Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Suggestion: Add fitted Cap Boosters as valid "charge" in contracts
Keywords: UI, Contracts, Fitting
Note: Currently Cap Boosters (and their navy versions) are one of the only charges that cannot be contracted without having to be removed from the fitting prior to finishing the contract, while thelike of ammo and scrips stay fitted just fine across contracts.

Suggestion: Signature ignore list should persist
Keywords: ui, scanning, signature, ignore
Note: The signature ignore list for a system is currently being cleared upon leaving system.
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For my part, this is mainly observed while doing frequent scanning runs in null to hunt down relic and data sites.
I usually set long routes, anywhere between 30 to 60 jumps, parts of which I sometimes have to backtrack a few systems.
When I initially enter a system with multiple signatures, I start probing them out until I am able to identify its type i.e. : wormhole, relic, data etc.
I don't fully scan down (100%) the signatures I am not interested in, so I add every detected wormhole and combat site to the ignore list in order unclutter the screen and focus on the important ones.
When I come back to a previously scanned system, that ignore list has been emptied; I have to scan down the same signatures I had previously ignored unless I kept a seperate list (pen and paper or copy/paste the signatures to an ingame window).
Even the copy/paste method is inefficient as you don't get which system this signature was detected in unless you had typed it in manually; this list can become extensive and painful to search through if you had not associated every signature to a system.

As far as implementation is concerned, I don't see this being a real issue for the server as this can be stored locally in the client and reset through user action or client restart after downtime. Also, stored signatures that despawned could be cleared automatically upon entering a system as a result of performing a quick compare between stored ignored signatures and the scanner detected ones.

Suggestion: Forwarding mails should not cut off parts of mail message
Keywords: mail, forwarding
Note: Currently the mail system seems to cut off the last parts of a mail if the mail is longer than 70 lines (in my small scale testing). It could be based on characters rather than lines, but I'm not entirely sure though. It's very annoying however to have to manually paste in the text whenever you forward the mail, ESPECIALLY if the cut off text contains links to items as there's currently no easy way to copy + paste item links.

There's a group "Datacores", which has, well, datacores. However, you can't filter for this group. If you try to filter by groups, there's nothing in the drop-down list between "Commodities" and "Decryptors". It would be nice if we could filter by that, and it's a surprising oversight.

Suggestion: Add labels to hover on contacts
Keywords: Local
Note: in addition to the online icon of contacts in local add a popup that shows the labels assigned to that character when you hover over them in the local chat window.

I.E. in local you see xxx who you have set as a contact assigned to the market trader label. When you hover over their name in local it should show the label name assigned to them.

Another go:

Suggestion: Modifier key/rightclick menu option to open URLs in external (desktop) web browser.
Keywords: web links, IGB, external browser
Notes:
Links to http://secure.eveonline.com/ already forcibly do so.
The number of web sites that the IGB has trouble with continues to increase (e.g. google docs newer spreadsheets crash the IGB example, imgur album images are not visible).
Adding this as an optional way to open links makes sure that those playing fullscreen on windows don't find their client minimized to the task bar.
Default modifier might be CTRL key. Removing the modifier could make opening URLs in the desktop browser the default behaviour.

Suggestion:
Have an option to set a character state to "Character does not need to train skills" and show that state in the character selection screen.
Keywords:
skill training, QOL, UI
Notes:
I plan on training another char than the primary char on one of my accounts and thus want to have the primary char not training anything. However, I won't use the secondary char on that account a lot and still play more with the primary char. Now, every time I enter the game with the primary char, which is not training, I get a notification as well as the flashing Character Sheet, which I need to click to open in order to get rid of the flashing.

Instead I would like to tick a check box in the options to say that this char is not supposed to train at all and that I am aware of that fact and don't need to be reminded of that state beyond the Char selection screen.

I do not desire to use MCT to prevent that behavior, as I do not have the need to train 2 Chars on 1 account.

Suggestion:

Cargo container / Jetcan - mouse over tooltip to show time till expiration / self destruction.

Keywords:
UI

Notes:
Easy add to UI that makes the Jetcan mining experience better.

Suggestion:

Undo in scan probe environment both for dragging probes, changing orientation, and changing camera.

Keywords:
UI

Notes:

Many times I'll accidentally zoom too much or little, or grab and drag the blob of scan probes when I intended to rotate. You can never easily get back to the x, y, z coordinates you were just at.

I"d like to right-click and choose undo or press control-z.

Suggestion : Provide a way to display how much dps and what kind of damage you're receiving...

Keyword : UI, dps, resists

Notes : This could give you info to change your fitting to be more effective in what resists you choose to boost if you're inadequately tanked, and if over-tanked you could reallocate slots to other kinds of modules.