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CCP - now that you're fixing things could you finally improve user interface.
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Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2011-12-15 09:52:31 UTC
By few simple tweaks which have been mentioned more than once:

+ add short cut key to activate repair drones to target
+ add short cut key to activate mining drones to target
+ add option to disable "apply short cut key to preselected overview item" short cut key functionality as it is pain in the butt.
+ add short cut key to new compare tool
+ add short cut key to orca / similar corporate hangar / ore hangar.
+ add short cut key to "open cargo hold of target"
+ add short cut key to "loot all from target"
+ add clear visual indicator above hud when "jump on contact" is active and going to perform the action when ship lands.
+ add option to disable "approach target on open cargo" functionality as it is pain while salvaging with tractor beams and trying to stay still.

Thank you.

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Hiryu Jin
noXCorp
#2 - 2011-12-15 10:05:25 UTC
St Mio
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2011-12-15 10:07:53 UTC
+ add clear visual indicators when orbit/approach/keep at range/jump on contact/etc. is active and on which object/target
+ add short cut key for Scanner window "Analyze"
+ add short cut keys for making selected scanner probes larger/smaller
+ add colour filter option for friendly militia to Overview
Freezehunter
#4 - 2011-12-15 11:10:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Freezehunter
Would be cool if your Tactical Overview would draw green lines or circles based on where your ship is heading if you use approach or orbit or keep at range or manual drive.

I've always wanted some trajectoy information to be displayed on tactical.

There are so many cool things that CCP could do with the Tactical Overlay, including piloting your ship accurately, but I don't know why they don't do it.

Homeworld 2's control system comes to mind, that game had awesome UI...

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Alara IonStorm
#5 - 2011-12-15 11:14:39 UTC
Add a Primary Broadcast System that doesn't involve searching for a name on a laggy overview. Like those windows that pop up when your contact is online except it clicks you onto the Primary.

Besides lag issues it would also help the hearing impaired.
Isabelle Evotori
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-12-15 11:17:13 UTC
Freezehunter wrote:
Would be cool if your Tactical Overview would draw green lines or circles based on where your ship is heading if you use approach or orbit or keep at range or manual drive.

I've always wanted some trajectoy information to be displayed on tactical.

There are so many cool things that CCP could do with the Tactical Overlay, including piloting your ship accurately, but I don't know why they don't do it.

Homeworld 2's control system comes to mind, that game had awesome UI...




+1
Seleia O'Sinnor
Drop of Honey
#7 - 2011-12-15 12:10:34 UTC
+ make overview settings usable by human beings

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Fix My Lasers
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-12-15 14:14:37 UTC
Generally UI should be less Right clicky and more Left clicky.
By that I mean less menus on r.clicking. More simple and responsible.

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RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#9 - 2011-12-15 14:23:49 UTC
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a subforum dedicated to suggesting new Features and Ideas? Seems like it would be well received.

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Fix My Lasers
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2011-12-15 14:25:39 UTC
RubyPorto wrote:
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a subforum dedicated to suggesting new Features and Ideas? Seems like it would be well received.


All these years showed that none from CCP reads that thread.

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Vicker Lahn'se
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2011-12-15 14:29:13 UTC
Isabelle Evotori wrote:
Freezehunter wrote:
Would be cool if your Tactical Overview would draw green lines or circles based on where your ship is heading if you use approach or orbit or keep at range or manual drive.

I've always wanted some trajectoy information to be displayed on tactical.

There are so many cool things that CCP could do with the Tactical Overlay, including piloting your ship accurately, but I don't know why they don't do it.

Homeworld 2's control system comes to mind, that game had awesome UI...




+1


This would be AMAZING.

Imagine if you could tell your ship to go to a specific point. Imagine if your ship just went to that point and stopped, without piddling around with double clicking this way and that and hitting ctrl+enter over and over.
Averyia
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2011-12-15 14:45:51 UTC
+ When editing overview settings don't have the overview refresh for every action instead have it wait until a "Save" or "Apply" button is pressed (for faster and smoother editing).
+ When editing overview settings allow for Shift-Click functionality to select/deselect a large range of items at once instead of one at a time.
+ Allow option to extend each row in the overview to display more information on a single target without having to increase the horizontal size of the overview.
+ Allow editing of both horizontal and vertical area where targets appear on screen or prevent targets from overlapping with other non-window objects such as the current system information.
+ Allow for multiple stacked items to be fitted to a ship by holding down the shift key when dragging, i.e. hold shift when dragging a stack of guns to ship to have all guns fitted to ship at once.
+ Redesign ship fitting window to allow greater flexibility in its size, e.g. like every other window in the game.
+ Change the default width of columns in the corporate management window, they are currently way to wide for their purposes and a lack of horizontal scrolling means some columns are unknowable on smaller screens.
+ Allow option to have ship fly in the current direction the camera is pointing.
+ Add HP info for drones not currently in space.
+ Add visual cue for whether or not an object is damaged when in hangar as well as quick indication of how damaged the object is.
+ Add ability to sell multiple items at once.
+ When changing ships inside of a station, the ships should fly away and towards the platform.

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Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2011-12-15 14:47:52 UTC
just develop new user/computer interface.. some brain nods comes to mind.. and everything would be better..
Riley Moore
Sentinum Research
#14 - 2011-12-15 15:04:23 UTC

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RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#15 - 2011-12-15 15:09:28 UTC
Fix My Lasers wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a subforum dedicated to suggesting new Features and Ideas? Seems like it would be well received.


All these years showed that none from CCP reads that thread.


That's because it's full of terrible ideas. Let's not drive the Devs away from General Discussion

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