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Friday, September 2, 2011

New Engine Trails Incoming?

So next Monday EVE Online is finally getting its new forums. Well, assuming there isn’t yet another last minute retreat due to some security flaws or whatever. Anyway, one of the new features includes several background styles users can select. There’s one for each of the last three expansions (Incarna, Incursion and Trinity) as well as one for each of the four factions. I picked the Minmatar one almost instantly and noticed something interesting. On the left side there’s a small squad consisting of a Loki, two Stabbers and two Rifters:

forum-minmatar

Besides the nice (new?) Nebulae effect in the background there are some rather huge engine trails/fireballs visible. Now the question I’m asking is more or less obvious: Is this just some artistic impression or are we really getting these engine trails? The background image is clearly rendered and not taken directly from the game but everything looks as ingame – except the nebula in the background (new nebulae were annoucned during fanfest 2011) and the yet to be announced engine trails. They don’t match the style of some of the new engines (discussed here), but these are Caldari or Amarr after all. And to be honest, they don’t look that spectacular either. Anyway, I’m looking into the future a bit more curious…

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