The new character editor

[Hawkbit]

I was not expecting that pic in the OP; it destroyed me.  Might be the hardest I've laughed in a year.  I woke the dog, I might have woken my family.  Holy shit that was funny. 

In game pics should be RL, imo.  Up the ante a bit. 

[Setanta]

Pretty sure they have plans to add a lot more shit in the future including tattoos. Also nice side effect is that avatars are now rendered server side so you just download images.

I hope so because the new editor feel like about 20 steps back from the old.

[Kageru]

Doesn't matter how many more steps they take when they are on the wrong path. None of this makes Eve a better game and god knows there's a billion things that could be added to make it more fun with the development effort they are wasting.

... Though of course it's just the leftovers from WoD in practice. Back-ported to Eve to make them feel they're getting something for their monthly sub.

[Gets]

Thank you for paying to test our vampire MMO features. - CCP

PS: Deal with it.

[Special J]

I've discovered the shitty options aren't nearly as frustrating as the actual act of editing the portrait.

<click>...*wait*...*wait*
No that hair doesn't look right.
<click>...*wait*...*wait*
 

[IainC]

I've discovered the shitty options aren't nearly as frustrating as the actual act of editing the portrait.

<click>...*wait*...*wait*
No that hair doesn't look right.
<click>...*wait*...*wait*
 

Especially as the thuimbnails of the different elements are so small and indistinct. The only way to get a decent look at the options is to preview them all on your character which takes ages. Why the fuck can't they have a decent UI which focuses on one element at a time and displays it to you in a useful size?

[Setanta]

You know, if they fucked all this avatar shit off and let us customise the ships... you know, the things that are actually the Eve drawcard.

Hell if CCP said "you an keep your old avatar but never leave your ship" I'd sign on the dotted line.

[ajax34i]

In my opinion, even the ships would be pointless to customize repaint, because most players zoom out and play [] brackets in space.

[Surlyboi]

I'd customize the shit out of my ship. Do I play brackets? of course I do. It's kinda good for threat assessment, that said, I still like to zoom in on my ride every now and then.

That said, I find the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the forums pretty goddamn funny, considering most of them never look at their pilots' pictures.

[tmp]

Why the fuck can't they have a decent UI

That's rhetorical, isn't it.

[Brolan]

In my opinion, even the ships would be pointless to customize repaint, because most players zoom out and play [] brackets in space.

In the third-person view you are looking at it all the time.  And really, aren't you the one that counts?

[eldaec]

Hell if CCP said "you an keep your old avatar but never leave your ship" I'd sign on the dotted line.

Hell if CCP said "you can have your cake, but eat it as well" I too, would sign on the dotted line.

[Yegolev]

These are so much worse than the previous.  I'm talking a EQ2 level of soul-removal here.

I'm going to pour one out for those who have fallen.

[Surlyboi]

I've decided to have fun with it. All of my characters will now have extreme closeups.

[eldaec]

btw, in case anyone hasn't figured it out, the reason can't have tattoos, metal parts, or other cool futuristic shit (apart from it not being needed for WoD) is that CCP plan to nickel and dime you for that crap through micro-trans.

[Kitsune]

Your extreme closeup-fu is weak.  Behold!

[Surlyboi]

That's awesome. I managed to get just one eye in on one of them.

[Yegolev]

I've decided to have fun with it. All of my characters will now have extreme closeups.

Reminds me of:

[Kitsune]

I was going to keep it that way, too, until I was struck with the opportunity.



 

[eldaec]

Fuck, we need rep buttons so much.

[Slayerik]

Had to re-post this.

[Surlyboi]

I've decided to have fun with it. All of my characters will now have extreme closeups.

Reminds me of:

That's close to what I was going for.

[Setanta]

I was going to keep it that way, too, until I was struck with the opportunity.



 

All sorts of win for the Trekkies :D

[Surlyboi]

Basically, I can see this turning into bad driver's license pictures. Which, is pretty goddamned awesome.

[TripleDES]

Doesn't matter how many more steps they take when they are on the wrong path. None of this makes Eve a better game and god knows there's a billion things that could be added to make it more fun with the development effort they are wasting.

Because there's only one development team working sequentially on single features. Especially since it's tech being developed anyway, EVE or not. You do know that they're working on another MMO using exactly that tech, don't you?

Reading between the lines, it looks like the teams responsible for core EVE are hard at work to clean up the spaghetti code mess they've built up until recently. So you can't blame them for not shitting out tons of new features or fixing longstanding issues and niggles that they intend to do away with anyway during the replumbing.

[Thrawn]

Cripes this thing is terrible, that the portrait photos end up looking terrible make it even worse.

Maybe I'll go for the "I had a stroke" look.

[Kageru]

Doesn't matter how many more steps they take when they are on the wrong path. None of this makes Eve a better game and god knows there's a billion things that could be added to make it more fun with the development effort they are wasting.

Because there's only one development team working sequentially on single features. Especially since it's tech being developed anyway, EVE or not. You do know that they're working on another MMO using exactly that tech, don't you?

Reading between the lines, it looks like the teams responsible for core EVE are hard at work to clean up the spaghetti code mess they've built up until recently. So you can't blame them for not shitting out tons of new features or fixing longstanding issues and niggles that they intend to do away with anyway during the replumbing.

No. They have a decent sized team (when a dev gave team numbers) working on trying to hammer the spagetti into a shape where it wasn't laggy compared to what they used to be capable of, one team (eg 4-5 people) working on eve-gate and one team on PvE content (ie. incursions). That puts Eve, the spaceships game, having about the same developer momentum as a near dead game like vanguard or fallen earth.

I'm also pretty sure Eve-gate is another back-port of WoD content. I mean those vampires have to plan their gatherings and social maneuvering.

The character editor is characterless. Tried to make my alt not look stoned and failed, plus *all* the appearance options are identical even though she's Minmatar as opposed to Caldari (though she had Asian eyes and the Achura did not, go figure).

[TripleDES]

No. They have a decent sized team (when a dev gave team numbers) working on trying to hammer the spagetti into a shape where it wasn't laggy compared to what they used to be capable of, one team (eg 4-5 people) working on eve-gate and one team on PvE content (ie. incursions). That puts Eve, the spaceships game, having about the same developer momentum as a near dead game like vanguard or fallen earth.

Better a clean up and no features now than everything becoming unpredictable and exploitable like crap, requiring you to tiptoe around issues to avoid GM wrath, because no one knows what the code does anymore.

[IainC]

They have a large teamworking on a project called Carbon which is kind of their new MMO production and pipeline middleware which will be used for all of their current and future products. It's considered a separate project within CCP along with DUST514, Eve and WoD. There's a dev blog about it here.

[Endie]

I like the character creator, and everywhere from Kugu to illum the reaction is pretty good.

How could it not be?  I mean:

[SurfD]

Who wants a Mustache Ride!     

[Surlyboi]

Apparently the guy on the left just got one. 

[Sir T]

[Trouble]

 

[Gets]

"If Butch goes to Scalding Pass, I want a thukker waiting in a can of trit ready to pop a cap in his ass."