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For sure! One question: Will this search-enhancement include stuff stored in ships?

IMHO: It's small stuff like this that's makes EVE better...

I can see why hotkeys for dscan could be a problem. Could you add a larger scan button? This would be a large floating button that you could drag around wherever you wanted addition to the unchanged dscan window. For bonus points, make it possible to link it to virtually any action so it becomes "my big red button for that thing what I click all the time and don't want to have to click the annoyingly small interface button for all the time".

D-Scan hotkey is not the solution. The info it provides is so fundamental to alert play, perhaps in second place behind every ship on a grid being able to see every other ship (that isn't cloaked.) Server-side systems (hardware / software) should be improved to the point D-Scan info can be provided AUTOMATICALLY (every 3 seconds) and by doing so, remove the whole keyboard macro / botting question.

It is an improvement, but I'm not entirely convinced.

CCP karkur wrote:

When looking better into it, we quickly ran into this case
- I want -5 dudes in my overview so I check them -> my corp mates that are -5 now all show in the overview, not what I want

Then how about another button(s)!

Example, radio buttons (can choose only one): OR, AND, NEVER, ALWAYS.

This post makes it sound like the ability to name jump clones is coming in Phoebe, which confused me at first because I literally just did this on TQ.

I did not stop improving the game, I moved onto working on something else that was also really frequently requested but less risky.[/quote
By the way, be aware that those fancy keyboards can also simulate mouse clicks anywhere on the screen. Your concern about making it easy to automate scanning is not a valid concern, it's already easy.

I would like to be able to do an advanced search that will include all the faction, deadspace and officer items.

I call that container not hangar floor but "(Current Ship Name)s Cargobay". Seriously - if you strip of single mods you have to have it active anyway so just pull them into cargo and upon switching ships click the shipname on the left of your item hangar.

It's a workaround I admit but I wouldn't necessarily consider something like "hangar floor" necessary. IF however we could get seperate hangars for ourselves (like corp hangars) so we could sort all those bajillion items .... Station Containers are a workaround for that again but they can't be subdivided which is a minor annoyance to me.




and the "Shieldstuff", "Ammo and Charges", "Drones" and whatnot containers I have as well. Though with a container only containing armor items fitting a single module to a single ship is easy enough. Mass fitting however ... ugh.

I am probing a lot and if we can't have a Scan hotkey for server reasons, may I suggest a hotkey for the Analyze button in the probing interface? Nobody will spam that.

I haven't finished reading the whole thing yet but this overview business is crazy. I will admit that I never understood the overview settings fully as they are not fully intuitive, however what I just read about how it used to be is just backwards and the new way while it may give you more tools is even less understandable. Please CCP if you are going to fix this then fix this.

The way the overview setting are now everything has a check box. One would reasonably assume that if you check on a box to have a thing show on your overview then that thing should show. If a thing has multiple check boxes then it still shows and if any of it's criteria are unchecked it would still show for the criteria it matches on. FFS a check box to show a thing should show that thing. Instead you guys chose to make so that if any of the criteria are unchecked that thing does not show even if it meets 5 other criteria that are checked? If you wanted to do it that way then the check box should have been to filter out things. That way you could filter out battleships with a checked box and no battleships would show then it would make sense and be intuitive.

You guys need to hire non-programmers at CCP to look at how you are doing things and let you know if it makes sense to a non-programmer. I get the feeling that you guys are spending a little too much time reading code and not enough time in the human world.

After having read the section on the overview changes not only do I now realize that I don't understand what the check box does now but in the future there will be 3 check boxes that I don't fully understand what they are doing and when they are doing it. I'm telling you either this article was written poorly or your overview settings are worded poorly. I implore you to go back over this and choose wording that makes sense. Maybe you guys need to hire and Linguistics professional there. You know someone that communicates with humans in English instead of someone that communicates with machines in C++ or Python or what ever you use.