Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think we can all agree that managing the training queues of multiple characters on the same account is a bit of a pain in the ass. For example, if I want to train something on one character that I'm currently logged into but another on the same account is already training, I have to quit EVE, launch EVE again on the same account, pause training on the other character, quit EVE, launch EVE yet again on that same account, and start training on the first character. Another issue that comes to mind is if one character is finishing the last skill you wish to train - you can't queue up skills for another character to train until that first character's skill queue runs out.

I'm proposing that EVE adds methods to the interface which would allow managing of skill queues for any character in the account, from any character in the account. Let's say my account has characters A, B, and C. The account-wide skill queue would allow me to pause character A's training from character B and C for example, as well as from itself of course. Additionally the account-wide queue would allow you to queue skills across multiple characters. For example if character A is finishing a skill and I want to switch to training character B, the account-wide queue would allow me to add a skill on character B to start training once the skill on character A is complete, assuming of course that the skill on character A is complete within 24 hours.

On a similar note, allow characters to inject and queue skills whose prerequisites finish within 24 hours, but if that skill or any of its prerequisites are removed from the queue or lost that skillbook gets placed into the inventory location where it was injected from. If that inventory location no longer exists (say, you injected it from cargo and the ship was blown up/repackaged/etc.) and you try to de-inject the skill, then the skillbook gets destroyed. This would prevent people from injecting skillbooks just to move them. Alternatively you could allow people to inject skillbooks with prerequisites that finish in 24 hours but force them to commit to that skill queue with no changes until the prerequisites finish.

Yeah, I think really the only holdup is the programming complexity. There's no gameplay or balance reason I can think of not to do this.

I'm going to say no, because you play as a character not an account... Having multiple accounts is your problem, deal with it.

The interface for this could be easy enough to do. Have a fourth option in the character selection screen that's just "skill queue". Click it, and then along the left side of the screen you get portraits for your up to 3 characters. Click on one to access the skills they currently have injected, scroll through the list, add it to the training queue (like it currently is). Then, click on another character, add more skills, etc.

I keep hearing that the code to this game is ancient and archaic. But if the game can detect and prevent people from popping up multiple training queues, then it already has most of the database-checking and account access coding required to make this happen. This should be just a simple change from accessing skill queues from the selection screen rather than inside an individual character in the game. The queue itself would still work basically the same.

+1

Honestly give us a "Log out to charachter selection menu" button and im 110% content, even if it only shaves a few seconds off the whole ordeal.