EVE General Discussion

I used to use unsorted unstacked items to sort stuff for sale especially working through piles of mission loot. Auto sort broke that a bit and auto stack would completely break it. Auto anything reduces control and is bad.

Most of it has been mentioned already, but instead of making it a quote fest…

· Personal hangar divisions similar to what you get in a corp. No further description needed, really. Hangar divisions are the ultimate sorting tools for assets, and while some of it can be done with freight cans and the like, it's not nearly as neat, and isn't supported by a large variety of asset interaction functions. For instance, the Fitting Window “assemble ship” function requires you to have a whole pile of stuff strewn over your hangar bay — it would be neat if you could simply pick a hangar division where all the in-use (as opposed to “for sale” or “for delivery”) modules and ammo are picked up from.

· The ability for various “source/target” dropdowns (e.g. in the S&I interface) to not just use hangar divisions, but also to recognise containers and cans in your main hangar (granted, making this overlap with the above might be tricky… make it a market-style tree view perhaps?).

· Reduce the Assets window to its old size. Over the years, it has been filled with more and more required fields and functionalities that, for some reason, must be visible at all time. As a result, the window has grown wider and wider over the same time, to the point where it will always be bulky and thus lose its neatness and quick-overview ability. This is more a matter of UI and window templates than of inventory management, but this is where it hurts the most (and fixing it for the Assets window will probably do the same for other windows with similar issues). Simply put, allow me to reduce the window width/height to less than what is required by all the components inside — if something doesn't fit, who cares? That's my problem, not something you need to solve for me (in fact, it most likely isn't a problem, and I don't care if some elements aren't visible).

· Being able to open a remote asset collection from the asset window (or corp window) and have it appear like the normal, local, items/hangar view. The asset window's long list can quickly become very cumbersome when using various remote operations (e.g. setting up contracts or trades in remote stations), whereas having it as a normal item window would speed things up immensely.

· More logical “item groups” — if you try to sort by item type right now, you can get a thoroughly weird mix of items. Some very similar stuff is marked as completely different types, so when checking up on your POS fuel you can't just go down the list of the tower description (or, soon, the fuel pellet build list) because some stuff is classified as ice products, others as refined planetary material, others as advanced PI material… so the order isn't what you'd expect. Likewise, ammo gets sorted after pretty much the least helpful detail — instead of having all my hybrid ammo in one long list, I get “Advanced Blaster ammo” then “Advanced Cruise Missiles” and then “Faction projectile ammo” and only then the rest of my “Hybrid Ammo”. The sorting should be done by most common category first, which by the looks of it could be a matter of a simple name change (“Hybrid Ammo, Advanced Blaster” and “Missiles, Advanced Cruise” instead of the current names).

…overall, the number of item categories could probably do with some cleaning up — just look at the list used to create filters in the LP store or in contracts. They aren't always entirely explanatory, and/or have some… interesting… distinctions.

· On that note (and perhaps somewhat contradictory): more filtering options. Not just a search, but something that lets you hide or display broad categories of items, regardless of name. E.g. I want to see all “charge” items (and not have stuff appear in the middle due to an unfortunate name, as would happen if you just used the sort-by-type method). Or, I want to see all highslot items but I want them in icon view (so I can't just go into list mode and sort by “slot” or whatever the column is called).

· Auto-repackaging of items (but probably not ships or containers) when trying to create stacks. Normal items have no “content” that might spill out and ruin your neat floor when you repackage them (or, in the case of rigged ships, simply are destroyed). While I understand the need to separate the unpacked and repacked states to allow for singleton attributes such as item damage, there's no reason why the transition can't be made automatic — an undamaged item should be stackable just like a normal repackaged one, since there is nothing to keep it from immediately being repackaged and then stacked. It just creates a needless extra step for the user.

Less about personal inventory, and more in the topic of “stuff that is in the inventory database”:

· More immediately and obviously available preview. Yes, bling… it used to be possible to just click on the omnipresent eye-icon anywhere it appeared in the market window to get a preview of the item (if one was available) — now, it's far more inconsistent and, without that eye, far less clear when it is or isn't possible to do so. Maybe as a hover-over-the-icon button, or as yet another context menu item.

· More hyperlinking between items. When you look through the list of PI materials, you can trace back the source of that item to its component parts (something that could probably be simplified because there is a middle step between each product right now that is of questionable use), so why not do that for all items, and why not link all such lists to the standard “item action” context menu? I.e. when I look at a Vexor, there should be a “created from [Vexor Blueprint]” notice somewhere, that I can click on and get the BPO info, or rclick on and check the market or contract for… and when I the blueprint view, I can rclick→buy all the components needed.

1. As a person that copies some 600 BPCs a month, I would love the ability to stack BPCs of the same ME/PE. Dragging them around different containers causes the client to lock up for 30-60 seconds.

If I had a stack of 200 Cap Recharger ME100 PE20 BPCs, I imagine the performance would be better as I would be moving one object around and not 200.

2. Checkbox or settings for Autostack.

3. Ability to remotely split a stack from the Assets window in another station.

I'd also like to see the reverse of this.

"Create stacks of x"

....actually just put both

"Create X stacks of Y"

i wanna make 10 stacks of 1000 out of 100,000. This should leave 90,000 untouched.

i wish when i clicked to repackage all my items that if any are in need of repairing a blurb will come up with a notice saying...

to do this will cost so much much isk as some mods are in need of repair...

this i would have your babies for...

Tabs that work like containers?
or
Configurable tabs that work like filters maybe?

Or at least an item category filter like the LP store has and contracts?

Items in cans unlocked by default!

Let us do the same filtering/tabbing etc for the ships in station. If I want to collect ships I can put them separately from the ships I fly, or if I manufacture ships I can put products separately from what I fly.

There are times you may not want to auto-stack items so maybe containers are better than filters.

And it would be nice if tabs are remembered on the server and not on the client! After reinstalling the game you don't want your crap all bunched together.

In support of things that have been already said:

Folders and or tabs in item hangars.
Sub-folders for bookmarks
Display amount of damage an item has (i.e. mining crystals)

It would be nice if, when sorting items by quantity, that items which have no quantity value attached would be stacked accordingly to be below/above items which have a quantity of 1. Currently, said items are stacked on the high end

- afk indicator in chat
- repackage and trash in "Corporate hangar arrays"
- folders in "Ships", "Items", "Corp hangar", "Corporate hangar arrays" and containers
- folders in LP store (Implants/Hardwiring/Ammo/Ship modules/ etc)

folders anywhere :)

- automatically stack looted items
- automatically repack items when required (its totally reversible, so no damage done)
- Quickfilter for: Raw Materials, Salvage, Ammo, High/Low/Med modules, drones, Other items, etc. (e.g. through a toggle button for each group at the top of the screen) [this filter could also apply to the loot-all button -> awesome]
- Drag Select (is being implemented. yay.)
- Retain and show selections in non-active windows
- Quick-Sell: Drag item(s) to market window: item is being sold without confirmation if price is above a definable threshold (e.g. >75% avrg. market value) otherwise returned to hangar. no popup windows, just audio feedback.

thats it for now, i think i can come up with more stuff

Some more;

-When I try and sell a unpackaged, undamaged item that has no contents, it auto repackages before the sale.
-I can split multiple stacks at once. That is select several stacks, shift drag the group, type in a number, and get that many units of every item selected in the new stacks.
-If we get hangar tabs, there should be a flag that tells things like the fitting service and industry whether or not it should look in a given tab for stuff. That way I can set some areas as "off limits" to automatic processes.
-There needs to be a search function that looks in the hangar tabs, cans, ship holds, and ship fitted modules. For when I cannot remember where I put that core-x module.