EVE New Citizens Q&A

Did they change the dang interface againe? This thing is impossible to work. I just want a dam station inventory button. I just want to click on my ship to open the inventory. Every time they "improve' the inerface it gets 10 times harder to use... Is there a way to go back to the old way? Dam this is annoying.

Why does the inventory open every time I jump? This is annoying.

Let me take a stab at explaining the new UI to you. Everything that you own in a certain place is in the left sidebar, where it will show menus and submenus to categorize your stuff.

• In a station, each of your ships is listed separately and there is no menu header for "Ships." To get stuff from a ship, just click on its tab and drag stuff into the tab that you want to put it. Same for everything else, pretty simple.


• Clicking on one item and then shift-clicking on another item will select those two items and everything in between them. Let's say I've got a Nova Light Missile, Inferno Rocket, EMP M, and Antimatter Charge S I want to collect. If I shift-clicked on the Light Missile and the Antimatter Charge, it would highlight everything.


• Control-clicking highlights an item each time you click, but does not un-highlight your old items when you click.


• Not quite sure why your inventory keeps appearing when you jump through gates. I don't think that's happening to me, but I haven't been through too many gates today, just been sitting around mining.

And no, you can't go back to the old inventory.

Just realized that you're in my alliance, although I'm afraid I don't know you. So hey!

Yeah, but it's one of the only ways to get CCP to hear its players. Not that I agree with Iron; I like the new UI. But complaining on the forums can get you somewhere if enough people do it.

Except this time it's just a few people repeating themselves a lot

Old habbits die hard and changes are the best thing haters can whine upon because it gives them something new to complain about.

Yes, there's still some bugs, but point me to one software that didn't have bugs when it's been released or had a major update.

The unified inventory feels fine for me, there's some things I wouldn't have done the same way but with the design mistakes I've seen mentionned, like SMA/Hangars for people leaving from a POS, ships with multiple cargo holds (corporate, ore), but these are so important they'll surely adjust soon.

I haven't experienced the opening on session change myself, but that'll surely be fixed soon as well.

Now I no longer need to open item hangar, mods container, ammo container, ships window, drone bay and cargo hold on top of the fitting window everytime I adjust my fit, even when tabbed I had to oppen all those everytime I docked in station, so it's a major improvement in my opinion. I can even gat rid of some containers because I can toss all my stuff in one and filter it when I need to find something, or select the low grade stuff I want to reprocess, the high grade stuff to sell, etc.

The only thing I wish they finally implemented, is a horizontal scrollbar, so I can finally use all the detailled lists without having to cover most of the screen by stretching a window, because I prefer the items displayed in detailled lists with amount, volume and meta levels visible rather than large icons with no informations because all small pulse lasers have the same visual and having several "show info" windows to compare items was much more of a pain in the a**.

As for the walking speed, I can't tell, the few times I'm in captain quarters is if I chat while docking and hit enter during session change right after ship hangar loads.

Use the Merge Ships & Items option under general options. This at least bring back the even older functionality of having item and ship tab under station services where they used to reside but was changed to off by default a few years ago.

Not an optimal solution as there are still load of bugs and other problems with the new inventory UI but still a huge improvement.

I agree partially with the OP.

The new system is **** at first to work with.

Dragging stuff around takes longer.
Yet if he actually played around with it you would have found you can open different things in multiple windows (aka the old way).

Shift-click or right click the hangar you want and you can open it in seperate window and drag and drop away.

Also new UI has a nice bar at the top which simulates your cargohold (used m3 / total m3) hovering your mission objective over your cargohold will virtually add it to it and show you if it fits or not.

So in general, it takes time to adapt to it (and that is EVE, changes are made and good players adapt to the changes) and after that it's a great improvement.