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This was a feature I was looking forward too ever since the fanfest presentation. However, after playing around with it a bit, I was disappointed. As a vet I could figure out whats going on with the tree fairly quickly, but it wasn't the easiest or most intuitive display of information to read. It's clunky and lacks both the smoothness and advanced looks that the prototype at fanfest displayed.

I think a new player (the prime demographic for this feature) will struggle to figure out whats going on and not use it too often. 

Problems/solutions:

1) when I open the tree, I should be fully zoomed out so I can see the entire tree, and then allowed to zoom in. That gives the player a better sense of what they're looking at, rather than just focused on the frigs and having to move the tree around to get comfortable with it and see the progression. I also think I should be able to zoom.out farther than the current design allows for.

2) Add some color to the indicator of the charactor's 'level of ability' for each ship class. The blocks are kind of small and don't immediately stand out, and they blend together as well, so a bit of color based on what level you have would be beneficial. 

3) I was a fan of the holographic ships when they were small models you could spin around and see up close at fanfest. But they don't work well when used as an icon. Even the (very small) enhancement that happens when you hover the mouse over them doesn't really show you the ship, its way too small. I think the normal color icons would work much better than the holographs, unless you went back to the way you had them at fanfest. Color for them would also help a little too if you decide to keep them as is. 

Overall, I don't think this will really help players understand progression in its current state....it needs to become much cleaner and smoother in both presentation and information provided.

I do like the addition of it to the game though.

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I like the aesthetics of ISIS, and there's a lot of good information here, but I have two problems with it.

In this character's case, I have Transport Ships 1 trained, and level 5 mastery for the Occator, but I don't have Gallente Industrials trained to 5. It is gold, there is a line going up to it, and it looks like I can fly it according to this chart, but I can't. I understand you'd like it to be shown that "hey, you have mastery over this ship, go train for it" but it needs to be clear that you still need to actually train for it. Perhaps grey out the line, or the ship icons, but use a dull brown instead of the grey to show that you have mastery.

The other (minor) issue is the organization of the factions. Guristas being on the top row, away from the other pirate factions looks weird. Perhaps switch them with SoE, or perhaps make it three lines, Empire | ORE/SOE | Pirates.

I share the same opinion: showing the skills needed for a mastery ahead of / instead of / separately to the skills we have already trained for that level would be lovely!

Very nice update. Now it looks much more polished. I like the little white flash of the top/bottom border if you move to far to the sides.

you can't drag ships from the ship tree to the compare tool. Even draging them from the show info doesn't work. In fact the only drag source which worked for me was the market window.

edit: daredevil has the wrong ship preview background. its the only ship which doesn't match with the others in the page.

i like it, easy to use and see whats what.

I noted an inconsistency with the intended remake of the certification/prerequisite overhaul:

T1 'Logistic' Cruisers and their entry tiers of mastery.

Level one requires Remote Shield/Armor repair at level one, level two at two, etc.

Level one requires the same skills at level three, which is needed for repair drones.

This is confusing and contrary to the intended spirit of what you are trying to do, from my perspective.

Looks really good.

Now you just need a tree like this for weapons and mods.

ISIS looks very nice. Many thanks for this!

But is it possible to make the map more moveable and zoomable?
If you want to see the bottom lines and icons you have to close all the chat windows.

Good point, we'll ask around if that can be done.