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Agent listing in station info
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Dowlphin
V for Vision
#1 - 2013-10-22 02:42:28 UTC
Currently - as far as I know - if I want to find out whether a system/station has agents that are desirable to me, I have to open the universe map and then either use a very fickle and laggy casdaced mouseover menu or switch to agents display mode to see which agents there are. Can't we get a listing of the agents that are available on a station as a tab in the station info window?
That would make hauling more fun.
Jade III
Sebiestor Tribe
#2 - 2013-10-22 02:58:03 UTC
Dowlphin wrote:
Currently - as far as I know - if I want to find out whether a system/station has agents that are desirable to me, I have to open the universe map and then either use a very fickle and laggy casdaced mouseover menu or switch to agents display mode to see which agents there are. Can't we get a listing of the agents that are available on a station as a tab in the station info window?
That would make hauling more fun.



You do know that there is an Agent Finder right?

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Caldari 5
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. S.A.S
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#3 - 2013-10-22 03:24:20 UTC
Whilst I do agree with Jade for the Most part, Use the Agent Finder. I do also feel that the agents in a station should also be listed on the Show info for the station that they are in.
Sable Moran
Moran Light Industries
#4 - 2013-10-22 09:40:40 UTC
I case you really didn't know: http://www.eve-agents.com/

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Dowlphin
V for Vision
#5 - 2013-10-23 01:55:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Dowlphin
Obviously using a website or station interface to list all agents that meet certain criteria is much different than quick overview access to the agents that are in your system.
I was merely recommending a convenience improvement, since I instinctively keep opening the station info the check the agents there.
The agents-filtered universe map is very useful for a wider view of available agents, but the missing list in the station info just feels like a hole in the information chain, so to speak.

Thanks for pointing out the agent finder feature though. I just discovered it. That's at least useful for aiming at agents close to my current position and somewhat helpful for what I'm doing right now. ... The filter options are designed a bit unskillfully though.
Darian en Chasteaux
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-10-24 13:47:46 UTC
Greetings,

Even tho I am only 3 months into Eve or so, left several months ago and just restarted, I am starting to see the same bugs that I had when I left; it is time to make these things known to CCP so we can get them fixed.

There is some point of having more knowledge than you need and getting confused, but when you start getting nit-picky doing missions like running for NPC corps to gain LP for those corps and bonuses working for their 'factories' (I believe this is the case), you want to find all the agents you can.

I guess many or all of them recycle; meaning I didnt know or dont know that once you clear lvl 1 missions for a particular agent, those lvl 1 missions will be gone for about 3 months more or less and then may return but I am not sure on this; some clarification by older players in this regard would be nice.

I do have it on CCP that the faction Epic Arc Missions recycle every 3 months; whether thus applies to storylines, important storylines, and regular missions I dont know.

Agent location may even change I dont know; if and when they recycle; and I dont know if using the same agent gives any bonuses; and whether or not the same agent changes factions HAHA (probly not); or corps (again probly not).

The Agent Finder then seems only to be used as a GUIDE; it DOES NOT show all the agents in the region; to get them all or more of them you have to use the Star Map menu system as described above.

What I havnt done is compare the Agent Finder listings to the Star Map as well as to this site:

http://eve-agents.com

and whether or not the unlisted agents in the Agent Finder are listed on the website above.

The above website is used for finding Agents for many reasons!

Darian Cool
Dowlphin
V for Vision
#7 - 2013-10-25 02:26:04 UTC
Darian en Chasteaux wrote:

The Agent Finder then seems only to be used as a GUIDE; it DOES NOT show all the agents in the region; to get them all or more of them you have to use the Star Map menu system as described above.

I've used it a lot now, and it had plenty of agents in it. Might be difficult to actually find a case where an agent should be listed and is not.
Are you sure you used the filter options correctly?
Also, your posting is a bit thrown-together it seems. Can't say much about the other parts.


Darian en Chasteaux wrote:
Even tho I am only 3 months into Eve or so, left several months ago and just restarted, I am starting to see the same bugs that I had when I left; it is time to make these things known to CCP so we can get them fixed.

Same experience here, just that it includes even very apparent bugs, and replace "months" with "years". I've mostly given up on even reporting issues or recommending improvements, because apparently they're either not even read unless hundreds of players jump on it, or CCP doesn't assign the time to deal with the stuff anyway. So if there's no hope I might experience the fixing of an issue in the next few years, what motivation is there to even bother wasting any time on writing about it? If there is a will, things will be done. But apparently usability (as an example) doesn't have high priority. It's the same with many MMOs: Growing, new content, run for long-term, ... but kinda messy for all eternity.
And when they start using resources to make things worse, I'm REALLY losing hope.