EVE General Discussion

For the love of all that is holy, please, please, please stop station containers from defaulting to 'locked' and from reverting to 'locked' if I have to re-install Eve or play it from a different computer.

Also, tabbed inventory, or some way to organize would be great. Either that or let there be greater access to things in station containers. For example, rather than my having to have hundreds of bp's and all the minerals and materials sitting in a massive stack in my hangar, let me have them in a tab or container so that if I wanted to remotely start a production run I can, but when I dock I'm just seeing what I actually want to be looking at, rather than this mass of production stuff. That's just one example, but there are many others.

Edit: One other thing - Why must I wait 3 weeks to repackage a station container? Can we cut that out. Also, it seems that if you attempt to repackage it after, say, 2 weeks and 6 days, it resets the 3 week timer. This just seems unnecessary anad annoying.

Edit Again: Not necessarilly an inventory thing, but when I'm looking in the market under shuttles, just have all shuttles listed. I really don't want to have to look through "Caldari Shuttles", "Minmatar Shuttles" etc. just to try to find the cheapest shuttle.

Do you mean on a per-station/hangar level e.g. because you don't need a BPO division in a station where you will not store any BPOs?
You can already do this. Put any item view into list mode and rclick on the column heading bar — there you can turn on (and off) various columns, among them tech and meta level, and use those to sort.

Still, it would be nice if you use those sort options in icon view as well.

^^This and...

Some certain POS module and every station (regardless do they have corp office or not) should have special corporation hangar, where members could store their ships and cargo containers (not single items). They would have permission to take/access only their own items/ships by default, but some corporation role would give access to take/access all containers and some other corporation role would give access to take/access all ships in/from those special hangars. As a special feature any corp member could unlock their container/ship for "free to anyone to access/take" with right click menu. Removing container/ship from the hangar and putting it back would always lock the item for the current (sometimes new) owner again.

This would greatly improve possibilities for corp members to share/trade items in stations and improve the corp trader profession possibilities. It would also improve the POS security very great deal and take all those floating ships out from POS bubble by giving possibility for all corp members (even the new untrusted ones) to have access to some kind of ship/container storage facility inside the POS.

As a UI hint:
In stations you could add another tab to corp market deliveries window and use that for the purpose mentioned above. That way people wouldn't lose any current screen estate.

A tab or folder system instead of station containers.

A way to setup a folder/tab so that all incoming items goes to that folder. There is a problem currently on the items view that all stuff you are receiving for example from the market come to same location where you are trying to manage items. So when you try select multiple items the item list is cleared everytime you get a new item...

Allow fitting from continers(tabs/folders)

maximum number of items on a contract is a pita.

corp hangar cost way too much

allow stacking of identical BPC. there are zillion of them, everywhere, divided into dozen of containers. argh. <- bad bad game design here CCP

Also one huge wish that came into mind. This would help logistics every EVE player has to do and takes major time and effort. Allow setting up a folder/container/tab so that you can set count on items you wish there was on the location. For example you wanted to have 10-20 Warp Disruptors on the location allways. If the item count dropped below 10 then the system wuld automatically order more items so that the maximum number is reached, the item isn't ordered automatically but added to a list... you could then personally check the list and if there was enough stuff to be delivered you could deicide to order all those items with single press of a button. it would create a 'BUY and DELIVER' contract for them from maybe Jita to your location.

One thing I'll add for tabbed hangar windows - give us the ability to apply 'filters', that is, when we drag new items into our hangars, they're automatically sorted how we want them. For example, say we had a tab for high/med/low slot modules. When we drag in a bunch of stuff, the modules go to their corresponding tab. Another awesome improvement would be to add in filters for say only T2 and Meta 4+, so all the crap goes elsewhere.

Yes, and you don't need an Ore division in your carrier, and you don't need an Ammo division in your Rorqual, and besides, when you are the only pilot who has access to said ship, why wouldn't you have access to all the divisions?

…ooh, nasty brain flash.

Let's think big and expand that to have the option of finding “similar” modules (obviously, this would require a complete rewrite and rethink of the item classifications, and thus I unilaterally label it a trivial matter and expect it on TQ by tuesday ).

What if you could rclick on an item and select “Show similar”? You'd then be presented with the item list as normal, but with a slider on top that determines how similar things need to be. At maximum, Show Similar on a LSE II simply shows other LSE IIs. A notch down, it shows all large shield extenders. Yet another notch down and it shows shield extenders of all sizes. Next notch (just to make things even more difficult to implement) all shield mods that increase EHP. Next notch, all shield mods, regardless of function. Next notch, all mid-slot items.

Obivously, the massively tricky part would be to generate that “similarity” node tree and figure out a way to use it properly.

I am getting tired of having to deal with long lists of exactly the same items in my containers - several hundreds of the BPC from POS copying (since I can't maintain a POS all the time, I set it up and do thousands of copies and tear it down immediately after that) and from t2 BPCs invention.

so my wishes are -

1. implement stacking of BPC with the same parameters (runs, pe, me). this does not have to be system change, only display change - show several identical separate (unpackaged) items as a group. this should be displayed differently from the packaged stacked items to avoid confusion.
2. add list view columns for blueprints -- runs ('inf' for BPO), me, pe -- just like you can add 'meta lvl' column. Since its hard to select BPC for production - you need to check runs to make sure it's enough for the job.
3. Make it possible to see how many items you selected in the inventory (by holding shift + click) -- this may not be needed if stacking is implemented. otherwise I have to move selected to a new empty box to see how much items are there (in the title), which adds unneccessary server strain.

can't think of anything else right now ..

oh wait - inventory folders instead of containers would be nice but this probably counts as major system rewrite.

4. However, perhaps it's possible to create a special type of container - the 'rubber' container. It has no volume of its own (as long as it's empty) and has no limit on the amount or volume of items placed inside. However, all the items inside this container contribute to the volume of this container. this could be great improvement already!

5. make item damage (crystals, ships, modules, ...) visible in the detailed list view. another column selectable just like 'meta level' right now.

6. When dragging stacked item into a regular container, the maximum amount is pre-filled into the amount input box. However, when dragging into the corporate hangar (f.ex. of an Orca), it is not, and you have to guess and add by small piles. Make it work like with regular containers.

When creating Remote Manufacturing/Science jobs in another system, make contents update immediately after successfully creating a job.

This is due to the following usage pattern:

I bring materials and BPC for production with my hauling alt into a station with some free slots, contract it all to the manufacturing alt (which is not neccessarily just the materials for this particular job) who is located in another system, then that alt creates the job and has to contract the remaining materials and BPC to the next manufacturing alt (since more slots are available) or back to the hauler alt.

When I am trying to do that, I can't since the game says the items is no longer there. This is because the inventory in another system is not updated .. well maybe it can be accelerated for this particular case (that is, after creating a job that takes stuff from the inventory).