Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Or, more accurately, it's one of those things that seem simple and with no drawbacks, but which is more complicated than it seems.

The main problem is that we have triple-state buttons — on, off, overheat — and a single surface area that is supposed to toggle and communicate those three states. Depending on how both the UI rendering and the input is handled, it could be fairly complicated to make it work properly. There's also the odd quirk that the ingrained nature of the current oddball solution means that completely re-learning how it work is a potential drawback.

I'm not saying it should be done, but rather that the moment anyone says “it's easy and free of side-effects” you can pretty much bet on it being hard and with plenty of side-effects…

That said, they should just overlay (or underlay) an animated hot-wheels flame decal to signify its overheated state, and have a distinct and separate button to toggle overheating.

Another little known thing regarding overheating: You can toggle the overheat on modules by Shift+Clicking on them instead of just clicking the little button.

I wanted visibility for the idea. I'm not after personal acknowledgment. But it's in F&I now, so I'll just bump it every 24 hours or so until CCP sees it.


And some indication of the time remaining delay until we can activate a module again. Sure attempting to activate the module will tell you (if there is delay remaining) but if there isn't, you could end up activating the module when you don't want to.


I'm aware of that, however I try to avoid using my keyboard in heavy lag because there's considerable delay between depressing Ctrl, Shift, or Alt and when that actually registers in my client. These keys also have a tendency to get "stuck", e.g. the client thinks I'm holding down Ctrl when I'm not, and clicking on something in the overview causes me to lock it (frustrating when you're in a battleship in 10% tidi and you accidentally start locking an interceptor).

Yes, this is entirely due to the fact that I play EVE on a five year old laptop. There isn't really anything I can do about that right now, so I just cope the best I can.