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Easy UI Improvements for faster and more relaxxed Fitting

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Dimitrios Bekas
Pandemic Horde Inc.
#1 - 2014-12-04 20:54:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Dimitrios Bekas
Hello CCP.

i started with lots of PVP and a lot of time is wasted, while trying to fit the ships and search for the specific items, while you have your fittings screen open. Same goes out when buying every single module, instead of having the "Buy whole fitting" by one-click out of the Fittings-Window.

Some Ideas to make it faster, simpler and more relaxxed in my opinion...

1. Remove Low/Med/High Rack only Buttons
Remove Rack only BUTTONS
Instead of removing 5 Items it would be only 1-Click, very relaxxing when you want to change from 8 Rails to 8 Blasters.


2. Drag one specific Item from a saved Fit (Same or another one) -> into the Fittingscreen
Fitting one specific Item out of any presaved Fitting

Please don´t tell me now "Why dont you just make a different Fitting and save it ?" Thats not the solution to safe time and clicks and headache. Because now comes another "wtf?" behaviour with saved fittings.Evil

Lets stay with the Caracal from the YT Video.
I use a saved Fitting on an Empty Caracal, it loads Heavy Assault Launchers and 1500xMissiles of each Type. Heavy ASSAULT MISSILES of course...all in my Ships-Bay.

Now i choose another Caracal Fit, using LightRapidLaunchers, of course it loads 1500xLightMissiles of each Type into my Ship-CargoBay.

But what does NOT happen is the REMOVAL of the Preloaded HEAVY ASSAULT MISSILES in my Ship-CargoBay. So i need to manually remove them. The same goes out for other items. So please don´t tell me to have 8 different Fittings saved only to drag 2 Items out of any other presaved Fitting.

Sure, now some can say "i switch fits and need to have the option that my cargo bay stays untouched". Well, it would be just one button, one option when you save the fitting or whatever...as example "Clear Ship CargoBay with Fitting".

I tried other solutions, like having 10 Station Containers, one for Ammo, Hardeners, Weapons and so on. Well, like the "wtf? i cant rightclick sell item" that are stored in a Station Container, the same goes out for Presaved Fittings. Only the items in the MainHangar-Bay are checked for that.

I would love to have my AMMO Container, my MODULES Container and my WEAPONS Container from where all items are able to be fitted automatically when i use a presaved fitting. Having all bunch of stuff in the MainCargoBay, and searching for one specific Item...is WAYYYY not relaxxing. I tried "List all Items" and "Grouping" and "Alphabetical Order", it is not ok it is chaotic, and the Simple, drag and drop out of a presaved Fitting thing shown in the YT Video, would be an awesome improvement in my eyes.

If you don´t switch your ships 10 Times per Day, and need to buy and re-equip a dozen Ships EVERY DAY, then you don´t know what i am talking about. It is really really Timeconsuming and yes, i get a real god damn headache :( :( :( Mostly because of the next "not possible" Option...

3. "BUY ALL ITEMS - out of a presaved Fitting" ( I DO A LOT OF TRADING WITH ANOTHER TOON DON´t TELL ME I AM TOO LAZY TO RIGHTCLICK EVERY ITEM )
***...Buy allI tems from presaved Fitting***
that would be perfect - i want to have 3 Caracals with that fitting ? Or i need 200 Atrons with that Fittings and Modules ?
I could click the BUY ALL ITEMS in my presaved fitting and raise every Number, like it is possible in the new "Sell/Buy Window"...and BOOM...all is in my MainHangar-Bay.

Now its -> rightclick Item 1 ->View Marketdetails ->doubleclick lowest Station Seller ->choose amount and so on and on for every item... *PURE HEADPAIN* - Even when you had this option, it could be improved, if the "BUY ALL ITEMS" Option recognizes the whole Fitting as "one Package". Why ? Well, if you have 4 different Ammotypes in the Presaved fitting and Nanite Paste, you still needed to make the calculation for 200 Caracals, to buy the exact amount of ammo.

Seen as a Package, the ALL BUY Function could go through every Item in the Presaved Fitting, give it to the "Buy on Market" Option with the Amount listed in the Presaved Fitting and put a 1 beside the AMOUNT. And AMOUNT meaning HOW MANY OF THIS PACKAGE you want ? 1500 Rockets x4 / 2 EM Hardener x4 / 80 Nanite Repair Paste x4

When you go even further, how f***** Awesome it would be, if it also would show you, how many of those items are already in your MainHangar-Bay. Maybe from loot of other PVP Pilots or because you bought that 10 Destroyers and didn equip that MWD on 5 of them, that was listed in the fitting.

But this is of course a "perfect" Thing to have in my eyes. Only the Option of Buying the Things with one click out of a presaved Fitting, just telling the Game - "Give Item 1 2 3 4 from Presaved Fitting" over to "Buy from Market" and opening the Market Window...would be damn sexy relaxxing for those "PVP need to change and refit my ship 20times per day" Pilots.
Dimitrios Bekas
Pandemic Horde Inc.
#2 - 2014-12-04 21:04:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Dimitrios Bekas
4. Stacking / Split Ammo
I have 100.000 Small Hybrid Ammo and want to split it into 20x 5000 - impossible
Now imagine if you have 20 different ships in your Hangar...from Crystals, Missiles, Faction Antimatter... i would go crazy without a station container to put all into it.

Sure, when i use a presaved fitting, it takes the exact amount of the presaved Fitting. But as mentioned before, changing Weapons and using other presaved fittings, leaves the ammo for the previous fitting in your ShipCargo and adds only the Ammo for the actual fitting.

Using Shift and dragging one ammotype from your mainhangar into your ship-bay is possible at least, so i dont need to search for my splitted ammo at the end of the Items List. But Selecting 4 different Ammotypes and spit them right into your ShipBay out of your Mainhangar-bay....nope, thats not working. Need to make it 4 Times.

Anyway, Stacking and Splitting Options, as example SHIFT then Drag the Item and you can type in the Amount first like it is now and in the next input field, you can type in the number of Stacks.

Then it would be possible to split 100.000 of X into 300 Units / 23stacks - it would only take the 23x300 from the 100k stack and leave the rest. WITH ONE CLICK ONLY ! ahh that would be relaxxing...Come on, that cant be such a "Big" Programming or Engine Issue to be implemented ccp ? Or am i so wrong ?
think of all the Miner-Bros out there ? having Millions and Billions of Units and m³ of Ore to be stacked.

And you cannot just STACK one Item...only Stack ALL. But what when i only want my Scordite to be stacked and leave all the other hundred Stacks of Veldspar untouched ? Need to drag them into an empty Station container first, because split does not work in Station containers. :(

5. Right-Click ITEM NAME shown in BIG LETTERS at the TOP - no Copy Option in the English Version ?
Well, i already wrote to CCP Support.

Just to show it in Pictures

English Version
RightClick NO COPY Option when playing Eve in English

German Version
Option to Copy the Name of the Item

Why this is important ?
Well, i use this option sure 50times a day.
Choosing an item and then having the option to RIGHTCLICK on the Name in the MarketWindow, or even everywhere, even in the Presaved Fittings, and then having the exact Name copied to the clipboard... is perfect.

As example i want to check prizes on eve-central and need only the TEXT not the ITEM LINK...

And like it seems, it is implemented in other languages to copy the english names somehow, but leaving english UI-Using Pilots without that easy Copy Option ? I think it is quite easy to make this option available to everyone.



Peewwww...ok thats it, i am finished, i hope my english is not so bad, and that everybody understands what i wrote, and sure, the benefits of those improvements. Maybe or for sure, a lot of those things have already been written by others, i dont know.

Or maybe i just dont know a proper and easier way to fit ships :) and it is my own fault, getting HEADACHEs :)