Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I realize this is somewhat rant-related and a rare issue due to special circumstances, but anyway, the UI is totally messed up in this one.

TL;DR:

Corporation -> Politics -> Open votes interface is lacking in functionality: if you happen to have numerous votes to make (i.e. 100 BPOs lockdowns/unlocks), you are in a dire problem. Overhaul is required, but as few people find themselves in this situation, the issue is rather off the priority list.

Long version

Imagine you are renting a corp hangar with hundreds of BPOs for an industrial corporation. Due to security issues, you have locked down numerous BPOs there (Capital components, possible T2 BPOs, stuff on a permanent production cycle). Now there's a problem: your rent is overdue, as the auto-pay option for the bill is disabled for some reason, and you missed the bill notification. All your stuff goes to impounded, locked blueprints included.

You re-rent the office and pay extra fees to gain back access to your preciousness, only to find all your stuff, locked BPOs included, in the first division of the corp hangar. I realize there could be some technical issues I can't predict that force everything to drop in that first division instead of where everything belonged in the first place. Whatever, at least you got your corp stuff back.

But now a bunch (like, a hundred) of BPOs sits where it does not belong. They are locked. You need to unlock them (probably forcing a 1 day stall on production) to move and re-lock. You manually put a vote for every BPO to be unlocked and ask major shareholders to confirm the action.

A shareholder goes straight into corp management window, politics pane, gets a list of votes. And here we have a merry thing:

• You can expand multiple votes to get to the actual vote buttons, but you can only press one at a time in fact.
• The list gets collapsed and reloaded after a button is pressed.
• The scrolling position on the list refresh is messed up, you lose track of what you have just confirmed/rejected.

Took me much time swearing to get all the votes up and confirmed. I was lucky to have only 99 BPOs to unlock using two shareholder characters that represented the majority of shares. Now imagine all that in the context of a fully-fledged industrial corp with more shareholders, possible thieves and all whatnot.

Either some form of mass-voting button, an overhaul of the lockdown vote interface, or a cleaner "return from impounded" buttons could save the day. The whole issue is not a bug, so no reason to report that. I doubt, though, that anything would be done to alleviate this, seeing the not-so-high priority of industrial stuff in the development schedule.