Test Server Feedback

I looked at it for a bit, much easier to use and the filters allow to find what you want fast.

Comments:

Still to big. Why does it take up the full screen?

New items and clothing don't have rendering yet.

Access points worked.

Access point on the character selected screen jumped from the left to the right and stayed there.

More items please

I think it looks pretty good. Putting it under the "business" section will mean it's probably forgotten, though. Maybe give it its own section of the base Neocom menu?

likewise

Feedback:

There is no "close" button if you have selected an item and if the selected item is a ship skin, it's still just a picture, not a model viewer.

Scrolling now works everywhere (nice)

Switching between categories requieres repeated clicking:

If "battleship" and "amarr" is selected

selecting "cruiser" selects all cruisers

and after that "amar" has to be clicked twice to select only amarr cruisers the first click doesn't do anything as far as I can see.

Also the category thing isn't consistent: variations by race or gender are toggles but the types of size or apparel piece are not.

Unrelated: if this is the pilot for a new general interface design please, be very careful and shoot this by the CSM and think about massive amounts of customization. This current store design... I don't like it. But it's more functional than last time.

It is with some measure of resigned sadness that I see that the EVE developers, a group of people I universally respect and admire, have missed an opportunity, on consecutive attempts now, to create an uplifting user experience where it comes to offering a superior shopping environment. I wonder why that is.

New Eden is a universe of unsurpassed marvel, of besotting beauty, of mesmerising complexity, created by people of whom we cannot make any other assumption than that they are kissed by the gods themselves. There is no other explanation for their ability to create a universe that makes the heart sing with joy, the soul rise with boisterous bravado, the spirit lifted by the sheer exuberant zest for life that makes me take to the space lanes with the boundless happiness of a newborn calf cavorting across the meadow on the first glorious day of Spring. EVE Online is an act of digital love making on a global scale.

This is why it is nothing short of baffling to see that this power of divine creation does not, or at least not noticeably, extends to the profane art of selling products to customers. I am presented with an interface, a box to click and complete a transaction. The pristine minds that give us the ephemeral beauty of the lush garden of New Eden appear to be coy where it comes to enticing us, the valued customer, with an incentive to part with our hard-earned [insert your local currency].

Why am I not lured to the Nobel exchange, or whatever the moniker du jour is, with an irresistible value proposition? Why am I not bedazzled with a buyer experience that makes it seem as if the late, great Steve Jobs was still among us? How is this online store not filled to the brim with all manner of goodies and services that inspires us to throw our credit card at the screen?

We are presented with an early 18th century Reykjavik fish market:

“Hey, Dani, what do you have for us, today?”

- Fish. Cod mainly. We had cod last week, and the week before. Next week we’ll have more cod. Maybe some shark.

“Do you have anything else?”

- It’s fish. Look, there it is. It’s 150 ISK/kilo. What do you want from me?

We are presented with a ‘working environment’, something that hopefully survives the QA review. We are not presented with a customer experience that makes it feel as if we truly are an elite member of New Eden society. And the larger question there is: when are our overlords in far and fair Reykjavik going to see the incandescent spark of light that makes them understand who we are in the New Eden context and what that tells them about our expectation for the goods and services on offer in a store that caters to the elite?

I know that this moment will come, their visions for a better future are far brighter than the dim candle that lights my cranial cavity. I just don’t know when. I do hope it’s SOON[TM].

Why is the New Eden Store in-game? Given that it's a player experience rather than a capsuleer experience, why isn't it on the same site as Account Management?

Options for in-game storefronts would be the ability to use Aurum in place of LP for some items in the various LP stores around New Eden (for example, allowing you to buy a Nefantar Thrasher from the Ammatar Consulate, or a Wyrkomi Caracal from Wyrkomi).

Where are our Incarna "Establishments" where we can enter a store and walk around perusing the goods on offer? Custom uniforms, Amarrian robes hand-stiched by Intaki virgins, President Forian's personally styled sunglasses, and vials of soil from ancient Earth, with models of ships to put on the mantlepiece in your CQ, or real ships with which to decorate your hangar (or billboard), still and motion capture of the marvels of New Eden for pilots to display on their huge wrap-around screens.

Having the New Eden Store as a side-track from character selection just feels odd to me.

this many times over.

Ah this was mentioned in the previous post regarding the store, but I neglected to include it above, the launcher is required to access the store, circumnavigating the launcher will result in the message you saw. I'll update the original post.

If you were in fact using the launcher then please submit a bug report with as much detail as possible regarding what you were doing up until seeing that screen.

Yeah same here aswell.