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Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.05.22 01:38:28 -
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So, the ship hull is supposedly eutectic enough to use the Kerr effect on efficiently. Minmatar corporations developed ships in the Marauder and Black Ops classes, and these ships are not particularly cheap.
...and the designers didn't consider rust, where their colleagues in the other empires did? Down with rust; this part of the lore is silly, especially with not-so-recent changes.
Is the Sebiestor Hel going to get rusty? Are the Krusual skins going to rust? The whole thing just seems silly to me. |
Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.05.23 07:16:03 -
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CCP Darwin wrote: You pilot these ships through highly populated regions around stations, structures, stargates where other ships get blown up on a daily basis. Do you think you can just fly around the clouds of microscopic debris, vaporized fuel and cargo, and who knows what kind of human effluvium left by the space battles that probably concluded seconds before you undocked or landed on grid?
All that stuff ends up on your ship, leaving a dark, streaky, somewhat sticky, tar-like, most-likely-toxic miasma on its surface.
Also, chances are that the piping above your ship hangar's ceiling leaks. You don't want to know what's running through those pipes.
My ship has shields. Particulate matter isn't getting through them, or else we'd just nanite weapons on enemy ships, yes? |
Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.05.25 10:32:53 -
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Mnehal wrote: Does this oxidate? Well if it did it would probably not be used for ship plating.
To me the each factions ships look brown, blue, green, gold because of impurities found in any and all building materials from the nebulas the Empires are in. Not because they rust.
I couldn't agree more with this. This planned change makes no lore sense at all; if rust is all-important and some people just have to have it, release some rusty skins.
To CCP; the new texture format looks great, and opens a lot of possibilities up. Please do not waste channels on dirt, just roll out the new texture format and save that channel for possible future dynamic things like armor damage.
Think about the dev blog you will be writing four years from now, about how you want to pack in more channels, because you've run out of room for layers.. |
Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.05.27 04:19:19 -
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How about we fix this part of the Minmatar problem first: https://puu.sh/i23uM/22ffd55aaf.png ..before we worry about rust and dirt? |
Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.05.27 04:31:34 -
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Rain6637 wrote: So the medium setting without dirt will be cleaner than the current look which has dirt? That is worth being thankful for.
Medium looks 10x better than High currently, at least in my opinion.
Comparison shot of the Leopard, "Medium" on the left, "High" on the right. Proof, at least to me, that the rust/dirt layer is not welcome or helpful: https://puu.sh/i2464/22623283b9.png |
Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.05.27 22:42:09 -
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I'll stop ranting about this now, I promise.. but speaking of ships that I think look much better in 'Medium' mode, here is the Fed Navy Atron: https://puu.sh/i2YTD/8e35db9361.png |
Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.05.28 21:45:32 -
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Shinzhi Xadi wrote:
I think the change from medium to high is a teeny bit more than that somehow. While running missions in amarr space with some very bright cloud effects, the entire back ground went solid white. The brackets, overview and my ship was still there, just the background was solid white. Wiggling and zooming my camera around cleared it up. I have never, ever had this happen before, and the only thing I changed was I tried medium shader to see my ship clean.
I just had the same experience yesterday in Medium mode as well; also in Amarr space. I was running a mission that involves clearing a Star-Port of guards, and then waiting for the convoy to arrive, and the screen turned white as I cleared the last guard.
It's a tough call, because I definitely prefer the look of many things in High as well, such as stargates, and other structures that actually HAVE been out in space without shields.
Other than disabling rust, the main attraction of Medium to me is visibility. As has been rehashed many times on the forums, space is incredibly bright in EVE, and there are few shadows. This means typically your ship is a small black silhouette against a brilliant background of glare. We want some ship SKINs that we can still see.
A slider for skybox/system primary illumination would be more than welcome; I have to turn my display brightness down to almost the minimum to play EVE in highsec. Wormholes are mostly a welcome balm, because they tend to be darker. |
Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.05.30 01:49:41 -
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CCP Darwin wrote: Only a handful of regions are really bright. Many are quite dark. We had a pass some months ago to look at certain excessively bright nebulas, sounds like it needs to happen again.
Maybe this is one of the ones you meant already, but: Here is Amarr VIII's undock, looking up: https://puu.sh/i5rxp/702809126d.png
..and here it is with the tactical overlay enabled (in warp to insta-undock): https://puu.sh/i5rxW/a0dab665b9.png
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Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.06.03 22:51:21 -
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Rain6637 wrote:I think you overdid the brillo treatment.
Haha! The Golem looks like it has been drifting in space for centuries now. Derelict Ships Online. |
Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.06.07 05:11:15 -
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It is miraculous how much less I care about this now that I've seen the new icons. |
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Louanne Barros
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Posted - 2015.06.12 02:25:39 -
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Ben Zaye wrote: When a player buys a ship, it should be look new!
The notion is even funnier if you consider building the ship yourself. Apparently as I roll it off my production line, I make sure to "distress" it like a designer pair of jeans. |
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