Player Features and Ideas Discussion

click the A dropdown in info panel, click Manage Route, "Drag-And-Drop Destination Waypoints to Modify Their Priority"

Suggestion: Make PI Extractors auto-route mined resources to the nearest not-filled-up storage
Keyword: Planetary Interaction, clickfest-reduction
Note: Planetary interaction is frustrating as it is, whith huge amounts of repetitive clicking and selecting and submitting, or else... One particularly annoying and silly feature is that when you have laboriously set up your extractor for the right resource, hot spot, time and area, in order to have your plants supplied for the next, say, 48 hrs, you come back and find that nothing has happened. Why? because you selected a new resource and forgot to re-route the extractor. It is silly. There is usually only one place where it really could go, and that is where resources were sent previously. There is no need to reconfirm that, and no need to assume an in-harvester crew or AI so stupid that they cannot figure that out but rather would let 48 hours of producion vanish down the drain. When you click "Install Program" - auto-route the resource. Really, CCP....

Suggestion: Auto-warn players when resources or products are not routed
Keyword: Planetary Interaction, clickfest-reduction
Note: In line with above: When you install a new Basic (or Advanced) Industry Facility and select a schematic, you are automatically taken to a screen where "Not Routed" is visible in warning red. CCP, if you insist on not autorouting harvested resources, at least provide the same warning for Extractors: Clicking "Install Program" returns you to the main config box for the extractor with the "Products" tab open. No reason for them to be different.

Suggestion: Remove the concept of routes altogether - links are sufficient
Keyword: Planetary Interaction, clickfest-reduction
Note: This would go a long way in rudcing the clickfest, but probably won't happen. But really, Planetary installations are, even at skill V, rather small and simple. There is usually no more than the launch pad for mass storrage, maybeone storage silo, but it is of no importance. You produce, you store, and then you ship out. It is a rather autonomous unit, and it would not take much AI or much skill with the resident crew to figure out what to do with stuff, once you, the player, have specified what you want axtracted and manufactured. The micro-level management involved in specying the routes, when you have already made the links, is stupid and superfluous, conceptually and practically.

Suggestion: Make current Tax Rate at Planetary Customs Office visible from Launch Pad command screen.
Keywords: Planetary Interaction, Production Cost calculation
Note: It is annoying that this information is only visible by accessing the Customs Office itself, since that can only be done from inside the Solar System in question. Supposedly, someone at the launch pad would be aware of this, even if their boss (the player) is not present

Suggestion: When launching goods directly into space from a Planetary Command Center, make Launch delay timer and launch costs visible from the Planetary Command Center info panel
Keywords: Planetary Interaction, Production Cost calculation
Note: This info is currently hidden, only to be found out by trial and error. Silly.

It's been said before but... (e.g. #1288, #338)

Suggestion: Use alt- and shift-drag to position multiple PI extractor heads
Keywords: UI, PI
Notes: Remember how much it sucked to manually position 8 probes? its worse in PI cause I have 10 extractor heads. I like to put them in a nice hexagon pattern to best use the space. But if my hotspot moves to the side a bit I have to reposition each head individually and then tweak it to make sure they aren't overlapping.
Instead I want to use shift-drag to move the extractor heads together. And to help out when I change the cycle time/head size, use alt-drag to adjust the spacing (i.e. move all extractor heads towards or away from their geometric center.)

I do read it every now and then... just been a bit busy with work lately

Suggestion:
Separate Star Map and Solar System Map.
Keywords:
star map, solar system map, window, hotkey
Note:
These two modes are currently tied to one window and hotkey, it's rather inconvenient to frequently (or not so frequently) switch between them because of delay. If you switch just once in an hour you don't notice it, but if you do that multiple times in a few minutes - the delays become very sensible.
Please assign different hotkeys for them and make it possible to have both loaded to memory at the same time. For example, you could make it look like 2 full-screen tabs: some people may have both loaded, some may have only one which they need a.t.m..

Please make a toggle to turn off the Log off timer buzzes.

I would really like to be able to use sound again while multi-boxing.

If you really want to make the bond between Eve and Dust more stronger, you should consider adding "warp squad to..." to the districts beacon

Suggestion: EVE gate notes tab for characters
Keywords: notes, EVEgate, character, EVEforums
Note: I just stumbled upon a char in forums with a standing as set by me, but have to log in to read my notes why I did give him the said standing, would be handy to see it on the EVE gate profile site of said char. thx

Hi,

I would like to have a 'edit' option in the right click menu, while in space, for bookmarks.

Right now there is only the 'remove' option for bookmarks. But I would like to modify a bookmark without having to browse to the whole bookmark folder in the people and palces to find it.

Say I want a bookmark moved from one folder to another. It would be much easier.