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What about task specific UI setups? The current EVE UI is very general and serves every single game function there is. What if there could be an exploration UI that deemphasizes everything but scanning, defensive dscanning, and things like that? Combat UI, and so on and so forth. These would have some defined presets from CCP, but we would be free to customize them as needed.

For new players, it could start putting EVE in the context of "hats" that you wear at different times.. I'm a combat pilot, I'm an explorer, I run missions, and so on. It would highlight the functions that are most important to a task. Like.. hey, it seems like defensive dscanning is pretty important while I'm mining.

For older players, it would help them manage the multiple things they can do in EVE without keyboard shortcut carpal. I play on a pretty small screen so windows have to come and go.. and on top of that, sometimes I need specific settings in Overview, certain tabs in other windows, filters on some other windows, certain chat channels I need open for some things I do, etc. etc. Maybe the ship I'm in doesn't have a ton of modules but it does have drones.. so a smaller allocated area for the reticule with the drone window visible and larger.

I definitely think the per account (and sometimes per alt) specific UI settings and general inability to clone them, or clone specific aspects of them is a bit backward in EVE. Even the so-called Overview settings that can be saved don't save colortags, or background colors. What do people with multiple accounts and maybe 2 or 3 computers do besides manually clone these over? There are tools like Garpa of course, and copying stuff from user directories.. but I think an in-game solution would help "un-geekify" this process considerably.

Edit: Thanks OP, I noticed my wallet flashing when I logged in just now. I'll add this to my newbie secret santa fund, thank you!

^^ Vyl,

I think we could take a different tack.

Remove all minerals from hisec, except for missions which would be in their own deadspace pockets. Redistribute to lowsec.

I'd suggest moving L3-L4s to lowsec too, but maybe that's too much controversy for one post.

I'm not sure how "smarter freighting" could be motivated similarly. Any ideas?

Sorry to see you leave.

After 3 years of playing the game it seems to me that most of the content PVE/PVP is aimed at sub BS size hulls.

Battleships have seen alot done to them recently to make them more useful so a while longer before having anything done to them
seems appropiate.

Now for Cap ships. it seems that once you get to carriers and higher all the "flavouring" disappears, There are large holes in variation etc.

I feel that we need a 'few' more variants mixed in with the current CAP's

I bellieve that we need something along the line of say pirate assault dreads which sit some where between a Titan and a Dread.

This could be achieved with a module similar to the siege module but with a different set of stats <-- been trying to work on a idea for F&I for a while.

or a different hull which has stats which are a mix of Carrier and Dread.

Having something meaningful for HIGH SP chars is always a challenge.

So if you say have a Mordus and SOE Assault Dead could help this.

But as always you have to try and fit new ships in while not making old hulls redundant.

What I see from these comments repeatedly is a call for more "exploration" or uncontrolled space. Kinda like wormholes of old before they became a playground for a handful of political, vocal old men who just sit there rejecting change.

I, too, think that the current map, including wormholes, just gets too small too quickly. I know there is talk of building stargates and the like but any limitation on space size is just too restrictive to explorers, and I'm pretty sure there will only be a handful of new systems you can build stargates to. I believe this because I have seen calls for more space before and the old timers and "the game is about PvP only" people want to restrict the size of space to force easy fights.

Put me on the list of those who want to be able to fly way off the system map and find planets, moons etc. that are on no map. If someone eventually finds me and brings their friends they can of course shoot me up, but that's something that will take them a long time given the uncharted distances involved.

I don't want to remove the right to random PvP, but I also don't think the game should be so restricted as to force this way of life on everyone. The "sandbox" is highly restricted in this regard and more like a large alliance blob theme park.

:) 6 years here, running on my last account till the time runs out because I cannot play "dreams" or "visions" and I have thrown more then enough money towards a company that roughly every 6 months manages to upset/anger its player base for whatever reason, usually lying or plain not listening.

What I expect from a gaming company like CCP is that they make a game that is fun to play. Lots and I mean lots of things in EVE are anything but fun and/or get beyond boring repetitive at some point, sooner rather then later. Or worse, they feel like a second job.

Why do I still play the original Starcraft Broodwar for example? Because no session is ever the same. Even as old as that game is, it still can surprise me and it's still fun (see EVE mission for not being fun).
Why do I hang on Fallout 3 as if its my gaming saviour, because the options to go through that game are near limitless (Exploration in EVE is basically every single time the same, no random events everything scripted and precise like an atomic clockwork).

I know those are not MMO's yet there is so much, actually way too much not geared to multiplayer play in EVE that you find yourself lots of time playing solo since there is not much or nothing to gain when playing together or even possible. Lets not forget that if you play together you can expect a knife in your back if you're not careful enough. At some point I realised that's not fun (for me).

I've played solo, joined other corporations, founded my own, got into an alliance, saw it grow, went into null, saw the alliance fall apart, got wardecced a few times, got brutally betrayed by a guy that I knew for 4 years and trusted with my life and saw all my in game friends log off one by one to find more fun in other games till it was just me and my alts.


Two years ago I realised that EVE is a trap, a beautiful carefully constructed trap. Even now that I have no desire what so ever to play, I still keep my skill queues going, fly a minute or 10 around, ponder & wonder then dock up and log off.

That's sad somehow when I still remember my first days in EVE and how blown away I was by its virtual magic.




Anywho, OP fly safe. Hope like me you'll log back in one day and find a whole different game that's much more fun to play.

Thank you, sir. I'm glad someone else sees that purple is a needed addition to the corp logo color palette!

Propose that CCP adopt a new motto:

If it isn't broken, improve it. If it is broken, fix it.

Fire improves 99% of all things

Also fixing Alliance interfaces, allow Alliance roles, the mailing system could do with an overhaul to allow easier communication.

Fleet screens need tidying up and making clearer.

Oh and a UI that doesn't take all of the real estate ever especially when you are scanning/living in dangerous space.


It would be nice if the D-Scan gave on sceen notification of incoming ships, with the distance detected being dependant on skills. Then when you D Scan you get a good idea which direction you are likely to get mobbed from and can make adjustments. it still won't stop probers landing on zero on you, but it will free up some real estate and allow more intuitive spaceship style controls. i find it hard to believe that near immortals are reduced to actually manually activating things within the bubble.

Here's my thoughts

Complete re-write of PvE experience, why in the age of spaceships do I have to go begging for work? never heard of a phone call? "Hi John, you got anything for me to do today?"

Better (higher paying be that LP or ISK) missions for good agent standing, I could have worked my arse off for the agent and still he gives me a crappy mission

More variety of missions, seem to get the same old missions all the time, despite the number of missions available, I look at the list of missions and while I get some are 'faction based' there's loads I haven't done.

Scrap the bounty system, it doesn't work, it's just a badge of honor for scammers, griefers and pirates.

Limit the ability to biomass characters, if a char is only a week old, why are you biomassing them? have an timer related to the age of the char, the newer the char the longer the biomass timer is.

have a session timer for jita local chat, want to spam your isk doubling service every minute then it will cost you isk to do it.

Give the evemail system a good kicking, the ability to opt out of corp / alliance mails would be handy if you've got alts in the corp.

Web based skill change, I know they want you to log in and play the game, but if you're unable to log in to the game then it'd be nice to be able to sort skills.

while I'm on the skills thing, have an account skill queue rather than a character skill queue, so you can queue up another chars skill for when the current char skill finishes.

As a newbie, some feelings wich could help me a lot to convince my friends to come here.
Sorry for my english

1) A not so dynamic universe.

Is Eve a sandbox game with PvP inside and not a PvP game with sandbox elements ?
Some peoples like to be combatant, some peoples like to be farmer, but no combatant without farmer.
If it is a real sandbox game, then all kind of peoples should be able to find a way to play it, including "carebears" (as opposed to "psychopathic genocidal maniacs").

Eve Universe is about humans expanding in space.
If no alien invasion/full wars between majors factions, civilized areas (high-sec) should slowly expand and the "Borders" (low-sec) should move further and discover new territories, new resources, new dangers.

Civilization is about making money and they really dislike all money sink : disorders, pirates, terrorists.
Such peoples should not be allowed in civilized areas without very good false papers and if they make to much damages, they should be eliminated (and if eliminating them physically is not possible, go after their resources).
But security cost money, so civilized areas like taxes.

Security = Taxes.
Fredoom = Risk.

Yes, I like Mike Resnick a lot ... ie "Santiago".

2) To much external tools, to much paperwork.

If I want to fit a vessel, I want first to try different configurations and then have my skills list/buy list wich I can directly use in my skills list queue and market window. We are in the future and we can't use daemons ?
External tools exists, but why is this not integrated in the game (you know, while sitting on my couch in a station) ?

Same when I work with my map to prepare a trip and want to know what happen the last 24hours, where are hotspots, ...

I worked two days only to configure my overview windows (with the help of an other external source). Didn't played a lot in this time.

3) A hardcore interface

While flying, i have a drone window, an overview window, a chat window, a targeting window, a peoples & places window (try to find out how to put my places bookmarks in my overview window) and a scanning window.
Like the vessel interface, but all this windows don't allow me to enjoy the "spacecraft" sensation.
Perhaps letting stacks different windows as we stack different windows with a browser, using tabs and blinking tabs titles with alerts we could set ?
Perhaps let us compose the content of windows from different elements or allowing interfaces mods from players ?
Perhaps letting the option of a graphical view of a situation in opposition to full text ?

Most reading (ie EveUnivesity) give excellent advices on how to use interface, but it seems the game don't take them in account.

4) A bit more human.
CCP has stopped their Vampire project.
Would it be possible to use what was already done for this other project to finish Incarna without using to much internal ressources ?