EVE General Discussion

less clicks please, that is all!

Just some ideas:

1) Let me create folders in the blueprint / corp blueprint overview.

2) Reduce the clickfest.

Would be nice to have at least something like the save option from the sales options menu.

Really nice would be a graphical overhaul of the job creation page. Let us create and bookmark jobs, based on our owned blueprints: like build 10 Damage Controls
Give us a graphical list of all available production lanes on the left, the list of our bookmarked jobs on the right so i can just drop the wished job into the lane and be done. Show me the jobs as long as i have an unused blueprint that the jobs needs.
So if i have 3 DC blueprints i could drop it 3 times in my lanes, then the job will be hidden in the list.
Copying and Invention could be similar.

S&I is a repetitive job, so cater the gui around it please.

Non repetive tasks, like ME&PE research can still use the drag and drop, just give all available blueprints in the right list.
Let me then set the wanted amount of research with mousewheel or something.

3) Improve blueprint informations. Let me see ME&PE in the symbol or something.

While it can be a benefit, the standings are an obstacle most of the time. I'd get rid of the standing requirements for anchoring POS altogether.

Other potential benefits of working in the same corps:
- Separation of duties (specialization)
- Sharing of underutilized BPOs and POS
- Timezone coverage

This. And if the client would remember the last used values that would help a hell of a lot.

Ugh, completely forgot about this during the survey. Doing the daily S&I reminded me:

Something ought to be done about be 1000 item cap, such as making BPCs stackable. As it stands, organizing large numbers of BPCs is a nightmare of overflow containers, since each container can only hold 1000 copies.

Due to the way corporation standings update, as long as all your S&I alts have null standings as they should, you only need to hire a standings booster once. After corp standings update to the booster's standings, they will never change again.

T1 manufacturing has 5 skills which affect it:
Industry: Time to make something (and as a requirement)
Production Efficiency: The additional waste due to low skill.
Supply Chain Networking: Start jobs remotely.
Mass Production and Advanced Mass Production: for additional lines.

T1 research (ME, PE, copying)
Lab operations, Advanced Lab operations: number of slots you have.
Metallurgy: reduces ME research time.
Research: reduces PL research time
Scientific Networking: remote jobs.


T2 manufacturing has additional skill requirements for actually making the thing. No 'modifier' skills.

T2 /invention/ requires a bunch of science skills. You can get started with just 2. More open up more blueprints to invent from. You also need at least one Encryption methods skill. Other than that, it's the regular skills for research.

T3 needs some more skills (I've not touched it yet).

Refining needs some skills too, to reduce the waste.

So, all in all, not really /that/ many skills needed. Compare it to PvP.



Edit (I posted late, due to work expecting me to actually do some work):
Getting the information /in/ game isn't that easy to do, when it's as wide ranging as it is.

Mostly, referring people to the wiki makes sense. As it's 'official' documentation for the game.

I trust my alts. (I don't have alts. )

No.

Handling trust is the single most important thing in Eve, not trust itself.

The problem is how the corp interface does not facilitate handing out trust in proper doses. It is all or nothing. Give someone the roles to fuel a POS, and he can bring down every single POS you have. Give someone some shares, and come back after a week's vacation to find your entire corp stripped and taken over.

The problems of S&I, beyond the clickfest, are a collision of S&I with corp roles, hangar management and unintuitive rights management combined with a lack of granular roles.

I'd love to be able to, say, rent out my unused BPO portfolio to others, but in doing so I am opening myself up to tremendous risks that I do not feel adequately equipped for, because managing rights is confusing and error prone.

Seriously, managing ACL in a Windows Active Directory environment, which is what I do at work, is LESS error prone and confusing than Eve's corp role management. MS is definitely not known for clear-cut designs, you know...


We are talking about a tremendous amount of money here. My pvp ships are entirely transitory, my 0.0 assets are already written off and replaced. My BPO portfolio, empire infrastructure, my altcorps, established processes...those are my guarantee for being able to live care-free. I don't have many corp roles in my 0.0 corp because everyone understands how dangerous role creep can be. I won't give out roles to others in my altcorps, because I could lose my pension fund if I miss some obscure mechanic.


As an aside, the fact that I make my money in empire so I can afford living in 0.0 is completely ass-backwards, but it is how it is...

Did you just try to out-bitter me? I thought that was impossible.