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Our developers are working hard to ready another round of Unified Inventory improvements, this time focusing on ramping up the performance of the Inventory considerably.

Follow Lead Game Designer CCP Soundwave, explore his latest dev blog "Next Unified Inventory Update" and learn more about the future improvements.

We welcome your feedback as always!

Second!

You guys did fantastic work as it is, looking forward to the June 19th release. :)

im also looking forward to the upcoming updates this year :)

thx for all your hard work

Before I consider taking advantage of the $10 / 30 days account re-activation offer, can somebody confirm that capital ship hangars (carrier, specifically) are:

1) easily accessed by the ship owner either sitting in the ship or when the ship is sitting in a station hangar unoccupied?
2) able to be accessed in-space by corp or fleet mates who either have the roles or are ganged up? Same for the ship hangar?
3) can be accessed via right-clicking the capacitor instead of using the left-nav index column (aka, the abomination)?
4) can be set up in a tabbed window configuration for easy flipping back and forth between corp hangars and the fuel bay?
5) that same tab-filled window be minimized and re-opened / clicked as needed whether in-station or undocked?

Thank you very much, in advance.

I wanted to expand a bit on CCP Soundwave's comment in his dev blog that "doing frequent updates isn’t really healthy and can’t be maintained for longer periods of time" from a technical perspective. In this particular case then the frequent Inferno 1.0.x releases are starting to press against the staging process of the next main deployment.

Let me explain a bit what I mean by that:

We use a source code revision control system to manage the source code for EVE Online (we use a system called Perforce). We develop each expansion in a code branch called MAIN but shortly before deployment we copy the code (port it) into a different branch for the final fixes; isolating the code being deployed so that future development can continue uninterrupted in MAIN for the future deployments thereafter.

After a deployment we hotfix the server and deploy client patches from the staging branch until the subsequent staging branch is created. The reason why we only have one staging branch active at each time is that code fixes made in a old staging branch can't be ported directly to the new staging branch, but rather must be ported through the MAIN branch, potentially picking up extra/new code in the process that is intended for a later release.

In this diagram you can see the staging branches for Inferno 1.0.x (called DEBBY) and the upcoming Inferno 1.1.x (called ERNESTO):

http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/62833/1/Branches_H2_2012_v6a_small.png

We were planning to stage Inferno 1.1.x on 6 June but have pushed that back to 7 June to give the team working on the Unified Inventory all the time possible for updates of Inferno 1.0.x, before we must create the staging branch for Inferno 1.1.x to allow the teams working on that release to finalise their deployment. There are then going to be more updates to Unified Inventory in Inferno 1.1.x as CCP Soundwave detailed in the dev blog.

All works for me and an orca. Also a thanny seems OK.

Hehe. I understand your perspective completely. IMHO, the Inventory UI project was either bungled terribly or they had some unpublished factor forcing their hand to publish this stinking turd of a change. Regardless of the reason, CCP ****** their customers prison-style without lube and are grasping at straws in their attempts to plug a severely leaking boat.

Thanks much.

Wow CCP, you guys really just don't get it. We don't care how hard it is for you to keep doing these updates. We don't care at all about your next major release. The reason we don't care is because you didn't care about us when you released this abortion you call unified inventory, when countless people told you it wasn't ready. But some idiot at the top (CCP Hilmar) must have told you to push it out because this patch had to have a major feature, even if it was completely broken. This is not how good development works.

I seem to remember Soundwave saying that your number one priority was working on fixing this until we are happy with it. Well guess what, we aren't happy with it. So don't expect any sympathy from any of us about how you can't work on the next "feature" we hate.

Add the ability to add shortcuts to the neocom for any container we want.

Add the ability to disable the total value in the bottom of the window.

Fix the dreadful performance issues.

For the love of all things holy, make my corp hangar tree stay maximized at all times and remember the last division open.

There is a huge list of other things still broken. You should be working on restoring every bit of lost functionality from the old inventory, not whatever awful new "feature" the higher ups want. This game is borderline unplayable for anyone who does logistics.

Thanks for great explanation.
So we will probably get minmatar ships in ERNESTO branch in June?