Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello. I am a new player to Eve. This is the first time I've played this game and I've been playing for 3 weeks. I love the game and I think it's fantastic. I wanted to put here in this thread all the care and devotion of myself and other players who want to see the game be the best it can be.

Firstly and firstly thanks to you devs and GMs that work on this and I hope that we can help each other create actual improvements that we all see are necessary.

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Okay, I personally would please like to have the Mining Drone: Mine Repeatedly command, that is found by right clicking, to be defaulted to the Drones: Engage Target command shortcut....

pleeeeeeeeeaaaase.....please just connect that functionality together. It doesn't make sense to be able to attack the target with all drones, salvage the target with all drones but NOT mine the target with all drones through that shortcut....it just makes no sense.

There are many other quick fixes I have seen to this game as a new player that I would love to see. I hope to put them up here for review.

Thank you all. And I hope this can be a thread for building up the game and not tearing it down.

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Here is another huge one:

Please...please create a setting in the game settings where players can determine how much time they want before their chat channel window, inventory window, whatever window is automatically deselected.

I can't tell you how many times it happens where I'm talking in chat and mining and I am typing all my shortcut commands to fly, target, mine, whatever into the chat channel.

Please, if I could have a setting that deselects the windows automatically after 15 seconds even, then I would be able to maneuver probably 90% of the time without a hiccup.

Appreciate it thanks.

Guys take a better attitude. These are small changes that benefit the game. It's not needed to take a stand against another player on account of what they see would benefit the game.

Don't make it immature. It's just one feature and yes, such a setting would benefit the game.

Alright the setting would be in General Game settings where the people who care could set that setting and the people who don't can continue to click in empty space.

The availability of the setting is all that is needed. It would not change your game play at all. These are small changes that do in fact help the game and I know that there are many people who would use this setting. So you are not representative here and that is what I'm pointing out.

Thus, "ripping to shreds" other people's points is purely selfish since there is a large majority who would want to see these changes although they do not take the time to post here. Thus, in effect your strategy is begging for a fight to see who will argue the point for it, more than those who would argue against it. But this thread is not the council for deciding on making the change or not. It is only a post of what changes we would like to see. There is no real need for a discussion about them. And that tactic is most certainly not how to get things done or how to improve upon a project in general. All of you Eve guys are clearly staunch in your opinion that being cruel or rough is the way to live but it's not. Anyone can be a warrior and be at peace as well. This is not the place to be at war. So relax guys.

Which is why you guys need to refrain from negativity and let the idea stand for itself. You don't need to do anything if it is not something that is important. Otherwise you may say why it would functionally hinder the game but none of that has been said yet.

Personal opinions are good but they don't get center stand here in this thread.

Thank you. What small problems have you seen that could have some fixing in Eve?

F&I is quite a caustic place because there are any number of not-exhaustively-thought-out ideas. If you do not have mod tools, you're really not in charge of the thread, and it is everyones job to try to figure out probable exploits. Most of all it is your job as the person starting the thread to look into this. New players are very valuable, but frequently do not understand the fine balance(s) the game has.

Now to the suggestions, no from me for the chat window timer, one click is not onerous.

No from me regarding the drones auto mining. Drones do not repeatedly mine in order to frustrate casual afk miners, or so I interpret. Regular strip miners aren't fire and forget, you have to shift asteroids, distances, crystals, etc.

A drone that just harvests endlessly would require very very little actual game client interaction, and the ship most likely to use such(orca) can be very effectively brick tanked for higher sec mining.

Can't support the ideas in this thread, too easy to exploit and not really needed.

ed* BTW, I come up with a huge amount of bad ideas, write them down, poke holes in them, and then put them in the one line bad idea thread. on occasion i do start a thread but I expect and hope people will poke holes in the idea. I rely on certain people to do just that, and those are the most caustic, nasty yet thoughtful people here. No names need be mentioned they know who they are.