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Low hanging UI Improvement Fruits

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Saede Riordan
Alexylva Paradox
#1 - 2013-12-13 18:28:55 UTC
So, we've seen some great stuff done with the UI as of late, but I can't help but feel that while some things have been improved, others have been left behind.

Things like: When are the other anchoring notifications getting that nice green circle, and the red one for reinforced? When are wormhole polarization timers getting those nice circle timers like exist for everything else?

So post your suggestions here for low hanging fruit the UI team could grab in order to improve your gameplay experience.

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Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#2 - 2013-12-13 18:37:36 UTC
THE SOLAR SYSTEM MAP BUTTON

Every time I want to look at the star map, it takes me to the solar system map.
Every time I want to look at the solar system map, it takes me to the star map.

There's a hotkey to go straight to map, and also a button on the scanner, yet they both use the goddamn map window, and the button on the map window is the only way to toggle. This is dumb all of the map control panel window functionality is related to the star map only.

Back when I started, there were zoom icons next to the reset camera button. If you clicked the zoom out, it would take you to a solarsystem map (without a black background) and then to the star map. Currently we do not have that functionality.


Also, make the f11 pane more useful. Really.

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qwiksilver Oriki
Academy Eternal War
#3 - 2013-12-13 18:41:49 UTC
So much more could be done to make the radial menu actually functional.
Actual number counters for the time on active modules
Reload countdown timers
Victoria Sin
Doomheim
#4 - 2013-12-13 18:43:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Victoria Sin
My pet annoyance is the failure of the UI to auto-fill any of the options in the industry dialogs when I'm building/inventing/copying. For example, if I'm right clicking on a BPO in Lab X, it should automatically select a free slot for operation Y in Lab X. If I'm using a Rorq to compress ore, it should remember the last time I did it I set input/output to Ore Bay - and if I've set input/output to ore bay it's not a giant leap for it to default the number of runs to amount of ore I have in the ore bay / BP amount required per run.

These things have been ignored for years but they're a critical lubricant to a non-frustrating gameplay experience. As a software dev when a user comes to me and has little annoyances like this to report, I take them extremely seriously and will escalate the bug/enhancement request. Why? Because they're critical to the user's productivity, for reducing his stress levels and for leaving him with a good impression of the software.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-12-13 18:44:43 UTC
A second flag icon on the forums next to Report Post that would automatically report it with the reason "Should be moved to Features and Ideas". I swear it's the reason for like 70% of the posts I report.
Victoria Sin
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-12-13 18:45:45 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
A second flag icon on the forums next to Report Post that would automatically report it with the reason "Should be moved to Features and Ideas". I swear it's the reason for like 70% of the posts I report.


You report posts.

Wow.

That's so... Roll
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#7 - 2013-12-13 18:46:42 UTC
agree with the above, but I think CCP is afraid to fix industry UI problems because... maybe they're superstitious. non-industry UI stuff at least has a chance that they'll fix it.

I would like to be able to cancel an ammo reload by clicking -unload, then loading again, rather than having to wait out the first reload, then do a second one.

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ISD Dosnix
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#8 - 2013-12-13 20:05:48 UTC
Moved to "Features&Ideas"
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Jessica Danikov
Network Danikov
#9 - 2013-12-13 20:17:18 UTC
Expand 'k', 'm', 'b', etc. in number fields to the right number of 0s (accomodating for decimal places of course) at the right time.

Such a simple change, surprised that I still have to keep mentioning it.
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#10 - 2013-12-13 20:48:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Alvatore DiMarco
Jessica Danikov wrote:
Expand 'k', 'm', 'b', etc. in number fields to the right number of 0s (accomodating for decimal places of course) at the right time.

Such a simple change, surprised that I still have to keep mentioning it.


This could save a lot of counting zeroes.
HiddenPorpoise
Jarlhettur's Drop
United Federation of Conifers
#11 - 2013-12-13 21:23:33 UTC
They really should stop putting ® next to dust. It gets annoying fast around fw space.
Saede Riordan
Alexylva Paradox
#12 - 2013-12-17 13:36:30 UTC