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Drone UI Interface
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Intaki Kauyon
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-10-23 21:30:51 UTC
While you are face lifting the combat UI, which looks amazing, how about that drone menu?
I’m surprise with all the updates to the UI lately that we still haven’t seen planned progress to drone control. (or have I missed it?) We still have this little drop down box, where we control everything VIA right click. And we use hot keys for Attack and Return.

Who do I have to send a fruit basket to, to convince the UI team to just touch up the drone controls while they are in there? Everything else is looking better, improving, is becoming more intuitive with picture buttons and circular interfacing. But drone control is still this crappy little window we have just grown used to.

I spent a good 10 minutes teaching a new player (real life friend) how drones work. His answer in the end: I’m just going to train missile ships. This is ****.

I’m just saying. While you are there. You know. Touch it up.
If nothing else, you are revamping frigs and dessies to be actual drone boats on Gall and Amarr now. It’s no longer a veteran player thing to learn drones. It’s now a new player problem. Like first day of play learning experience. This needs a quick upgrade.
Baroness Vulna
Armada vi Vulnezia
#2 - 2012-10-23 23:21:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Baroness Vulna
One of the most needed updates in EVE!

/signed

I also talked about this in my recent thread. I hope CCP is listening and they can come up with ways to give us more streamlined controls for drones. I see drone ships becoming less and less used as everything else is getting updates in patch's but poor drones still.... are clunky.

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Mirima Thurander
#3 - 2012-10-23 23:35:20 UTC
Make drones smarter. Less likely to fly right at the target so there harder to pick off.

All automated intel should be removed from the game including Instant local/jumps/kills/cynos for all systems/regions.Eve should report nothing like this to the client/3rd party software.Intel should not be force fed to players. Player skill and iniative should be the sources of intel.
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#4 - 2012-10-24 07:01:36 UTC
What I hate most is the bugged collapse/expand behaviour of drone groups. The outgoing drones don't expand, but incoming ones do :S

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Seranova Farreach
Biomass Negative
#5 - 2012-10-24 08:49:03 UTC
Mirima Thurander wrote:
Make drones smarter. Less likely to fly right at the target so there harder to pick off.

make them fly liek missles.. all squirmy and evasive!

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Intaki Kauyon
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-10-24 16:40:01 UTC
Drone intelligence is a different topic. This just about pilots controlling them and the interface about which.