EVE General Discussion

You are a idiot. SSO only provides authenication.

Guess what? All the tools that depend need IGB, DONT HAVE AUTHENICATION ISSUES NOR DEPEND on the IGB's trusted headers for auth.

The IGB provides real time data of the current user's location, ship, etc. This is something that SSO cannot provide unless CCP implements a radically different technology for providing this data which they won't....given how much trouble they have running simple cached API servers.

Removing IGB would be very bad. Its a vital part of the daily life of everyone in wspace

in game browser plays a vital part in w-space lifestyle for most of our mapping tools

Removing the IGB would be suicidal behavior, CCP don't go in for that do they?

Unless there is a compelling reason why the IGB makes the game worse than it would be without it, I see no reason to remove it. I use a very large screen, so I can easily have EVE open and another browser in windowed mode. However, it is easier most of the time to just use the IGB unless I need to go to a website that doesn't work so well with it.

Keep the IGB, update it, just don't remove it.

This is rich Kei....I mean Keegan. Rich.

CCP should not remove the IGB, they should be devoting more effort to it, including more integration with the client. I should be able to drag items into the IGB.

If they want to remove it, I could imagine some of the functionality being replicated in CREST, for example things like location/ship type tracking. Until that is available, CCP should not even consider removing it.

Not even close. I've spent all except two to three months of my time in EVE in k-space and have never used a mapping tool, yet I use the IGB on an hourly basis at minimum most days. If I'm out on a fleet for example, I can't really afford to have the RAM use of a full-fledged browser running sometimes. In fact, multiple channels I sit in have shorthanded web links, and I even set up my own wiki to have more stuff quickly available for the IGB. See for example: Linkage

Quite frankly from a user POV I don't even know what could possibly be the effort involved in "maintaining" Chromium 3 code which to my knowledge has had no changes since being added to replace the hilariously old original IGB and was supposed to be modular and easy to update when introduced. I don't mean this to insult any devs, but it makes no sense.

EDIT: RE that last bit, I'm betting any maintenance is to keep the special client headers working, which honestly isn't even something I care too deeply about. I just like having a functional minimal/lightweight browser ingame for ease of use. That said, DOTLAN's Radar, Siggy, and other stuff that make use of the headers are definitely cool sites & site features I and many others would miss if the header side of things was discontinued.

Also, wasn't ease of updates the entire point of Awesomium being used?

If you can make a plugin for ALL the major desktop browsers to let our mappers set our autopilots and read locations from the game, maybe you can remove the IGB. Until that point - NO WAY IN HELL do you even THINK about dumping the IGB.

Checking in as another IGB user. This site is my IGB home page: http://www.ohi.se/eve/linkfit/

The database it uses seems to be slightly out-of-date, but it's still amazingly useful. So much easier than importing fit to a fitting tool, exporting to an EVE saved fit file, and then importing to EVE saved fittings.

Edit: I just noticed this is in the Wormholes forum. To be clear, I came here from twitter and have nothing to do with wspace these days (though I did live there for a few months, once upon a time). The IGB is not only useful for wormholers!