Player Features and Ideas Discussion

+1 billion ... for real... +1 for every UI that has ever been reset over the life of eve.... And I'm sure I'm shy a few million....

Should have been part of the original design. Silly that 6yrs later it still is not part of the game.

good idea

+1

+1 for non-binary (XML, ini, conf-file, ...) and more granular settings...

...but take a look at ..\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\IGBR\settings.yaml. - these are your settings dumped in ascii format. it looks ... interesting... like it has "grown" over the years... i fear it needs lots of refactoriing to seperate the real "core settings" from history, cached data and what should be created dynamically. and touching the structure of code always turns out being more work than anticipated...

+1

+1 Supported

+1

I have made threads about this recently, of a program to copy, export and transfer settings files. Which these files still exsist on your computer by the way, its just sometimes when patches are put out a error comes up and it auto creates a new setting folder.

Main settings= C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_(x86)_ccp_eve_tranquility\settings

Older settings= C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_(x86)_ccp_eve_tranquility\settings_backup0

I often manually copy over and backup the user and char.dat files for my main character, that way i can copy and rename to other account/character ID's.

Also, it is possible to change the color of the ship type and alliance tickers in space. For instance, in this screenshot you can see that shiptype is orange, and alliance ticker is blue. There was a website setup to building saving and editing those kinds of things into the overview. But i am not quite sure how that particular coloring feature is done, i have a rough idea, but ive tried editing it in the past and it didn't work.

Anyways, I'm all for something like this being made by someone outside of ccp.


Edit:


You can, once you open the client from a new copied folder from say your desktop, it creates a file in local app data, like the one stated above, and creates new cache and settings folders. From which you can copy the old settings files to the new folder.

Almost everyone wants this and CCP have been promising it for years. Will we finally get it?



From http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=905941&page=2#32 2008.10.26

Suggestion: save character and account configs in XML, not just "export/import". And allow to specify it like
. template
... tab for="ship.cargo" in="@12314123" //I don't care if I get this from right-click menu in game or by manual XML editing
... tab for="ship.cargoore" in="@12314123"
... tab for="ship.fuelbay" in="@12314123"
... tab for="container.jetcan" in="@87912"
... frame for="ship.fitconfig" x="100" y="100" h="600" h="200" shift
... frame for="info.module"

. frame name="@12314123" x= y=
... tab chat channel="mychat" blink="off"
... tab autosaved cargo ship="#283756285151252" //this is added by game client, spawned from one of template lines above
... tab autosaved cargo ship="#982345172512371"
... tab autosaved cargo ship="#715392356375609"

-- so I won't need to drag every huggin' cargo of every huggin' new hulk on every huggin' account every huggin' time you patch it, to place where it belongs. And no, dragging present "frame with all default ship cargo tabs" to desired place doesn't work as it should.

Come on, you have nifty xml for ship configs and overview settings, it's time to go deeper.

+1

I'd definitely love to see this in game, it's been needed for a LONG time. However, I would rather not have ugly XML files to mess with, there are plenty of less painful to work in file formats.

I'll drop a line of support on this *****.

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Fuckin +1