EVE General Discussion

I created a new alt yesterday and started doing tutorials again to get some free skillbooks. Made me think of a fun game:
1. pick a random guy from the street
2. pull a few of your devs from behind their computers and give them a notebook and two pencils each
3. let the guy play the tutorial
4. whichever dev spots the most things that need to be improved/cleared up wins (my score is 53)

Please check the tutorial regularly, at least after every major expansion.

When a person in your address book comes online, it notifies you at the bottom right with their name and picture. Please make it so you can right click that picture and interact with it (show info, give money, etc)

BF

Crossposted from the Features and Ideas forum - not sure if it falls under the category of "little things" or not:

Currently in order to tell who is in space in the same solar system, we have the "local" menu. A couple years back CCP added overview tags which made it possible to tell whether there are hostiles in the same system from a quick scroll through the menu, and this was a dramatic improvement. However, the interface is still unwieldy. In both empire and nullsec, it is common to enter situations where you occupy a system with hundreds of other pilots. Trying to identify the numbers of friendlies, neutrals, wardecs, etc. is troublesome and annoying, as the user has to scroll through the entire list counting icons. It is common for fleet commanders to ask volunteers to count the number of hostiles in local by scrolling through the list - a tedious and annoying task. Want to figure out if there are any wardecs in Jita? Have fun scrolling through 700 names. Want to figure out if your fleets are overmatched in a fleet battle? Hope you have volunteers to do some careful counting.

I propose an alternate implementation of the list of names in local. Rather than display every pilot in order, the list should be implemented as a series of collapsible interface elements based on standings. For example, in a system with 100 pilots, rather than see every pilot in the list with their name and overview tag, a more efficient representaiton might be as follows:

+Alliance (10)
+Corporation (8)
+Light Blue (6)
+Dark Blue (8)
+Neutral (23)
+Wardec (5)
+Orange (12)
+Red (15)
+Fleet (13)

If I want to check whether a particular pilot is in the same system, I can click on the "+" icon to see a drop-down list of all pilots in that category. This list could perhaps be configurable in the same manner as color tags to only display those statuses deemed relevant by the user. The client has this information already due to the ability to display color tags, so why not allow us a more efficient way to sort and access the data, rather than providing everything in a huge, unwieldy list?

This reminds me of an old list I found online: "The Top 225 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord"

# 12. One of my advisers will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.

If the end result you're shooting for is just to organize your stuff, perhaps a different avenue of organization would make more sense? Create folders to organize the items instead of putting them in cans?

1. Activation timers on ship modules sometimes cycle for too long and too short, they don't quite match the times listed in the specs for the modules, is there any way to sync the activation timers so they end at the end of the visual HUD cycle.

2. When you have secure containers in say the cargo hold of an industrial ship, and you go to add items into the secure containers (in space) it gives you a message saying that it can't complete the operation because the "container is currently imploding". It takes 3 attempts until it will allow you to add the items to the secure container.

3. Sometimes wormholes can de-cloak you at random distances like 8km, and sometimes you cannot cloak when leaving a wormhole because it says you are too close to the wormhole (within 2000 meters) even though according to your overview you are much further away than that.

Let me set up my overview from inside a station.

Slow down heavy missiles.

they are th eonly medium range weapon able to reliably hit out to 100km with full damage.

Tengue's and drakes are far superior in PvE for this reason.

Slowing them down would add a penalty for there long range.
Missile flight time would be increased.

Can we have the option to choose between the old or new icons for all of the items? I'm not a huge fan of the older icons.


:/

When you orbit an object why can't it be an automatic focal point in your view?

I orbit stuff all the time, whether its a gate in a gate camp, or an asteroid while mining, and its so ******* annoying when the object you are orbiting moves out of your field of view. In my opinion when you orbit a object it should always be in your center view, because this is usually the object of your focus, not the empty field of space beyond it.