EVE General Discussion

Hardware options:

The ability to select a different sound device other than the system default .

I run two sound cards and other applications than "just" Eve. As it turns out, my default system device is busy with more improtant applications. World of Warcraft lets me do this. Ventrilo lets me do this. TS2 & TS3 lets me do this. Even Fraps lets me do this. Why can't EVE?

Local Window

-- an option to hide, or suppress, the portraits in local.
-- an option to hide, or suppress, the chat window in local.
-- an option to change, or modify, the font sizes of the characters displayed in local.
-- an option to change, or modify, the height/padding between the horizontal line separators between each character line displayed in local.

T3 ships

-- It is time to finish what you started in Apocgrypha. How about we go outside the cruiser class now?


Faction Warfare

-- Be innovative. Some system to reward corporations for participating on a corporate level (i.e., the corp is enrolled in FW), would be good to get some better grass roots going in here, since the corporation is the basic group social unit in Eve.

0.0

-- Make it harder for 20% of the people to control 80% of the sov. Do not harm large empires blanketly, but rather require they have a sufficient population for the space they hold. i.e., a 700 man alliance shouldn't hold 3 regions :)
-- Add (new) 0.0 space that is only reachable through the wormhole system currently in place (and reduce the need to be near "empire" if you think these fledgling systems will not survive). A New, New Eden.

I want to produce GSCs myself (or to be more specific, i want someone else to do it for me)

sane goes for all the other containers ofc !

As an FC:
highlight players with special skills in different colours (leadership, wing command ... )

some kind of readycheck like in the game which must not be named

Already happened. Crashed the cluster. The hot fix was to disable the functionality.


It's already there. It's called PRISM in EveHQ :)

+1 for this idea as well. I also agree that there would be a name history somewhere. Perhaps a new tab or some such with the name history.

Another way would be to just have a small descriptor that gets activated somewhere in the player info window once a toon has been sold. i.e. "This pilot has undergone some major personal changes and may have gone so far as to have changed their name." I can then go to an agent and ask for a name history for any player that I see this tag on.

We need better 'brackets' to identify ship-type both in the overview and in space. The current ones are almost useless for anything but seeing that there's another ship on grid.

There already was a new set tested out on SISI several months ago. It was removed for some unknown reason despite being a significant improvement on what we have now on TQ.

Please bring those back or make better ones. Thanks.

Little thing: Keyboard focus when new windows pop up.

Pretty much any window (people and places, assets, market, etc) that has a Search textbox should have keyboard focus go to the search textbox when it opens.

This shouldn't break anything, as it seems that right now, there is no keyboard focus whatsoever. I will not make jokes about this, as it's better when you make them up in your own head, but still -- it's a little thing that would add a lot of usability and polish in very little time.

This

how about reverting the multiple clients, control targeting issue.
it was ctrl, click target(client 1). keep holding down ctrl click target (client 2)
now its click client 1, ctrl target, release ctrl. click client 2, ctrl target.

the extra step is anoying as hell, ctrl is still pressed and im clicking the 2nd overview why are you not targeting you pile of crap arrararararrararara

Crossposting this from the "papercuts" comment thread:

On the same note as the "activate acceleration gate" change, is there any chance of jump queuing with stargates upon exiting warp? For example, it's common for pilots to start hammering on the "jump" button as soon as they start coming out of warp on top of an acceleration gate when warping to zero, only to receive an error message along the lines of "You cannot do that while warping." Due to occasional delays in server/client synch, it sometimes even takes a couple of seconds after the "warp drive active" message disappears before you jump. It would be nice to just have to click the jump button once, and have the jump operation queue up to execute automatically as soon as your ship leaves warp, similarly to the way autopilot will ensure you automatically jump if you're in range of the gate.

Also, having to reselect an item from the overview to reenable the command buttons is quite irritating. For example, if you have a station selected in the overview and you are about to click on the "warp to zero" button, if you lose your ship before selecting the button you have to select something else in your overview and then reselect the station because the buttons deactivate when you enter your pod - this often adds a few extra seconds of delay which can spell the difference between getting podded or getting away safely. The interface shouldn't need to disable the active overview buttons just because you've lost your ship.