many people use ad block addons on their browsers to get rid of; as others have pointed out they're not even well placed for some station types.

If nothing else there should only be one screen per hangar, and it should be off the default camera angle, and there really should be an option to turn them off entirely.

The problems boil down to that they're annoying, but I'll restate why:
- Bad placement
- They're in the default view upon docking
- Flashy bright animations (as well made as some of them are, I'd only ever want to see them once)

Moving them out of view is a perfectly valid workaround, but not a valid permanent solution.

If I was the only one that found them annoying, sure, I'd just suck it up and ignore them. However I'm seeing in these types of threads at least those people who bother posting their complaints, and I agree with them.

One thing that would be nifty (if CCP won't let us just turn them off) is that in the case of citadels and player owned nullsec outposts that the owners of the structure can filter which ads are able to be displayed (why a station owner would allow enemy ads to show in their stations....)

It was also at one point said (though maybe inaccurately) that the videos don't cache and you redownload them a lot? If this is true this is anothe reason I'd like to be able ot turn them off, my internet connection is slow enough as it is. If they do actually cache (as they should) and only the new ones have to download, then this complaint becomes moot.

I managed to turn mine 'semi-off' to the point where I only see SCOPE displayed on them. I had to turn a lot of my graphics to a very low level, however.

I haven't been in CQ since my noob mission days, like the man said, something that was given that nobody wanted. Hangar vids? Much less desirable than CQ, at least you can just stay out of CQ, no way, yet, to turn off the *&^^ vids.

This issue is split between the "Quit whining and move your viewpoint" (bad guys) and the "Please give us an option to turn the vids off" (good guys.

And the bad guys can't stop posting all about the good guys being a whiny bunch of losers, which is pretty well making this thread immortal, kind of like a capsuleer, huh?

And, of course, as long as it's page one material I'll keep jumping in and inserting my tuppence worth.

And y'all have a nice day.

Is tuppence actually money? I was crew on a USA Guided Missile Destroyer in the 60's, the last time I was in the UK. But I watch a lot of BBC stuff, that's probably where I got the tuppence thing from.