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Toobar Zoobar
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
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Posted - 2013.05.29 21:50:00 -
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An issue I am seeing, that i believe is contributing towards turning away potential new players and suppressing the sense of scale in the game, is the feeling of isolation and disconnection with the rest of new eden while playing through the game and in particular the transition between selecting a battle in your merc quarters and actually joining the battle in whatever part of the the galaxy its in. This is as a result of the feeling that the player is not really traveling across the solar systems. In EVE the process of moving to a new system several systems away sees that player passing through multiple jump gates, fly past many planets, encounter many other players and more than likely viewing the star map a few times.
In Dust none of this really exists. Sure every time you join a battle there is a very brief amount of time just before the game starts that you have the chance of having a quick glance of the planet and looking at what coordinates you have been seemingly TELEPORTED to (which i though wasn't supposed to be in EVE). And yes there is a star map and it is even possible to join a battle via the star map (unless you can't find a battle or all the battles you try to join are already full) that gives the position of where the battle your fighting in is.
But if a new player for instance trying this game out for the first time goes to the battle finder, joins a battle, the loading screen that follows will give no information of where the planet the player is joining the battle on is in new eden. Which is a shame. The loading screen could be the best and most convenient medium for communicating to the player where the region, solar system, planet and district the battle the player is joining is. At the moment there is not any of this, making them boring and resulting in a feeling that the player isn't really connected to eve online. There are next to no loading screens in EVE. wouldn't it be cool if CCP turned the loading screens in Dust in to something more interesting, for example, when joining a battle, if the loading screen instead of showing some artwork and some generic game play tips, instead was like a dynamic star map animation that started off with an overview of all of new eden highlighting your current position, then zoomed into what region your battle is based, then what system, then what planet with a highlighting of the the district that the battle is in and some pie charts of what corps control what percentage of the planet and what districts. |
Somin Krais
Dead Six Initiative
Lokun Listamenn
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Posted - 2013.05.29 23:21:00 -
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I see what you are getting at. A little more immersion could be nice for a bit, but I think that it would get overlooked --or asked to be removed due to possibly increasing the load times.
This may be a generalization, but I think most people who are playing dust just want to shoot people in the face --especially new players coming from other FPSs that have no notion of what EVE is or is about. These people probably want as little downtime between chances to shoot someone in the face as possible, and wouldn't care about movement, immersion, or lore. Again, your miles may vary and this may just be a poor generalization, but it's kinda what my gut is telling me.
That said, if the transition between merc quarters and warbarge could add a little more flavor to the game, without increasing load times, I would be all for it. |
Delta 749
Kestrel Reconnaissance
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Posted - 2013.05.29 23:25:00 -
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A little "Battle Field X on Planet X in System X" in the corner would be nice but the loading screens are fine as they are |
Darken-Sol
BIG BAD W0LVES
Eternal Syndicate
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Posted - 2013.05.29 23:30:00 -
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+1 if you can get them to put boobs on it. |
KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Seraphim Initiative.
CRONOS.
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Posted - 2013.05.30 03:40:00 -
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Location showed in loading screens would be nice. |
KOBLAKA1
Opus Arcana
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2013.05.30 03:53:00 -
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If it fixes getting stuck at the loading screen im down, but it'd prolly make ut worse so no for now imo |
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