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Hi!

I'm a newbie here. This is my first toon. I enjoy playing 6 months for now, so I will tell you what I think about the game and the current patch.

Dear CCP designers:
1. Eve online is the best game I ever played. I'm going to stay here.
2. Eve online has the worst user interface I've ever seen, in aspect information capability.

A few words of explanation of the second statement:
EVE is the pretty old game. Most of the users on this forum really do know everything about the game mechanics, market and so on. They dont see that more information would be useful for new players. But for a beginner starting playing EVE is horror. This game cannot be played without asking the other players, checking the internet, reading forums. Most of items on the market is described poorly. There is a lot room for interpretations.
For example:
Skill Guided Missile Precision: Skill at precision missile homing. [....]
Skill Torpedos: Skill at handling and firing of torpedos. [...]
One of the first question I had: Does "Guided Missile Precision" works with Torpedos or not? What about Bombs? If this skill refers to the weapon group "Missiles" - it works, but on the other hand it may be limited only to the Light Missiles, Heavy Missiles, HAM and Cruise Missiles. It is not explained in the description. The solution is very easy - just add the another tab in the item "Supporting skills" and this will show which skills will enhance the properties of the item.

Second example (lack of information):
I salvaged something and got the salvage material. I can easy check its price on the market. But finding how can I use this material is very hard by searching in-game descriptions. I had to use external services like eve wiki, chruker to check usability many materials. The only materials which are nice described are planetary materials. Everyone final product can be tracked down to the raw materials, and from the raw materials to the most complex material. I assume that planetary interaction materials were added to the game like last ones, but this kind of production browser for rigs would be extremely useful for new players.

All these things enhance new player expirience. You touch completely unimportant things like exchanging "caldari state" with an icon of Caldari, exchanging check mark from green to blue, and so on. Better investment of your time work would be expanding the information base to this point, when eve-wiki would be completely unnecessary.

Anyway - thanks for the good job - creating such fantastic game.

Can you make signatures brighter http://i.imgur.com/vQ1hnhB.png ?

Are there no attribute boosters dropped like in the last blood raider event? Please say yes I can't handle the slow skill training in this game.

Great improvements overall, really happy with this patch!

Few points of praise:

• Scanning with the upgraded interface is a million times faster
• Data sites are worthwhile now
• Game visuals feel smoother when making fast movement (spinning and such), is this TAA?
• Market loads so nicely fast now

Few points of improvement/questions:

• Sigs in the new map really needs to be a tad brighter (those red dots are really hard to spot sometimes)
• Nebulae overlay on the stars look botched, blocky and unpleasant in general
• I cannot spot killmarks on my ships for the world, are these implemented already?
• When in the D-Scan window manually typing a AU distance loads a different filter which is confusing

Great stuff keep it up!

One last question: How long will it take for dust to appear?

Looks like a time for POS-relocation!

A NO name update release, where we have to use yet another website to see what we might get;

http://updates.eveonline.com/

Forgive for not touching this release for another week, with the legacy code and all, I'll be in Boston

Regards, a Freelancer

PS: I'm seeing changes to eve online that could be used to forward the new Eve Valkyrie to market.

I suppose it could be just me being stupid, but why are people complaining about new blueprints not being seeded properly, when the patch notes do NOT mention new blueprints ?

Can Command Processors be fit on the Command Destroyers? EFT seems to think not. They are pretty useless if they can only fit one link. If they cannot be fit please consider allowing at least 1 to be fit.

Answer: yes it can fit a command processor. That fact is stated in the attributes section for the command processor, however it is on a different line from the one where all the other ships are listed. This is probably why EFT missed it.

I don't get it how CCP manages to screw up sounds while updating the graphics. Best part is, this is not the first time this happens.

Also, who had the bright (literally) idea to change the Directional Scan cone / sphere colors to exactly the same as the probes spheres?? The signatures colors themself are crazy. I have a 20/20 vision and I'm not colorblind in any way and I still have to strain my eyes to see stuff in the scanning window. What the hell CCP? Also, all this spinning and flickering of the spheres... distracting and unnecessary.

And now, for some examples.

Old, was totally fine. Why was it changed?! http://puu.sh/lN40c/009ca3d704.jpg
Spot the signature... http://puu.sh/lO61u/d582ec93fb.jpg
Spot the arrows. X marks the spot. http://puu.sh/lO6nf/a567f5ec4d.jpg
Best one. Spot the signature. http://puu.sh/lOtco/8c77feccef.jpg

Overall the scanning UI has been borked big time. I loved doing exploration. Today, after seeing this, I literally thought to myself "time to quit this game like all the other friends I flown with, CCP does not desevre my time".

Thank you, and check your UI designers for colorblindess ASAP.

Does this release have a name?

"December Release" is kind of meh.

Is it really Parallax 1.11?