CCP working on EVE ship spinning patch

Incarna haters rejoice! OK, maybe rejoice is too strong a word, but surely the return of ship spinning is worth a smile or two, amirite?

Today's second piece of EVE Online news comes courtesy of Torfi Frans Olafsson's latest blog post. In it, he mentions how CCP is rethinking its captain's quarters design and working toward reimplementing the ability for bored pod pilots to rotate their cameras around their active ship while docked. The ability disappeared with the introduction of full-body avatars in last summer's Incarna expansion, and Olafsson says that soon "you will simply be able to board and unboard your ship, toggling between captain's quarters and ship spinning mode."

Incarna's hefty graphical requirements have also inconvenienced players logging in via "craptop" portable computers that lack gaming-quality hardware, and the post says that fixes for this are on the way as well. Finally, there are a few blurbs about improvements to captain's quarters shaders and new turret graphics. Read all about it at the official EVE website.

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and apparently they will be re-doing the cyno graphics as well,hopefully its reminiscent of the old "ride the lightning" cyno

@(Unverified) This is good news. Now I hope they will listen in regards to their micro transactions store. I want to get back to being in love with CCP. I miss her and will not return until this over priced issue is fixed. And to be honest why dont they just do away with it for player crafted vanity items? We need marriage counselling :)

"The original UI functionality is scheduled to be retained. Rather than a checkbox in the escape menu, you will simply be able to board and unboard your ship, toggling between Captain‘s Quarters and Ship Spinning mode. Your client will remember your last choice, so if you left your station while boarded, you will be boarded the next time you find yourself in a station and vice versa."

This sounds perfect and I'm glad to hear them listening to their community on this one.

Wish a Eve replacement game would come out. I'm sorry, but I wanted to love this game, but it ponders to a select taste. The sandbox does not work, it's boring, so parts of the game have to much depth, and others don't have enough. The skill learning system is by far the worst element of this game, it doesn't allow players to play at their own pace, and it's a mindless time table.

@(Unverified)

Maybe one of the reasons EVE is still going strong after 8 years is because of those very things you listed above. And the sandbox does work, quite well in fact.

@(Unverified) "The skill learning system is by far the worst element of this game, it doesn't allow players to play at their own pace, and it's a mindless time table."

But EvE is not about learning skills and grinding levels like it is in WoW or other such mmo's... Yes skills are important but they are really just more of a re-requisite for things, and dont really have much effect on the total overall game (Eg: A shit fit ship is still a shit fit ship even if you max ALL your skills).

Also with regards to the sandbox being boring. No it isn't, it's a sandbox. What I assume you want is the illusion of a sandbox with lots of fun things to do inside of it (Eg: a mindless "funbox"). If you can't find fun in EvE then you're not looking or trying hard enough. Try scamming someone or blowing the shit out of them when they least expect it...

@(Unverified)
I couldn't agree more.

I've tried, more then once, to get into this game... find things I love every time and find things I absolutely hate.

The skill progression system is really one of the biggest flaws. As is the entire sovereignty system and the Null Sec / Low Sec / High Sec divide.

Unfortunately, those two are pretty much the biggest systems in the game... oops.

@OmegaTwig Pre-req not Re-Req... they need an edit feature...

@(Unverified)

Reading what you said got me thinking about something i heard Ricky Gervais say in one of his podcasts a while back: "it's an aquired taste, and the best things are an aquired taste". I think this is the best way you can describe EVE. Sadly, i'm one of the people that simply couldn't aquire said taste, and i really hate that. The fact that you don't see things the same way means you probably shouldn't try to play games like this, ever (no offense).

@heerobya

You see skills as a progression, there is your first problem. A sandbox game is not a linear game.

Whats wrong with the sov system? Thousands of people take part in it in large groups, seems like the whole point to me. Most of the complaints come from people who want to soloplay or play as a small party. Its an MMO why shouldn't the biggest most organized groups reign?

If you get dropped into a large cage with 50,000 people and you want to go it alone then that's really a personal issue isn't it?

@Khai mann

Eve is not going strong, it's been lossing subs for the last three patches, that data was found here on Massively.

@heerobya

I pretty much disagree, strongly, with everything in your post, and in the Unverified post. The very things you dislike are some of the very things that are good about EVE. To each his own, I guess, but I hope that neither you nor Unverified are given any power to make gameplay decisions for EVE, ever.

Now it's time to head over to the EVE forums to see what the "I-want-ship-spinning-back" trolls are complaining about now. Because, instead of leaving the game, they most certainly will quickly find something else to complain about.

@Boardwalker

Only to a select few that still play. New players come and go way to fast, the game is not user friendly. The arguement long time Eve players make is like saying the Titantic os a great ship still. The game could be great, having subs in the millions instead of a few thousand.

@(Unverified) "The skill learning system is by far the worst element of this game, it doesn't allow players to play at their own pace, and it's a mindless time table."

I don't understand this. The game separates out skills from playing the game. You can (and should) be training skills 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So regardless of how much or how little you play, you'll always be training up. That allows you to focus on the rest of the game without being tied to "grinding levels."

@(Unverified)

Because all games should be themepark games

Number One, make it so...

@(Unverified)

"Only to a select few that still play.". I logged in the other day with 46K other people. That's more than a "few".

@(Unverified) New players come and go because EVE doesn't try to cater to everyone (ala WoW), it knows it's niche and sticks with it. Despite it losing some subs from Incarna, all it'll take is a good expansion (this ship spinning is only the first step, they're adding a new font which players have been wanting for years and all the null-sec revamps coming) to win most of those players back. You can't say it's doing bad, it's got an average of 35k players online at once, and that's after the bad rep they got.

If they managed to do that, I'm sure many vets would come back. That would actually be the best part of the whole Incarna expansion :)

so rumor is there is another "big" announcement coming tomorrow as well,and did anyone else notice the new font?
if they announce ship trails or the ability to completely shut off CQ and have old ui back i will resub all 4 of my accounts.

@(Unverified)

New font was confirmed a bit after the dev blog, I think in the forum somewhere.

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