Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I've listed just a few ideas that (I believe) could be implemented quickly and easily and would provide a meaningful boost to the Planetary Interaction experience (i.e. less clicking.)

-Make windows re-sizable

-Bring active facility windows to the front

If I have a (whatever) window open, then click on a facility, and that facility’s window opens in the same space as my (whatever) window, it is currently placed behind the (whatever) window. That facility’s window should be brought to the front when it is the active window.

-Make tabs persist when we switch to a new window with equivalent tabs

If I have the Routes tab open on a Basic Processor, and then open the window for an Advanced Processor, the Routes tab should stay open on the new window

-Combine the Extractor Control Unit single click facility window and double click survey window

-or-

-When I double click an ECU to open the survey window, leave the facility window open

-Make the survey window stay open after installing a program

-Make the survey window’s y-axis scalable

If I have two ECUs and open of their survey windows in turn, the y-axis currently defaults to show the first extraction cycle at near max. Leave this as is, but to help us compare extraction programs visually, let us rescale the y-axis

I would love automatic routing, but I wanted the suggestions in this particular thread to be quick and easy to implement as I said above.

That being said, I don't have any experience in programming. Maybe automatic routing would be easier than I think, or maybe my ideas would be hard to implement than I think. I'm hoping to get a Dev to weigh in on this.

PI really needs ripping out and replacing with a new model that is tied properly into dust & the districts model of the planets.

At this point a lot of these UI's can be changed anyway, since they don't need to work the same way we have currently and they can design out a lot of the UI fighting in favour of better interfaces.

To give a quick sketch of a possible system.
Planet A is Temperate & has 10 districts
Each of these zones has for the sake of argument, three facility slots. A player can control up to 5 facilities perhaps.
There is then also the Dust 514 Facility controlled by someone on this planet.

If the Dust corp is friendly, you get W bonus. & they get X, Y, Z bonuses depending on what facilities are built in the area.
If it is neutral. nothing
If it is hostile, both sides take some small penalty.

To capture/destroy an EVE facility, another EVE player needs to put up a visible contract, the owning player also gets notice.
(High Sec Facilities may need war decs to do this, in which case PI would need to be in a player corp)
Both EVE players can pay for certain types of support in order to influence the battle, and there will then be a 'random' Dust 514 battle after 24/36/48 hours notice.
FW/Null zones could give the holding Dust corp the option of taking the defence against a pub attacking team giving advantage to Defenders who have friendly Dust corps with them.
Owners Corp could also bombard for Defending Dusties like FW milita can. Attacks Corp could do the same for assaulting Dusties. Another opening for bombardment.

You could then further give bonuses if the facilities in a district are owned by other friendly corps/penalties for hostile corps of a certain size or larger.
This creates incentive especially in high sec to form larger corps and also to not simply disband the corp on a war dec, but actually have something to fight over.

@Nevyn Auscent:
If you ripped out PI, you would upset a pretty large portion of players . You didn't state why you think that PI needs ripping out - what is so fundamentally wrong with it that it needs ripping out? (Dust is not an argument because it's a PS3 Free2Play that is somewhat related to the EVE universe, but Dust has no real impact on EVE - nor there is a reason why it should have).

What you propose seems very combat-oriented. PI is about industry - resources, processing and products. These resources and products have their place, demand and use on the market, so you need to think about maintaining a mechanic that grants the players these resources for a reasonable cost. By making these industry mechanics even more dependent on combat (we already have gate camps, pirates, rats, trolls and market PvP) you would unbalance the whole PI mechanics, skyrocket the prices of the PI resources and thus render usage of POSs useless because the fuel would be too expensive.

This would also make PI not-an-option for any solo player or a small corp. because you wouldn't be able to hold to your Facilities without a large fire support. A monopoly of large organizations would lead to price increase of these resources, etc.



Why? You realize that you still need to move to 2.5km from a POCO to move resources from POCO to a ship and vice-versa, right?

IMHO

The best thing that could be done for PI would be to make (Import/Export-Customs Office) accessable on a Corp level rather than locked to each character with 6 planets.

the only problem with this is that worthwhile PI is done in null

@Azrael Dinn
72 planets? Well, I can see why you could use that. The only question is whether you (we) can persuade the CCP devs.

I agree that large corporation hangars would be great for large-scale PI, but such buff needs some balancing - how about applying 1.2×tax when the corp. hangar is used?

@Tarn Kugisa
I disagree, that depends on what you are after. If you want to get a big load of raw resources, sure, go to nullsec. But if you go after L2/L3 products, lowsec works just fine. Highsec seems good enough for creating L4/L5 products out of L3 products.