I was always one to never care about graphics as long as I was having a good time.

I was well aware of this for a long time and figured it was going to be why we never got racial dropsuits. So, if you don't mind me asking, what changed that allowed CCP to add 5 new Dropsuit models in Uprising 1.8?

I wonder how they made all the other games on ps3 then...

I mean who the eff checks their mail mid combat anyways?

I always wonder why the RDV's engines aka the Flame plasma thing never shows up. All I see is the circle things below it but never the animation of the flame thing ? I really want to see it again. :D
Here the link to what I'm referring to The Caldari RDV


Since we aren't getting the model Tanks for Min and Amarr. Is it better to just reskin them and maybe release skins for tanks. I mean we have a ton of dropsuits with different looks so I think its time for vehicles to get some of that.

I'm very surprised of how Cool the Amarr and Minmatar look.

Let me put some Duct tape on my minmatar and make the Amarr tank ALL GOLD!!! and let it blind everyones eyes when it comes into contact with sun light.

Also can the quafe dropsuits get its shine back because now they don't have the "wow look."
But some of the players from the "community" complained of them being "oh its too shiny so tone it down" I'm like really >.>...

One thing that I just thought of is will the RDV's be reskinned aka

The Amarr one being color white and gold.

Minmatar one being Rusty dark brown/red

Gallente being a dark/light green color

I'm just saying.

That actually sounds like a good idea. If the devs could be able to reskin the tanks, they could do the same for the RDV. They could even do it to the rest of the vehicles in this game.

I wonder how they made all the other games on ps3 then...

Must be the job of...Illuminati!!

We have like:
Light x4, Medium x4, Heavy x4, HAV x2, Dropship x2, LAV x2.
Light weapons x10
Secondary x7
Heavy x2
Grenades
Remotes.

A total of 39 items + sockets. There must be something horribly wrong in this game and it's not the hardware.

The hardware definitely has its flaws, but i repeat, this time seriously, how does all the other companies made larger, stable games? Look at Fallout: the framerate is horrible sometimes, but somehow you understand it's almost asking too much for a ps3. Still they did it.

Edit:

Just read your post, and, yes mostly agree with that. Still, I'm sure there is something wrong with the game itself, that makes it so CPU-intensive. It may be a problem with certain sockets, with fittings and market, with variations, I simply don't know.

Reading your post made me think of a problem that used to have developers in the early ps3 days: code bloat. It may be understandable considering the inexistent experience on PS3 and the "heavily modified UE3" (moar line of code).

We can always get rid of some point less things.. LAV's, basic frames, commandos??

Look you and I both know we don't like things that are done half ass or quater mule or anything less than the best.

However we have to come to certain terms.

PS3 has only 256x2 mb of memory available to us; (unknown page file size but that's for on demand things like mail and whatnot for less than commonly called up resources not second to second demanded needs for animation.)

Now here's where things get a bit nasty a significant portion consumed (40%) by the PS3 OS itself.

SO 40% of 256 MB is about 102.4 MB

You want to know what else is 102.4 MB large?

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/007/8/f/soe_oberon_by_novafox-d4lkb73.jpg

Actually j/k; the raws of this picture is 1.2 gigs memory; features only 120 undo steps, 52 layers, doesn't even animate, interact, or do anything fancy; its nice to be able to save it as a JPG though but that cuts all the features out. Editing Software runs on 800mb; os+support at 2gb

So now keep that in mind right now.

Now for a revelation I have heard at fanfest that I think would not do any harm in revealing.

Guess which vehicle has been in the dust 514 since near closed beta client but never seen?

Amarr HAV? Nope
Amarr LAV? Nope
Amarr DS? Nope
Amarr MCC? Nope
Minmatar HAV? Nope
Minmatar LAV? Nope
Minmatar DS? Nope
Minmatar MCC? Nope
MTACs? you wished.
Speeders? in your dreams
VTOLS? I wished...
MAVs? Don't we all?

I can list a dozen more ideas but the point remains that the Gallente RDV which has been in the game for such a long time hasn't made a debute because of the simple fact we are out of memory.

People we hit the limits of the ps3. We hit it long time ago. Yes you can yell that maybe dust 514 is terribly put together that doesn't change the fact that in order to get new models in; the others will have to take a hit in looks; performance; appearance; and essentially all have to be remodeled again in order to fit.

Chopping an HAV in half will not magically give us the memory we need; hell in order to shove one new HAV in we have to chop the three to 1/10th most likely because this will cover the physics, animations (yes the HAVs animate); sound rules; and so much more.

The same exact reason why MAG characters couldn't be customized; they too hit that limit. Probably the very damn reason why you will never see planetside 2 on the ps3 because of not the sheer number of people the game could throw at it but rather the sheer number of possible LOOKS (and physics and sounds) people can throw at it.

Look I too want to see proper models for everything I really do; one of my largest gripes with the other game. However in the sake of name of fun; balance; content; and time management. These well done reskins will hold until the day we either figure out how to magically make everything cost less memory or we just suddenly get a whole lot more of it.

Hell if you guys knew what sort of things are missing from even the current models due to low memory...

We have like:
Light x4, Medium x4, Heavy x4, HAV x2, Dropship x2, LAV x2.
Light weapons x10
Secondary x7
Heavy x2
Grenades
Remotes.

A total of 39 items + sockets. There must be something horribly wrong in this game and it's not the hardware.

The hardware definitely has its flaws, but i repeat, this time seriously, how does all the other companies made larger, stable games? Look at Fallout: the framerate is horrible sometimes, but somehow you understand it's almost asking too much for a ps3. Still they did it.

Edit:

Just read your post, and, yes mostly agree with that. Still, I'm sure there is something wrong with the game itself, that makes it so CPU-intensive. It may be a problem with certain sockets, with fittings and market, with variations, I simply don't know.

Reading your post made me think of a problem that used to have developers in the early ps3 days: code bloat. It may be understandable considering the inexistent experience on PS3 and the "heavily modified UE3" (moar line of code).

Plus the 100s of different modules in all of the myriad ways they can be attached to and alter suits.

Plus the 100s of different supporting skills in their literal millions of possible combinations of varying effectiveness affecting every aspect from how we move, how much base damage we dole out with their varying resistances based on range, tank, and proficiency, and how we perceive others and are perceived on the minimap to name a few persistent skills, all of which are constantly being calculated for all 32 players.

There's more to it than you think kiddo, be happy we're finally getting parity that's at least color coded. Used to be that we just had two variants of the caldari assault, gallente scout, and amarr heavy that came in either armor or shield flavors.

"kiddo", the 100s different modules and supporting skills are not calculated in real time. And if they do, it just proves my point .