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Drone UI?

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Frake Lomes
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-05-13 23:59:30 UTC
After a few years + few more years of EVE, the most almost best sandbox spaceship game ever (10% truth rule),
are there any plans to fix the Drone UI?

If only there was a team dedicated to making the games UI better, a team which could be called:
Team SuperAwesomeBestFriendsForeverPinkZombieKitten or maybe it was simply Team Best Friends or somesuch.

Anyhows, I thought Drone UI fixes were in the CCPwerks at some point and we could have expected at least something to make drones a little more bearable for a few years now.

Can someone at least give me a slight glimmer of hope, just a tiny beacon of light....even if it is an inbound torpedo about make my day a little more interesting?
Ckra Trald
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-05-14 00:04:16 UTC
Drones is general are messed up. UI is clunky, they lack hotkeys, most of the EW drones are not very good, and they tend to get blown up too fast.

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Frake Lomes
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-05-29 01:17:09 UTC
Shameless bump.

With the addition of probe love, stargate love, tiericide love, and other lubbins on EVE, might I humbly suggest to CCPwerks (aka all those lovable minions working hard on making EVE better) to start putting Drone UI fix post-it notes on the top of the "Big pile of to-do" post-it notes.

Would be much appreciated for some Drone UI lovin.
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-05-29 01:20:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Sergeant Acht Scultz
If drones AI is still in need of a lot of work, most of drones issues got forgotten for some time with the introduction of drone modules and ships bonus changes making those work a bit better but no solve the core problems of those. UI is secondary but still something in need of work too.

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Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#5 - 2013-05-29 01:21:11 UTC


--> Features & Ideas Discussion

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Frake Lomes
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-05-29 01:25:06 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:


--> Features & Ideas Discussion


right, right, this is the wrong place for it, but it's not so much an idea for features and stuff as a cry for help for something terribly neglected. Kind of like Alma crying for her kids she never got to raise (+10 points for all of you out there getting this reference).
Winterblink
#7 - 2013-05-29 03:07:34 UTC
Ckra Trald wrote:
Drones is general are messed up. UI is clunky, they lack hotkeys, most of the EW drones are not very good, and they tend to get blown up too fast.

Since when do they lack hotkeys?

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Keyboard_Controls#Drones

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Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2013-05-29 03:11:52 UTC
Still don't see hotkeys to launch pre-defined groups of drones in that link.

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Winterblink
#9 - 2013-05-29 03:17:50 UTC
Jake Warbird wrote:
Still don't see hotkeys to launch pre-defined groups of drones in that link.

The post I was replying to implied there were NONE, not specific ones for scenarios that you describe.

That being said, what you suggest is something I'd totally love to have.

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War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#10 - 2013-05-29 11:31:48 UTC
Winterblink wrote:
Jake Warbird wrote:
Still don't see hotkeys to launch pre-defined groups of drones in that link.

The post I was replying to implied there were NONE, not specific ones for scenarios that you describe.

That being said, what you suggest is something I'd totally love to have.


No, you just read it that way. They do indeed lack hotkeys for an essential function - deployment. It's a pretty universal "specific scenario"

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Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#11 - 2013-05-29 11:36:30 UTC
Maybe, for a baby step, they could add a hotkey to press and hold so you can click single drones to dock and undock, depending on where they are.

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CCP Arrow
C C P
C C P Alliance
#12 - 2013-05-29 11:48:11 UTC
I can't make any promises, but I've worked on many mockups and ideas for a brand new Drone UI and I would love to work on it's implementation with my team Game of Drones in the near future.

All I can say is keep up the good work of giving us ideas for it and know that the right people are listening Smile

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Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#13 - 2013-05-29 11:59:51 UTC
CCP Arrow wrote:
I can't make any promises, but I've worked on many mockups and ideas for a brand new Drone UI and I would love to work on it's implementation with my team Game of Drones in the near future.

All I can say is keep up the good work of giving us ideas for it and know that the right people are listening Smile


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War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#14 - 2013-05-29 12:15:05 UTC
CCP Arrow wrote:
I can't make any promises, but I've worked on many mockups and ideas for a brand new Drone UI and I would love to work on it's implementation with my team Game of Drones in the near future.

All I can say is keep up the good work of giving us ideas for it and know that the right people are listening Smile


What are the chances of letting us see the mockups and giving feedback on the "right" direction?

Do we need to support a Pro-Drone CSM candidate for this to happen, or can you share with the whole class please? :)

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#15 - 2013-05-29 12:50:42 UTC
CCP Arrow wrote:
I can't make any promises, but I've worked on many mockups Smile


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Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#16 - 2013-05-29 13:37:43 UTC
CCP Arrow wrote:
I can't make any promises, but I've worked on many mockups and ideas for a brand new Drone UI and I would love to work on it's implementation with my team Game of Drones in the near future.

All I can say is keep up the good work of giving us ideas for it and know that the right people are listening Smile


My deeply cynic soul can't decide if this is a blatant attempt to divert attention from launcher complains and/or generic whines over some change in Odyssey.

Or if it's an equally blatant but more personal attempt from Arrow to harvest forum likes ;)

Either way, it was the best post I've read in weeks.

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iskflakes
#17 - 2013-05-29 14:47:48 UTC
EVE needs this more than it needs exploration.

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Arkenai Wyrnspire
Incorruptibles
#18 - 2013-05-29 14:50:08 UTC
iskflakes wrote:
EVE needs this more than it needs exploration.

I think I agree, actually.

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Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#19 - 2013-05-29 14:56:46 UTC
Arkenai Wyrnspire wrote:
iskflakes wrote:
EVE needs this more than it needs exploration.

I think I agree, actually.


Sadly, so do I, but the way exploration has gone has me a little worried about 'improvements' atm

(BTW does anyone here remember Dark Star - now think of that bomb as an Ogre in your drone bay Twisted)
Jarod Garamonde
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2013-05-29 15:54:19 UTC
CCP Arrow wrote:
I can't make any promises, but I've worked on many mockups and ideas for a brand new Drone UI and I would love to work on it's implementation with my team Game of Drones in the near future.

All I can say is keep up the good work of giving us ideas for it and know that the right people are listening Smile



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