EVE General Discussion

Psychologists identify four major reactions to significant changes in people's accustomed environment or routine activities:

Disengagement - Withdrawal, loss of initiative or interest, fear while hoping for the best, being physically present but mentally absent, loss of drive and commitment, marginal performance.

Dis-identification - Identity is threatened by change, loss of sense of mastery, dwelling on the "old" way of doing things, sadness and worry.

Disenchantment - negativity or anger, seeking support by forming coalitions, engaging in sabotage or backstabbing.

Disorientation - feeling lost and unsure, wasting energy figuring out "what" to do instead of "how" to do things, become detail-oriented, leave tasks until all "questions" are answered, feeling of losing touch with priorities, analyzing the change "to death".

(Thanks University of Pittsburgh Psych Department)


"Life is change. How it differs from the rocks." - Grace Slick -

We go through this every time. The devs try to refine their product that's some eight or nine years old now, incrementally to prevent crippling shock ravaging the masses. We get the same percentage of people overall reacting in one of the four above mentioned fashions every time. If you did a statisical check, you'd find with each change the same number of people post the same type of reaction...every time.

In the dreaded and unmentioned RL, it's likely change is met the same way by the same people in the same numbers. It's only natural. Move one stick of furniture and my border collie is suspicious for a week. He'll calm down, but months after he'll still sniff it as he walks by as if to say "this still isn't RIGHT."

What we should ask ourselves is are we reacting to what and how it was changed, or to the change itself? Most of us from many years of experience know you're unfamiliar with a key punching, 'puter procedure till you do it a few times, and before you know it, it's second nature. Sure as my Hurricane is under-insured, the same will happen with THIS change, as it has with all the OTHER changes.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it." - Every Redneck I've Ever Worked With -

It's true, sometimes people mess with things just to be messing with them (as we say in Alabama). Change for the sake of change is resisted and it's arguable - rightly so. The question then becomes, was the change necessary, or an improvement? I daresay so far, until we've all made the new keystrokes second nature, we can't really say. So, much criticism is a bit premature, and is likely a reaction to the change itself.

Over time we may find a change, or two, just weren't for the best. I'm sure the devs aren't so hard-headed as to ignore this. However, some people are enamored of their own work, and themselves resist change - especially if it involves reversing a change they thought was so brilliant to begin with. Such vanity isn't very helpful, but we can't know if this is presently the case until events unfold. This, too, will take time.

In the meanwhile, I just love watching us being ourselves. Don't you? The one sure change we can all agree on is - Be sure to change your underwear. You never know WHEN you might be hit by a bus.

I love change.

The new inventory isn't change for the better, however.

Vyl Vit, I have to be honest.

If I am hit by a bus, the state of my underwear will be the least of my worries.

I love change as well. I would love to see the new UI change into something useful and wanted by the majority.

Tal

The high functioning autistics around here are probably amused at watching everybody have hissy fits over all the little changes.

I for 1 love the new inventory dohickey

EVE Online was a fun game, 9 years was a good run CCP...but I'm out.

Sorry OP but this all is not about change.
It's about usability.
It's about 3 weeks of people telling CCP in the Test-Server-Forum that it's not good as it is.
It's about seeing what I have in an instant without making several klicks.
It's about dragging from one hangar to another just so. And not shift-clicking and multi clicking and resizing and maybe (god beware resorting) every bloody time.
I see that for chasing someone and putting him to dust and get some loot (rinse and repeat) the new inventory is real dandy.
But I do industry with multiple chars with freighters and corp-hangars and in different stations and with many many containers. Here the new system just fails. I need way more clicks and TIME to do my work.
And THAT annoys the hell out of me.

And mosty I am angered by the ignorance of the devs.

In the test server forum were multiple posting of uses cases that are much harder to do with the new system. All were ignored. There were some postings indicating that someone at CCP listened, but it was rolled out in the same way it was on SiSi.

By god I hope someone comes around and at least acknowledges problems. Until then this **** storm will continue.

Liking the new inventory, its much better for hangers of blueprints and minerals.

I'm starting to like some of the features of the new inventory window, like the filters to quickly find ammo and minerals and such, and behing able to hover over a hangar or container in the left hand menu and not having to shift + click to see whats in there and drop things in, but it has bugs that need ironing out, like window position and size persistence.

If they'd spent more time working on this it would have been better received but it's only part way finished from what I've seen, and the fact that they seem to have not listened to all the feedback given is a little concerning.

Plus all the other bugs that seem to have sprung from the woodwork with this patch, :cripes: