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Congratulations to you, CCP, for accomplishing such a major roll-out with apparently few hiccups.

Some ideas readily came to mind after my first Tranquility experience with Retribution. They are as follows:
1) When looting a wreck, the contents of the wreck are shown. When those contents are removed and placed into the cargo hold of a capsuleer's ship, the User Interface changes to show the contents of the capsuleer's own cargo hold. Such behavior is inappropriate since the capsuleer will likely already have a window open showing the cargo hold contents. It would be preferable for the U.I. to do what the end user requested -not something else and not something extra. The U.I. should maintain focus on the contents of the wreck. (Edit... This isn't happening anymore. It might have been due to the "Always show full tree" option.)

2)Placing a bounty on a non-criminal should be a criminal offense -resulting in a flagged status and security level reduction for the duration of the bounty.

3)I had just started getting used to the tree type navigation for accessing assets when this happened...
"....The icons for collapsing and expanding the Index Tree and Filters has been changed so that it is not confused with the Back and Forward buttons". Those icons were helpful. I did not find them confusing and would appreciate that functionality returned. (Edit... Per post #660, this is not an issue.)

4)When mining veldspar, I don't need the word "targeted" flashing at 50 cycles per second on the targeted rock in space. Using an older display with 60Hz back-lighting is bad enough. Oh, wait. You've fixed that already.

Thank you.

So far I've noticed that drones are supper hated in missions, and if a drone is getting shot at, good luck saving it, my hob II's went down faster than i could right click return to drone bay.

Ok, finally turned off all UI sounds, thx ccp, now i have to have my alt on watch list instead of waiting for audio signal for shields.
(add option to remove the flag beeping totally, not just remove beeps from every 4 seconds to every 30ish seconds... ok I get it, its hard for you to admit you were wrong, but if so many people are complaining just admit it, its sh** sound, same goes for explosion, salvaging in noctis is like listening to sniper shots in very cheap bollywood movie)

Did few missions

Regarding drones, as a almost maxed machariel pilot (specs on IV, bs skills on IV, +6% damage implants, all cap/shield/gun support skills on V) this is my conclusion

I usually never used drones in machariel, from time to time used sentries

Frigates go for drones. Often.
My mach can go almost 600 m/s so I don't care, I can track and kill them at 15+ km and I can even outrun them or lower my traversal speed to hit them.

But then a scary though came to my mind. When I didn't have 3 billion machariel and 35 million skill points and was flying mere 200 million maelstorm in lvl 4 I had to warp out. Often warp out. I relied on those drones to kill scrammers asap so I can GTFO when sh** got serious.

Right now from what I saw, if you have 2-3 frigates you need to look closely on drones and recall them and deploy again multiple times. They might kill one and be fine, but when they start on 2nd one they get aggro and start going down fast. I could manage it perfectly fine after 2 years of game experience and fact that my mach tanked the battleships just fine so I haven't had to worry about him.

I can't imagine new players getting in their first battleships, going in LVL 4 mission, managing aggro, shields/armor rep, cap and drones at same time to get scrammers while they are still alive.
And now with switching targets you can't get more experienced player to take them in first time to show em hows its done since they might die anyways.

I couldn't care less about drones in missions. But what is too much is to much. You will loose many new player when they have to work to much do one mission and have that great risk when doing single mission. Also you can't expect level 4 missions to become new incursions where you need 2-3 buddies to run them.

So, NPC switching targets, yea why not, makes it interesting.

NPC going for drones, yea, why not, but not in this measure.
Fine tune it to disable afk missioning, for example IF the ship hasn't fired in 30 seconds on any other NPC THEN go for drones. Should eliminate AFK mission runners and still enable majority of players to actually use drones for frigates.

This is my opinion on it.

And yea, in case I forgot to mention it, here is solution what to do with FLAG buzzing noises.
Take them and save them to memory stick, make an digital desk watch, put in 30 watt 12 inch speaker on it turned to max with amplifier, upload the sound, set it to go off 5 times randomly in one minute and put it in the same room whose idea was to make it in first place.

Based on the amount of whining in this thread, I'd have to say all those doom-criers - saying that eve would be too simple due to the change in Retribution - were totally wrong.

Im seeing inconsistencies when you have the "Enter Moving Mode for Messages" enabled, and you dock without exiting. Maybe something to look into.

It was never said that eve would be too simple, just that it would be dumbed down, and it has been.

with the new compact hanger mode eve is back to the way it should be :)

But can we please have a corp hanger button so i can add it to my NEOCOM prety please :)

Thank you for the update :)

The revamp of audio for this expansion seems to have had 'change for the sake of change' as it's metric.
This important sensory aspect of EvE has been altered and imposed on the player, allowing very little modification aside from 'turn it off'.
The game experience is significantly different and for many it is not a good change.

• Bring back the Jukebox. It was adequate. Jukebox added 'specific functionality' for the user and did so based on the user's personal content. Streaming audio is not an equivalent. If there were 'better players out there', and if 'better', 'out there' really had some specific relevance to EvE, then get a better player.


• Fix, temper, eliminate the clanging echoed 'object destroyed' sound. It is annoying in the extreme and appears to be uncontrollable. A fine example of genuine negative feedback. You could base an experiment on behaviour modification using this sound.
WheatGrass wrote:
Placing a bounty on a non-criminal should be a criminal offense -resulting in a flagged status and security level reduction for the duration of the bounty.
• Bounty, bounty, bounty! For -almost- everyone a bounty. Unfettered nuisance! If you want to keep this system, then WheatGrass makes some sense.

Just jumping in as a "me too" about the demise of the Jukebox. Bring it back or at least give us a choice.