Star Gates

Kona123 · Post by **Kona123** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:15 am

Well, iv heard a lot of people complain about stargates being to small, and I think so to. Its very easy to fly right by them, and sometimes they are hard to see, but if they were like EVEs stargates, then they would be very easy to see and almost inpossible to miss. The ones in EE look like very big gate/tunnle things.

lucifer1101 · Post by **lucifer1101** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:43 am

this is sort of like a hidden quest seek out and find the stargates. there is nothing wrong with them

Kona123 · Post by **Kona123** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:33 pm

Well its very annoying when your trying to trade and it takes 5 minutess just to locate the thing, then not going by its a challenge. The sometimes just getting into it.

VDZ · Post by **VDZ** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:48 pm

Yeah, stargates should stay as they are - they're great this way.

catalpa7 · Post by **catalpa7** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:30 pm

Auto pilot helps alot.

Kona123 · Post by **Kona123** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:35 pm

The only thing with auto pilot is that it stops completly to turn, and sometimes in turns very slowly.

lensman · Post by **lensman** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:00 am

I the sandgroper have not got auto pilot. I may get one some day.

Kona123 my advice to you is learn to use the blue triangle, distance to object, time to object and the cross hairs.

lucifer1101 · Post by **lucifer1101** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:03 am

we all have done it this way. get used to it its good the way it is it cant get much better without time and the devs dont have all the time in the world

Kona123 · Post by **Kona123** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:10 am

I do use the arrow and blue dot. Its just that even if im going right towrd it, its very easy to pass. Everytime I go to it I pass it by about 30 distances. But noone elts seems to mind, so I geuss I wont complain.

lucifer1101 · Post by **lucifer1101** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:12 am

just get close to it then slow down its very simple although i first went through one at max speed (i was lucky to see it)
p.s. u can target it press f5 and it should be in the map somewhere.

Kona123 · Post by **Kona123** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:07 am

I know, I do all that, its just kinda annoying, because my screen is dark and I cant see it, so then I pass it, or I go beside it or something.

lucifer1101 · Post by **lucifer1101** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:38 pm

well then lets just say HEY FOOLI could u plz make the stargates a little bit mor colorfull so that we can see them fromm about 100 distance

VDZ · Post by **VDZ** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:16 pm

Adjust your monitor's brightness setting.

lensman · Post by **lensman** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:16 pm

This will depend on what type of monitor he has. I have used one of the new monitors and you could not ajust the brightness setting. The screen was always dark and very hard to see anything in space. If he is using one of these new monitors then I know were he's coming from.

Post by **Fooli** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:12 pm

Part of the problem is that I have a staggeringly bright Dell 24 inch LCD, so what looks invisible to some people (especially if you're using an oldish CRT monitor) actually looks quite bright to me. I'll come up with something a bit brighter for the stargate. And maybe one day mit'll give us a gamma control..

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zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:02 pm

fooli, why not make a futuristic model to use as the stargate? something like from the tv series stargate sg1.

Post by **Fooli** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:07 pm

Um, you mean like the futuristic stargate model that's already floating around in space?

/confused :)
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zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:52 pm

ahh, nevermind then, thats what i get for not playing space

i was thinking that it was hard for people to find them because it was a sprite ring.

so...why not just make the model larger?

anybody could do this client side aswell to make it easier for them to see.

Post by **Fooli** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:18 pm

Because whenever I send mit an updated model he always "forgets" to include it in the install :)

A lot of space stuff is scaled really strangely (another thing to fix on the long-term to-do list). When I make stuff I guestimate the size relatiive to other stuff, but then mit just changes it cos for some reason he decided that Things Are Smaller In Space. The stargate is currently 17ft high. The space station model is actually a lot smaller than most of the ships that dock in it. It makes little sense, so blame mit and whiskey :)

Anyway, I think the stargate could be a bit bigger, and the texture a bit brighter. Ideally, as I've said before, it'd have some sort of funky plasma effect glowing in the middle. But it's not really that hard to find: with an autopilot, you end up a few seconds travel from it, and all you have to do is move forwards..

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lucifer1101 · Post by **lucifer1101** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:53 pm

excellent! i hope mit sees this and may try to correct something that most likely isnt working