Player Features and Ideas Discussion

People will be against it because apparently anything that makes EVE more convenient and user friendly for the majority of players is automatically a bad thing, I put said people on block these days because they have nothing useful to add to the discussion.

I support this idea :) I'd like very much for EVE to not be a pain in the arse to use.

The idea is originally mine.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=444795

But that will happen with your thread eventually, as almost always happens with good ideas, everyone generally agrees, and without the occasion for trolling the thread slips from the first page and dies. This is the place where good ideas die, you didn't know?

And if you aren't mapped for them, what then? Or you can't devote that much time because corp needs not FC5 but large energy turret to 5 and you're more than twenty days away? There are methods available to prevent botting on the web. Logging on the website serves that purpose, and it will be required.

BTW why botting the queue through the website would be a problem? What harm it can do if EveMon did that through the API, with special queue management API key?

I'm pretty sure that a bigger reason against it is that the skill system is set up in a specific way to interface with the Eve client and it would be very painful to mess with it to try to let a website touch it (on top of the exploitability). CCP is very reluctant (and rightly so) to touch legacy code like that without a very good reason. Code like that, where magic happens, is notoriously touchy and can mess up seemingly unrelated systems if you mess with it too much.

Yeah, I appreciate they want more activity, but regardless of what they want, you cannot force activity.

A lot of time, when I want to update my queue, I use a remote control program to make a remote PC log into EVE, and remote the character into swapping skills.

You may ask why, and that is simple: The EVE client doesn't play well with a lot of my business software, and having to restart my local system is too much of a pain in the bottom to fix it when I need just a skill bump.

Assuming I even had the time to play, which I don't on these occasions, the lag over this setup makes any kind of PvP a really bad idea.

Induced playing won't happen, you just annoy the players.

On a side note, I was recently reminded of a very similar idea by another thread, posted what sounds like a similar idea on my 'Skill Que Tweak' thread, and then discovered this one existed.
Judging by someone else's comments, they had the idea late last year as well.

Indeed. It has been mentioned iirc, but again it's about balance.

I def agree with this. I have been searching for this thread for a few days no, but since I'm in an oil right at the moment in the gulf it takes forever to pull u pages. For guys like us that work away from home for 28 days at time this would be a blessing. Especially since my atempt at teaching my fiancé how to loginto eve and change skills for me has been unsuccessful so far lol

I like that.... +1

Yea but how should a guy working on a closed network ever get logged in? How should a guy working offshore with limited bandwidth (fx it took me 20 mins to get to this post), ever get logged in? Im out half the year, which means half the training done. Im not asking for much, just a way to keep the training queue going while im out, they could make a web based skill trainer, OR they could make some kind of prolonged vakation queue up to 1 month at the time. That would be just as great for me, and other in my situation.

My EVE Client has been crashing lately and I still can't figure out why. This is another reason this would be useful.