The infamous avatar update....

Still nothing....

 

Wait!!!First Screen shot from Arkadiaforum?

 

yeh it could be concept art or a high poly version of the original armour design.

 

still find it weird there isn't even a preview yet. Makes me suspicious MA are planning on dropping a "entropia is dynamic" clanger. For example, as part of the ava update totally redoing how clothes and armour can be made/customised. For example it would be a real step forward to allow custom designs maybe a bit like the face masks. This would obviously deal a blow to the existing economy for these items but be a good step forward for the game and the future crafting economy/profession.

Just a thought

Wistrel

PS whatever happens I expect the ava update to at least provide MA with a way to do pets and let us sit/lie down again, even if it isn't straight away. Hopefully will allow some richer animation and custom avatar movements too. I know ND at least wanted some sort of dancing thing set up.

 

not played apb but I saw vids of the nice ava creation. they have nice stuff in eve too but I don't think they have the same open world situation we have. ie they probably only ever have a few avas in scene at any one time. The reason I think we can't have mega detailed avas yet in an MMO situation is that the system has to cope with rendering lots of them at once.

 

need to go to the howling space mine some time.... I wonder... when MA make these things what do they THINK they will be used for? clearly they don't but I always assume there is a reason initially planned at least.

 

I know what you mean. I think the thing is that cool stuff needs to be cool and exclusive but also affordable. ie its good that rarer exclusive items cost more but it should still be realistic. We don't want new players running round in oranges cause clothes cost too much. At the same time we don't want the really cool clothes to be too cheap.

What bugs me is crap clothes that cost a lot simply cause of the items needed to make them being expensive. Clothes should be expensive cause they are cool not cause of a recipe that is independent of appearance. Ok I know "cool" is a personal thing but there are certain things people agree on generally.

Ultimately its a bit of a restriction on freedom of expression/design that black costs so much.... but I don't know what the solution is. The only one I can think of is a slow over time change to a more flexible design/manufacture system. I don't even know what that would be though.

An interesting change from the past was vu9. They changed the appearance of everything then and some things got more expensive, others fell out of use/popularity. The reason for this was cause of the massive change in appearance of certain items. An item that didn't look cool before but suddenly did post vu9 went up, the ones that got worse went down.