EVE General Discussion

Sequence of events:

- I am hauling some stuff through low-sec using the cloak/MWD trick.
- I see a friend login on his new out-of-corp alt, so I invite him to a chat.
- He instead joins the group chat channel.
- I jump through a gate into a gate camp and hit "align" to a celestial.
- As I hit align, my friend rejects the private conversation, which results in a pop-up message stating so.
- The pop-up message overtakes the screen and no commands work until it is closed.
- By the time I do so, I am scrammed webbed and already into armor.

It's funny enough, so I'm not whining about it in the sense that I think the kill should be reversed or reimbursed. I will ask though that CCP change all in game pop-up messages to not take over the screen. That includes rejected messages, 1 hour until downtime, etc.

I wonder how many cell phones lock out all vehicle controls until you acknowledge that your friend ignored your text?

Though I do agree with the sentiment, OP's fault.



I somwehat agree, especially when people are spamming join convo to freighter pilots for obvious reasons. However there are exceptions, like safety warning messages and similar "you are about to do something incredibly dumb. Continue?" messages.

i have no such funny stories....
However i agree: dialog boxes with mostly useless information are 20th century....

Oh **** this is a good idea. You see someone decloak at a gate, click to yellowbox then send a conversation request immediately.

Edit: If it's a multi-person gate camp then monitor Local for new entrants, wait 55 seconds (if no one appears), and have your group send convo requests.

And if you're a freighter pilot, just set your CSPA to 50 billion trillion. The gate camper gets a popup, grimaces in frustration, as you quietly warp away unscathed.

Max is a million i believe.
As a noob i thought it went to me, heh heh.
There is a reject all option in esc menu, but yeah, doing chat channels while jumping a hot gate, you pooped your bed now lie in it.

I wish CSPA charges were paid directly to the guy you're trying to convo. Set your CSPA to 1b, and hope someone reads it as 1m.



Killing is just a means of communication

They should replace those with a blaring foghorn. Should fill the same purpose without blocking the interface.

I've lived in Delve and Feythabolis. These galactic news bulletins are getting real tiresome.

"How about a don't show again option?"
"No, get bent. It's breaking news. It's obviously important, it's been breaking for years."

IIRC, those can be closed with a simple tap on Esc ?
If not, then at the very least, CCP should do that, even if they CBA to fix the last blocking prompts...

And yes, I also agree that it's bad design - the only blocking prompt should be the one telling you you lost connection to the server