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Bulk actions to make invention and manufacturing less laborious
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Caracas
Resilience.
The Initiative.
#1 - 2014-04-07 04:50:44 UTC
Can we please have the ability to submit multiple manufacturing jobs in one go please? This would be feasible where the parameters of each job are identical and would negate the need for mindless clicking which does not seem to add any value whatsoever.

Also, can you add a check-box to the Invention job result feedback that doesn't insist I keep blindly hitting "Enter" to find out if my invention job succeeded or not. For those of us that don't want/need to review the results of each job, the option should be given to not prompt the result in a dialog box. I'm running 50+ jobs at a time and hitting Enter 50 times without looking at the screen seems rather pointless..

Thanks
Minnie Ryder
Flippin DaBird Corporation 2
#2 - 2014-04-07 06:09:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Minnie Ryder
Let's twist this a bit more, might as well go all in when we request the impossible (I think this is too intertwined with POS code to be touchable).

Having the player be there and do each individual step in R&I isn't, or at least shouldn't, be necessary. We're capsuleers, with ISk representing oodles of planetary cash. Of course we hire managers for this kind of job.

We should be able to give the manager a BPO, or BPC set, and tell him to run 50 invention jobs, or to run until I've got a certain amount of succeeded jobs. Provided there're materials enough, of course, which will be displayed.

The same goes for research, of course. Give the manager a BPO, tell him what level you want it at. He'll tell you when it'll be done, in total, without having to chunk it into 30 day periods. All needed materials should of course be turned over as well.

For manufacturing, its much the same thing. Give the manager a BPO (or BPC set), any component BPO(s) and the materials, then tell him how many of the finished product you want. He'll give you a time estimate.

The manager of course has his own queue, independent of the current system. No limit to adding things to it, or canceling jobs that haven't been started in actual invention/research/manufacture yet.
Alundil
Rolled Out
#3 - 2014-04-07 12:18:46 UTC
Only half sarcastic;

Does this manager have his own skill for these things? Or does he somehow get to magically use yours from x LY away?

'Manager' aside I think being Annie to batch some of these things is good.

I'm right behind you
Minnie Ryder
Flippin DaBird Corporation 2
#4 - 2014-04-08 07:01:32 UTC
Alundil wrote:
Does this manager have his own skill for these things? Or does he somehow get to magically use yours from x LY away?


Most of us don't hire unqualified workers, so he'd of course be able to handle what you can handle.
Caracas
Resilience.
The Initiative.
#5 - 2014-05-12 04:20:05 UTC
You've broadened my suggestion which is great. Perhaps a new 'management' concept could be introduced where you train up a skill to be able to command industry at a more macro/managerial level rather than being the 'click slave' yourself. This could extend to invention, manufacture, planetary, and so on. The 'manager' function doesn't have to be like a char. It could be an item that you purchase which you then install into the factory/facility whatever you are using, and then it enables activities to occur in bulk.

I know they like us to be online and playing the game, but really, mindless clicking is a turnoff and I'd rather spend my Eve time on more productive (or destructive) activities!!

Ideas welcome to develop this management functionality further ...