Test Server Feedback

Hi all,

With the recent deployment of our latest testing environment to Sisi we have included a revamp of all suns within New Eden as well as a change to the quality of lighting in Hangars. On top of that, we have introduced corp/alliance/executor logos to structures.

To better promote the changes to Suns, we have also changed the warp in-point for all types; from a near-polar position to a closer, equatorial position.

Suns will now cast secondary lighting system-wide, though this will attenuate with distance from the Sun and they also take advantage of our environment template system to create depth-fog and audio features to round off the near-Sun environment.

As for hangars, we have added a new lighting rig system for ships to better show off your shinies-in-station.

Structure logos are now present, inheriting the logo of the corp, the alliance and a representation of the CEO of the Executor corp of an alliance.

We're eager to hear your thoughts on these changes, from both an aesthetic and performance-related view.

Cheers!

Sledge.

Not sure if it's one of your but as you've mentioned icons the engineering complex are the wrong way around (medium EC has the largest icon & the XL has the smallest)

It seems alliance logos are not copied over to sisi. All alliances just have the default stars picture. Could a few alliances have their logos copied over for testing purposes? :)

Most if not all will have the default. I'll have a word and see if it's possible to mirror the imageserver.

If it's not too much trouble could you submit a bug report from the client about that?

Could you add suns to the right-click menu in space? There's asteroid belts, planets, stations, structures, stargates, but no sun.

Any reason its not the CEO of the corp holding the structure? I'd have thought most executor CEOs are just throw-away chars in throw away corps.

From the feedback we've received, we're currently looking at changing it to being the CEO of the corp that's holding the structure. These changes are being made as I type, so keep an eye out for the next SISI update.

This change has been made internally.

This is part of a larger question that we've been trying to work through of how we can find ways to highlight individuals as well as groups in the in-space experience, offering an individual a way to aspire to having a human presence in the game. We do have other concepts for this, but this feature was an opportunity to do something simple to serve that goal.

What it means to the corp's members is going to vary a lot from corp to corp. Many corps (including some with the strongest identities) have CEOs who are active players and whose personalities help define what makes the group work. Many corps, as you say, have CEOs who are essentially placeholders, and yes, they won't see as much value in it.

The earlier idea of using alliance executor corp CEOs was a first-pass implementation that was created to get the feature going, before we had a full discussion about where the value might be in having such a portrait on the structure. Player feedback on this mirrored our internal feedback and we were happy to tweak it to make it something a bit more meaningful.

These portraits are relatively small and are placed far less prominently than alliance and corp logos. They're there if you care about them and look for them, and if someone wants to highlight the CEO portrait in, say, a player-produced video, it should be easy to do so, but they don't dominate the look of the structure. If you're not looking for them, you're unlikely to find them too distracting.

The reason that we are not providing UI control over these features is that doing so would require back-end database and UI work that would necessarily involve another team, and would greatly increase the complexity and time to implement the feature.

I personally think that corps with CEOs with strong personalities and in-game identities will enjoy the detail, while corps with placeholder alt CEOs can probably find ways to be creative with their portraits that communicate a mood or something about their corporate personality.