Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Or, maybe you could improve your situational awareness, given an understanding of game mechanics. ie Incursion channel activating in incursion systems

There's a simple solution to this: Next time you're in an Incursion channel, unpin the window where Local is contained (i.e. the one that the Incursion channel pops into), drag the Incursion channel to somewhere else, and re-pin your local window. From now on, Incursion channels will spawn somewhere other than local.

Cheers.

I know situation awareness and game mechanics very well. The most important one in nullsec is: always have at least one eye on the local or you will have a bad day. This is exactly the reason why I don't like some kind of a spam program to open a chat window without request and put the focus on it. I just have to overlook that this little sneaky invitation window has changed something and exactly then happens what happend to me: another one entered the system, took his time to probe down my site, fly in cloaked, sneak within 5000m range, decloak and kill me. Before I realized my error I had a lossmail.

Btw.: I don't care about the isk I lost or being killed at all. I don't care if other players kills me but I hate to lose against a computer or a program.

This would be nice for those of us who could not give a damn about incursions and their runners.

That is an understatement. That said, OP should have realized that the 'local' he was looking at was not 'Local'. He got distracted or too focused on data/relic loot. It happens. Not CCP's fault though. If there were no security blanket of local chat this would never even have been an issue.


Death to local (and incursion channels)

The incursion channel is awful and should be addressed, but that doesn't excuse the OP's mistakes.

Just fly around with the map open instead looking at the stars, then you will see it.

When you jump into an incursion system you don't see the color change of the background and as additional feature the incursion details (typically shown beneath the systems name) stay hidden. The only warning you get is the switch in the tab header of the chat window. Just miss this little point and you are trapped.

I don't care about messages, chat, whatever. It's null, you normally don't talk. And yes, even without incusrions I often have red text in the chat, e.g. from sleeper caches, WH jumps, other warnings. Just go to null, enter some anoms, ded complexes, WHs and you will find that most of the text you see actually is painted in red. This is null, not Jita.

All I care is: is there someone or not. a nice icon I am interested in, not more, not less.

So again, I hate it if the client decides that it is so interesting to read who is doing this that it does not only opens a window without asking and leaving you no possibility to stop it from appearing but also moves it in the foreground. It's just like surfing the web without an add block and each time you visit the wrong page a big banner appears "HEY, did you see? The fantastic Sanshas have appeared and offer their service. So come to our shop, visit us, we have special deals with NPCs, you won't be disappointed.".

You'd think so but the next time you load eve it re docks itself to the stack of channels and changes their sizes AGAIN...

Only thing i've found to work is to drag EVERY SINGLE CHANNEL out of the default chat box into a new one, and then when you get private convo invites and such it spawns a tiny tiny new chat window which is annoying in and off itself. Especially since with how i have my UI set up it often spawns UNDERNEATH my main chat window...