EVE Information Portal

There will never be
* An [IMG] tag - no pics here
* Good karma system - current "likes only" system is pretty false and deceiving - anyone can get any number of likes for his main with his twinks (any alt will make this twice efficient)
* Any polls - we'll have to use likes as before
* Just a single "reply" button - instead of "post' button for a quick reply AND "reply" button right beside it, which opens a text editor
* The annoying warning of leaving eve-forums will not be removed
* Lettercount cap removed

Also, when I want to answer a person, I do not want to quote all his quotes, and the quotes that were quoted in those quotes (also, when we remember that this counts against our lettercap - the things are turning really grim). These cascade quotes are bad, and if I clean them manually, there will likely be a broken tag, so the post becomes totally illegible.

For these two points - and many more convenient functionality, EVE Forums Gold already is a great Forum Enhancer
1. Embedded Images and videos with a button to show/hide
5. Just click a link and it opens without that warning.

Can't stop promoting it.

Hmmm...how about sorting results by date and whether its CCP member post?

If the forums continue to be the primary source of EVE documentation, this is essential to effective use of time.

As is its hard to find the MOST Current info on any topic given the 10+ years of forum data (not all online but way too much).

And random user comments (especially off topic comments) can bury relevant data.


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what would be even more valuable (but possibly impractical to implement) is a historical list of CCP topic authorities to automatically be applied to results.

(e.g. topic Missiles: CCP NewAuthority 6June2014-14:32:32 to current
CCP Fozzie 5November2011-00:01:01 to 6June2014-14:32:31
etc

Then when users search for rules on missiles resulting posts could limited to the most authoritative or at least those authorities highlighted over CCP posts where non-authorities on missiles may be commenting primarily on some other rule change and only using missiles in an example and perhaps not 100% correctly.)

Seems off topic. Though I agree bounties and kill rights are pretty meaningless for players only flying ships in high sec costing less than 20M-50M -- no matter how many Billions in damage they cause.

LOL - but seriously you might as well complain that EVE doesn't treat habitual criminals differently than single or low count rage violators. That penalties do not get more severe with number of illegal pod/ship kills (longer timers or steep cost to buy off security status).


Though I guess you are talking more about META-META gaming where you penalize (bounty) people for out of game forum comments. Nice REPUBLICAN idea to suppress freedom of speech with PAY to Participate (PLEX to ISK to bounty those whose opinion you hate) and only the elite players can discuss (assumption that bounties cannot be collected and ship not lost).

Nice profit center idea for CCP though in PLEX to bounty and then PLEX to replace ship losses. Each post could show bounties posted because of that post as well as character grand total. CCP could ante up a basic auto-bounty based on the character count of each post to get the bounties rolling. This would make some folk use fewer posts and words per post...which should increase blunt speaking and controversial oversimplifications thus increasing rage bounties for forum posts. Then there is all the revenge-feud bounties forum trash talk can create.

Yup do it - if that provides cash that CCP needs to keep EVE game rolling.
I don't have to post.

How fixing forum penalty for NEW accounts?
This character is about 18 months old. But since I haven't posted much I am restricted by "less than 2 days old".

Actually I am pretty sure I posted to forum for newbie and client help before using this toon. So there is just something broken here.

Why not just use API to pull account age?
Or character age if that is not possible.

If needed you could cache that on Logon or forum server for when forums are up but Tranquility and main DB servers are down. Update cached answer at first Forum login if API is up and use cache answer for all checks afterwards.

This thread needs more people whining about CCP not fixing their broken game or the lag or something. What's happened to all the bad forum trolls?

In seriousness though, these changes sound cool. I'll all for a forum buff.

Improved mobile functionality is a must. Tapatalk integration for the forums at least would be better, but some form of minimalist pageview on mobile devices will be a good compromise.

Add a "Dislike" button. Especially for opening posts from CCP.

When comes the fix to the search function ... ie. when do we get a search function for the forum at all?

not sure if trolling/sarcastic, but I assume it is... so i'll respond with...

I do not think we want website developers, which are not the same as game developers, anywhere near the game. The forums are a part of stuff that needs to be fixed. They can't make changes to the game, so they do there job and fix the forums/website. So.. yea.

I find this stuff funny... "why are you wasting time fixing this when you need to fix this ccp!"

its like people think if you say "I work in the art department" or "I work in the web development department" that it measn they can program in whatever language the game is made in, so they should be doing that and if they are not its a waste of time and money.

That's the same thing as saying "Oh, you are a jet mechanic? Can you fix my car?" odds are no, no they can't. or "Oh your are chemical engineer? well I have this electrical issue I need an engineer for, can you fix it?" Again, no, no they can't.