Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm not quite sure how to resolve this, exactly, but I wish some of the settings in the settings tab of the market were easier to find. I guess what I mean is actually that I had no idea what kinds of useful settings were in there, so I didn't make use of them. This is probably a little thing development-wise, but I'm not sure how to do it design-wise.

For a practical suggestion, can you make "mark my orders" default to on instead of off? I feel like this is never not a net gain for people, and, if it is something they don't like, they can turn it off.

Suggestion: Fix/ improve the import/ Export of overviews.

Keyword: overview, import, export, colortags, User interface, UI

Notes: Import / export does not cover background and colourtags

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Picture the scenario, you get home from work and log into EVE. You want to get PVPing and are looking forward to some fights with your favorite FC and buddies. As soon as the client loads you notice something is wrong, your local chat has pictures of people at the side and the font is too big. Your overview is reset, it's likely all you little channels that you chat to friends have disappeared into oblivion. All your hard work of careful measuring out the overview boxes is undone and you're left with the standard EVE UI. Disaster!

This scenario happens to me far too often, it's a real killer and makes me want to log off and play something else. Even with the current overview import/ export functions it's still 15 minutes of fiddling to get back to where you were and it'll never quite be the same.

My suggestion for a 'little thing' is to improve the import/ export functions so they include your colour tag and background settings, as the current import function gives you a horrible white overview and is still a pain in the arse to fix, which should be the purpose of the import/ export overview settings in the first place. All it should take it 1 click to get back to where you were so that's what i'd like to see to improve Eves gameplay so we can get pewpewing instead of fiddling with menus :)

I believe garpa UI does this already, or so i am told ( i only found out about this today after the umpteenthoverview reset), so it should be codable. Why not bring this function to EVE itself so people who don't know about, or want to download a third party app, can benefit?

Would be great if (1) the client remembered the size and positioning of EVEmail message windows that open on double-click and (2) the Notes app had 'undo' feature.

Have the R-Click in space menu highlight where you are.

Example:

I'm at asteroid belt 4-2

That belt would appear highlighted in the R-Click menu so I don't have to carefully hover over it to see that's where I am.

(I know it tells me in the top left but I'd like the R-Click menu to tell me too)

Suggestion: Display tracking speed in degrees/sec in addition to rad/sec
Keywords: overview, modules, tracking speed

Note: rad/sec is an inferior method of measurement as the human mind deals better with whole numbers than decimals and fractions
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For the love of GOD can we have tracking speed displayed in terms of degrees/sec in the gun info screen? Rad/sec is nice and all but. Come on. Please? Just show both measurements.

Suggestion: Azimuth/Altitude direction readout

Keywords: tactical overlay, ui, mockup, dscan,

Note: Today all bearings and orientation in space are horribly vague guesswork

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Difficulty: text field of already client-side available information

Benefits: all manual navigation in space, hunting, probing, team play

Drawbacks: might need to be toggleable (overhead), or in a separate mini-window (like FPS)

Tried to narrow dscan from 15° to 5°?
Tried to MJD anywhere with accuracy?
Tried to communicate WHERE someone went in more exact terms than 'up' or 'down'?

Our space ships live in a sphere. Tactical overlay provides 4 horizontal directions, camera limitations provide an idea of 'up' or 'down'. Other than that, it's everyone's guess.

Players can make educated guesses, halves, quarters of right angles. Some poking around a center spot with ever smaller dscan angles. But it's tedious, and frustratingly inexact.




Azimuth / Altitude is time-proven in navigation and astronomy. And easily understood. (Azimuth, in pictures, Wikipedia)

The sphere is already there, our ship at the center, the information is there, the camera tie-in with dscan is already there -- simply allow client software to show it.

Here is a mockup with UI integrated read out on top, or in, alternatively, an FPS-alike dedicated window.

Suggestion: Change asteroid scanner to show volume of ore and not quantity.

Reason: the cycle is based on volume and not quantity so I have a chart in front of me for each type of ore since i have to convert the quantity to a volume to know when to stop the cycle.

Example of problem:

If im mining scordite and the the scanner tells me that 9195 units remaining then i stop the cycle at 35%.

If im mining plagioclase on the other hand and the quantity is 9195 units remaining i need to stop the cycle at 80%.

If this change is made:

For X volume of ore the point I need to stop the cycle will always be Y% (regardless of which ore i am mining).

Posted this on the old topic, got recommended to post here.

- Replace the "Map" button at the Neocom menu with a "Maps" one that splits into "System map" and "Star map" when hovered by the mouse, just like the Business button splits into Contracts, Market, etc. Having to change maps through the Map window can be quite tedious, specially when you don't remember where did you put it last time.

- Allow to un-target by Crtl+click, in the same way we can target with that combination. To avoid unwanted untargeting by a missed click, perhaps Crtl+right click for example? It's tedious to have to select and click the untarget button each time you want to...

Save the ISK amount I paid for an item in the item itself. If I mouse over for the market price, it would then calculate how much ISK I would get if I sell the item.