Test Server Feedback

Greetings Sisi pilots,

We have now activated the new notifications system on Singularity. For more info on the feature, please check out this devblog:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/opt-in-notification-changes-for-oceanus/

This feature is opt-in, so you will have to push a button in the ESC menu under the General Settings tab to turn it on. Please report any bugs via bug reports, and general feedback and suggestions in this thread.

Cheers,
CCP Turtlepower // Team Pirate Unicorns

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Known issues:
* Tooltips for the notifications contain debug information, will be fixed next week
* Right clicking on notifications in the settings window will bring up debug features, will be removed next week
* Some notifications are missing icons
* Various issues when UI scaling
* When scrolling in history view, moving the mouse cursor away from window will close the window
* No standings are displayed on contact notifications
* No sound

awesome!

I'm pretty sure you can already do that.

Oh while you're working with notifications you know what would be fantastic? System/station links in locator agent notifications, and access to that through the notification's context menu in this new UI.

I assume that the trigger to enter moving mode for the notifications is set in a way that you don't accidentaly shove it around. Instead of right clicking you also can left click and hold until the widget gets a little larger, then move and release the mouse button to drop the widget.

right click for a few seconds

Might have missed it but is there a clear history button for the notifications?

Can we please have configurable notifications?

I want to get a notification every time somebody says my name in any given channel.
I also want a notification every time my ship collides with somebody and the name of that ship and player.

I know that this post is far too long, but it's very late and I'm getting talkative. Additional argument agains simplifier it is that you haven't spent enough time on planning (at last this is my opinion) what do you need to do, so reading it is going to be your punishemt (I know that it might don't have much sense, but I hope that you'd get my point).

Some feedback

Notifications are looking much better now, but I think that they're far from how they supposed to work. A few ideas:

1. MANAGE FILTERS/SETTINGS.

Nobody is perfect.

a) short version
We need some presets / filters that can be saved and easy changed (something like overview / scanner filters).

b) TLDR version
You cannot make a set of settings that'd be perfect for any situation. Depends on player actions he or she might need different notification, so those settings needs to be adjusted.
When a player is on a hunt, or if he or she is spying on other corp / player watchlist is going to be [almost] the only important thing. Everything else is nothing but distraction. When it's done a different set of setting might be needed. For example that player may return to his or her base and want to check if any of his corpmate's done something stupid, or check if there is a tower that's asking for some fuel. With the new system we have so many options and there is no way to reconfigure the whole system every time.. and I can think of situations when a player'd like to change his or her notifications a few times during a single minute.
If it isn't enough, think about human error. If a player needs to change those setting from time to time, there is no way to remember about all checkboxes. Some of them will be missed from time to time and that player is not going to be aware about that. What may the consequences be?

I think that we need a way of saving and changing settings. A simple combobox with a few buttons (or a context menu) should be enough. I don't think that this new notification system's going to be very useful without it.

2. Limits.

My name is Legion for we are many.

a) short version
We need a way to limit number (or time period) of notifications.

b) TLDR version.
I can see that those notifications are somehow limited in the history (f.e. I'm not able to see notifications for skills finished more than 1 month ago), but it isn't enough. This time I'm skipping examples, but there can be many situations when player'd like to keep his history short (or to see something beyond the default limit for one notification). A tickbox and slider / textbox should be enough to limit the number of notifications displayed in the history. It'd be nice to have something to adjust the time period (a slider? a combo box?). It should make notification much more useful.

3. Duplicated history entry for adding a new contact to watchlist.

Double the fun

I added a new contact to my watchlist and I got 2 notifications about his status. It didn't matter if the contact was online or offline (I tried it twice).

Shame on you QAs

4. No notification about adding/removing contacts.



I suppose that is wasn't implemented yet (you know that it's going to be released in less than a week. Don't you?). I can see that other notifications are missing as well (like podded corpmates), but it might be caused, because there wasn't such event since that system was released on sisi.

5. Optimize it.

"Happy new year" - IE

I know that I'm running 3 clients in the same time and my computer is not as fast as it could be, but the Notifications Settings window loads for a few seconds and it seems to be a very stressful action for my client. I'd understand if there is a fancy 3d preview of... whatever, but it's a simple configuration window. Check it.

6. Some options should be hidden / greyed.

These aren't the droids you're looking for

I think that you should hide or mark settings that don't have any sense for the current pilot. For example a corp member with right roles won't get any notication about new applications for a corporation or that towers are running out of fuel. New players are going to be overwhelmed with all those settings anyway, so you could at last make it a little simpler for them.

7. Context menus.

You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

It's nice that clicking on notification is linked to different actions, but I think that it should be more useful (and consistent with the existing UI) to have a context menu at last for entities like pilots status changes (it's linked with a pilot profile), missions (it should be an agent context menu, or at last a default option to speak with that agent), etc.

8. Sound notifications.

Morning Starbuck. What do you hear?

I know that there is no chance to deliver it as part of the next update, but I think that it's a good oportunity to manage sound notifications ("Skill training completed", etc.). I think that you could add another checkbox that'd enable/disable sound notification for that action.

9. Corporation / alliance logos.

Here you have the chance to be part of something much bigger than yourself

I've noticed that corporation notifications (like tax rate change) use some kind of a dummy icon. I think that it should be changed to a corporation logo (or alliance logo for an alliance entries).

It might be caused because of a late hour, but I don't think that duplicating this post is a good idea. DEVs should read it here anyway and they can choose to use my feedback or not. What is more, I suppose that most of possible comments about it would be "TLDR". I know what I'm captable of when I should be sleeping for a long time;)