EVE General Discussion

I don't know what the general concensus is on the UI, but my personal opinion is that the UI is

1. A Click fest.
2. Hard to easily use on a high resolution screen.
3. Highly unintuative in places.
4. Buggy as hell.
5. A window fest.
6. Slow to navigate.
7. Almost completely uncustomisable.

There are millions of individual examples, too many to name. So anyway, I was wondering who would be prepared to sacrifice an ENTIRE expansion (assuming that would be necessary), to making the UI the exact opposite of the above list. I'm talking a total revamp.

The goal would be:

1. To reduce clickage as much as possible.
2. Make it much easier to navigate through.
3. Make it considerably quicker to navigate through.
4. Make it bug free.
5. Design it in such a way that future expansions can easily be added to the existing UI rather then cobbled on.
6. Allow a sensible degree of customisation.

There are millions of ways this could be done, and CCP you'd do very well to work closely with your player-base on this one. Hire an Expert in UIs - I hear they do exist.

I for one would like to see custom buttons for regular actions. Such as 'Dock Boundless Creation Hek Planet IV,' 'target nearest ship/asteroid', etc.

Oh, and still waiting on that slider for Scanner range. This would add a whole new level of usefulness to the scanner. As I said though, there's millions of ways the UI could be improved. That says to me that it needs to be done from scratch.

Cue polarised views.

Expansion dedicated to [single feature] should never happen ever again, lest we get another Incarna.

Did not read OP.

Dear Miss Whippy.

I am glad that you have discovered the joys of the UI - it is working as intended, that is to say a kind of mental flagellation designed to slowly frustrate you in ways that you never thought possible. Naturally it gets tweaked now and then, just because it can be but ultimately it is a way of culling the weak from the strong. Only those with a strong enough mindset (and resistant to carpal tunnel syndrome) will survive the continual whittling of their will to be in EVE through the UI. This makes for a rougher tougher world, and we kinda like it that way, it's a great selling point.

If things are not yet clear now Miss Whippy, please go out there and invent and manufacture 2000 assault frigates in preparation for the upcoming changes and go out to the great wildlands to scan all planets and survey all moons to determine which would be the optimal location for operations of universal domination.

Hurry back now.


Cyniac.

I certainly wouldn't be unhappy to see an entire expansion dedicated to UI improvements.

No single expansion in recent memory has been so mind-blowing that I couldn't wait an extra iteration for it.

Idiots trying to be edgy

Yes, more expansions about minutia please .

Good intention, stupid idea. Improving UI should never be a single feature in any expansion.

I'd rather just see the UI opened up to user-side modding, but that requires a lot of policing on CCP's part to ensure that it isn't used to automate the game so I doubt it'll happen. Dare to dream.

new UI on SISI is nice tho...

I don't think an expansion should be dedicated to a single feature. You don't need 200+ people working on improving the UI when CCP already has competent personnel who are suited for this task. (Team Pink Zombie Kittens and Team Papercuts are some of the folks who have demonstrated their competence in this area.)

As far as UI features that I would like to see improved go, however, I think the overview could definitely use some work. It would be great if it was designed in a way that gave EVE less of a "Spreadsheets in Space" vibe. I'm not entirely sure how such a thing could be done, however.