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At least this isn't a game breaking bug, but engine glow intensity seems to have been dimmed a lot. This means for most of my ships instead of a nice solid glow I can now see the much darker engine nozzle edges poking through the exhaust flames. IMO this makes the backsides of ships look hideous.

Also how come active ships are no longer shown in the hangar? There's streamlining, and then there's outright hiding information from the interface.

What exhaust used to look like
What I see now

Agree. Even grouping by type would suffice.

Finally, I've noticed that after jumping, there is a much longer delay in the time between clicking to warp to a new location and being able to activate any modules. Used to be I could click warp, and just before the "Warp Drive Active" I could activate. Now that delay is significantly longer.

I think that might be a good short term solution. Being able to rename structures and searching for them might be even better long term, but we'll talk options tomorrow morning and see what we can do.

Let me fix all three.

I'll respond by acknowledging that this is an issue and are actively working on a fix.

Currently every time I jump a gate the inventory window reaserts itself even though I've closed it.

Edit: Strange as it may seem the inventory box not reasert itself when jumping into a system with an Incursion active in it

…just remember to keep the former when you do the latter so you don't just replace functionality, but actually add some as well.

I don't know how you think we play the game.
But that doesn't work very well for general flying.

For capitals, this UI change is pretty much a game breaker.
I generates helluva lot more clicking, looking and guessing.

Cargo Hold, Fuel Bay, Corporate Hangar and Ship Maintenance Bay
We use these things, maybe not all of them on every op. But most of them.


In short, this new UI change to our item management is NOT saving us any clickes.
It's not well designed and the layout is pretty terrible.

At least give us the option of having Classic Windows.

OK, the UI-UI is finally on TQ, here are my concerns so far:

- The ship button disappeared, therefore the mosaic list of ships can't be found anymore, instead we have a tree with a difficult to read long text list (specially on large screens). I liked to have at a glimpse the looks of all my ships, now I feel like I'm searching them in the market. :/

- When looking for the ship button, I tried to reset the neocom in case of, and the items button vanished also ??? I cannot find it in the popup 'E' menu.
( * edit: it has been moved on top and renamed "inventory", nevermind * )

- The drones options in contextual menu has disappeared. Moreover, when no drones are present, the entry is sometimes not available in the inventory window, which forces you to use the fitting pannel to open the drones bay. I've closed and re-opened the inventory and the problem disappears. Maybe an init issue.

=> If you wanted to make ship contextual menus lighter, you should have removed CQ and Undock options instead, these are not related to the ship, rather to the current game state IMHO. It is longer to open the inventory and look for the ship than just right-clicking on the spinning view and select an option.

- When transferring objects between ships or the hangar, as expected it is very annoying if you try to use a single window: I just tried to transfer some ammo and had to try it twice because I was lost between 2 ships of same type and was unsure where I put them. So you finally have to either check all ships, or frenzy shift-click these and hope that you won't close them by accident (like I often do since the new Neocom system).


Not-UI related remarks:

- There's not only the login proxy's which is at heavy load, seems like the local and the chans are out of sync for some players of my corp.

Repeating this for importance.

There's nothing wrong with having a right-click menu with 15 options, provided they're all relevant to the context of the right-click and sorted into a suitably logical/intuitive order. Right-click -> do something is actually pretty efficient as an alternative to click object -> click button.

There's also nothing wrong with providing alternative routes to get to the same endpoint (which some of the missing right-click options were).

More options (for how to do something) is generally better than fewer options or just a single option.


Edit: If I right-click a file or folder in my Windows Explorer I get exactly 15 options in the menu. They're clearly and logically laid out in groups with breaks/space in-between so are all clearly visible and easily accessible. I'd say that menu is pretty good in terms of functionality as all the options are relevant to the object I right-clicked and provide quicker access to the individual functions than would otherwise be possible.

Another advantage of right-click -> do something is that the two clicks are relatively close together on the screen, so you don't have to move your mouse much in between them, even with 15 items in the menu.