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EVE Online: Accessing Old Portraits

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
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CCP Purple Tentacle has posted a new blog on the official EVE Online site. EVE devs will be releasing Incursion later today and with it's arrival, the old portraits that represented players will be removed from the game. Players will need to create new avatars. But players become attached to portraits and Purple Tentacle has them covered: A new database of all the old character portraits has been created that players can access to revisit old faces!

As most of you already know, on Tuesday we are releasing Incursion, which comes with a brand new avatar creation system. All the old portraits will be removed from the game and you will have to create new portraits for all your characters. I have spent considerable time playing with the new avatar creator and it is absolutely awesome. It is superior to the old one in every aspect, and no matter how many portraits I create with it, I just cannot get bored of it. However, no matter how cool it is, I figured that it would still feel like a loss to see my old face, the one I was tied to for many years, being flushed down the drain just like that. These old faces served their purpose. They represented us for over seven years, and they deserve to survive somewhere. So, back in December I requested a dedicated box and set it up to start crawling through all your seven million characters, rendering their portraits one by one and saving them in a nice and homey database. The box was rendering nonstop throughout Christmas and New Year's Eve and, despite being hit by a major disaster and having to restart the whole process at half time, it managed to finish on time.

Purple Tentacle has step-by-step instructions on how to access the old portrait server so be sure to head here to read up on it. Now THAT'S customer service!

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Comments

  • ZeroBoogieZeroBoogie Member Posts: 17

    Well thank you Purple Tentacle, i will look it up to keep my old characters as souvenirs, but i cant wait to see the new Avatar creator tool, it looks awesome.

     

    ZeroBoogie (SackBoy23 in EvE Online)

    It's My Way Or The Highway...

  • cosycosy Member UncommonPosts: 3,228
    the concept of old amarr was much better like the new amarr

    BestSigEver :P
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  • DevilXaphanDevilXaphan Member UncommonPosts: 1,144

    Played with the new character creation tool on the test server and it was well developed but good to see CCP looking out for the customers.

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  • QSatuQSatu Member UncommonPosts: 1,796

    I just tried it and it's incredibly easy to use. So much better then sliders everywhere.

  • CujoSWAoACujoSWAoA Member UncommonPosts: 1,781

    Such a level headed company.

  • eric_w66eric_w66 Member UncommonPosts: 1,006

    The new char generator makes me wish two things:

     

    1) World of Darkness was coming out soon.

    2) More options! For as long as its been in development, the rather limited # of choices, especially for clothes/colors/hair styles is depressing.

  • svart_lotussvart_lotus Member Posts: 20

    Originally posted by eric_w66

    2) More options! For as long as its been in development, the rather limited # of choices, especially for clothes/colors/hair styles is depressing.


     

    There will be more clothes to chose from when they release walk in stations. This is just the "starter clothes" from what i understand.

    I agree with you on hairstyles though, otherwise its awsome.

    Lazy programers, give us some long hair! :D

    GG

  • DerebusDerebus Member Posts: 54

    I agree on the lack of options, but i got new feeling towards Eve, a good one ;)

    Future: WoD, SWTOR, Arche Age, Tera (maybe), GW2.
    Present: None.
    Past: Eve, RIFT, UO, bunch of F2P crap.

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