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This was pretty much the content of my first posting on the Test Forums over a month ago. Day 1. I was appaled. I went further with it seemed like a new team trying to impress the boss and not the customers. Esp after last summer.

Not ONE THING changed in over 30 days. I'm still astonished it's a reality on TQ.

It's a stretch....but anything can make sense at this point. certainly more rational than the logic and processes that we have seen displayed today. This is a messy, horrible autopsy after being DOA.

Pros:
-Filter is awesome.
-Loving the extra features like estimated cost.
-Love the 'style' of the interface, (how it shows total value, how it shows total space, the current parts selected size, etc).

Cons:
-Loading times. It takes triple or more the time now to load up a hanger. Why is this? Is it because of all the guns and such? As I said, hide them until requested in a tab. This would make a huge improvement if just necessities were shown first. EVERYTHING except what is currently selected should not be drop-downed unless I order it too when starting.
-Not being able to get to a 'simplified' window easy (Pre-inferno style windows), without having to go the unified interface (Oh the lag!) Once you get the simplified window open through CTRL-clicking, simplified windows vanishing when you jump or dock, making it annoying for mining and cargo running.

Suggestions
-Everything in one area works great but needs some special filters for certain things, like guns should be 'pre-hidden' or in a tab that is closed and does not load until it's actually clicked to save loading time. Right now they make a COMPLETE mess of your PoS listings. Hard to navigate different modules with. Normally end up actually closing the Unified inventory and selecting the next item. which is a time waster.
-You should be able to disable or make it so making the individual windows are easier to access rather then having to open up a slow unified window and CTRL-clicking the window you want to become a individual window. Maybe holding down CTRL and selecting for example, your cargo bay, or a menu item like 'Open Drone Bay', 'Open Ship Maintenance Array' etc would open up without the extra stuff, a plain window, like it originally was. Be nice though to be able to at least toggle to do this by default or not though.

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At the moment it is not a PoS friendly system, so it does need a bit of work to be pleasing again. While I support the new features, some of the old features worked well, so there should be some sort of blend but being able to access both old/new styles. A simple interface for basic things, and a complex one for when you actually want to sit down and manage. There is no time management in trying to load a 20 second interface when time is crucial, specially if a buddy is being attacked and you need to swap ships, those 20 seconds can make or break everything.


Aside from this, the rest of what I've seen added looks great. I love the Amarr ships, and the missiles are something I've waited for ages on. The wardec and killmails are also something that was a nice touch as well. ;)

Opened EVE tonight expecting to find something interesting, should have known better really, went off to do some mining as is my want, only to find the hangars now need a cascade of clicking to get into were I want to work on the Rorqual, Hmmm just as bad in the Assembly array, ok lets see how this works in practice.

Mine a few units, load to transport, run to array single click opens the last opened hangar, drop ore into hangar rinse and repeat, simplicity, easy to work with quick and efficient.

But hey what is this, along comes 'Inferno' and CCP Idiot has his crayons out again.

Mine a few units, load to transport, ooops sorry cant do that first have to run through the open the right hangar sequence as per CCP Idiot's new all singing and dancing hangar inventory selection screen, Ok done that load transport, restart mining laser again as now the hulks hold are full due the the extraordinary length of time the hangar inventory screen took to load and they have all shut off mining, done that fly to array, now what. Oh yer gotta click to open the Rorqual's hangar inventory screen and wait for that to load, then select the right hangar, then shift click the Array and do the same there all before I can dump ore into the correct array hangar.

Right I feel this is a total waste of time, not one bit user friendly, has no useful function in this game at all in the above context so I go looking for the CCP Idiot responsible for this utter rubbish.

Oh it's you again, well lets hope when they do start chopping heads at CCP they make a special effort to ensure yours is one of the first and then erase everything you have done from the game.

Bloody fool.

Signed.


This, too. It takes as much as 5 times more time to arrange corp hangars, now.
Especially since inventory don't remember column settings.

And it's still impossible to sort items by "Type" in list or detailed mode.

My main was one of those posting on Sisi Forum. Yes, I feel rather insulted. Tippia is probably REAL po'd doing all that video work and everything about it.

It was all ignored. Not one change in over a month from Day 1.

And people question why I quit ?? Welp, that was in motion before h'geddon even so nothing to do with that at all. THIS though was the Proverbial Straw.

From the Unified Window Devblog:


As we mentioned before, we are on a crusade against the amount of open windows it requires to pull off any given operation in EVE. A little research, as well as our personal experience, made it clear that the inventory UI was, and to this date is, a big offender in that context.

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This is the entire reasoning behind making the Unified Window.

I don't recall anyone ever complaining about their being too many windows in the game.

I (think) I like the direction Unified Inventory (UI) is going, once yall fix the "open on every single session change" and "remembering window position".

But I would really love to see the m3 used (or free space; toggle option?) next to the container / hold / bay / etc in the UI Index pane. If the number ends up being too long, calculated as a decimal or percent would be fine too. I'd give UI a +1 if it included this.

Being able to collapse the "estimated value" section would be spiffy too (or remove it and summon it on demand from elsewhere). For most containers I don't care to see this.

EDIT: I also just noticed dropping onto tabs doesn't work as it used to:
I shift-clicked two containers to get them in separate windows (Orca cargo hold and ore hold). I drop one of the new windows onto the other so they are now tabbed in a single window. I used to be able to drag items from the active tab and drop directly onto the tab of the other container in the window (moving from cargo/corp hangar to ore hold).

It'd have been nice if you engaged in that mutilitation of the assets window instead of my ship's cargo bay. I leave that open, in the lower left corner, in a short wide window with the log and chats. Now it's barely big enough to see more than a few items in the cargo at a time.

And when are blueprint copies getting a different name or group instead of a new picture? I always use text, not graphics, for my inventories.

Had to confirm.... I can say with a heavy heart that trying to loot and salvage after a mission is now officially an ordeal.

What was once quick, easy, and debatably fun extra cash cleaning up after my level 4's in a Noctis is now slow, frustrating, and unfun.

Furthermore, trying to drag several hundred items from a cargo hold to the item hanger, stacking, sorting, and reprocessing things makes me wish I could do without inventory all together. Just... man. I'm sad.

Perhaps that is the true goal of the unified inventory experiment... to make me want to give away my 6 billion m3 of crap I've stockpiled in my hanger over the years and make me fly ships that use no ammo, never salvages or loots, and never has to swap out equipment.