Ships & Modules

I hope you can contact him. But my gut says that trying to code the Carrier changes was too hard and he just said screw the whole thing.

If that is the case though, he really should have released the source to the community. It is an essential tool for thousands of players and he left us high and dry without a word of explanation.

I firmly believe that he's said screw the whole thing because CCP said they were going to release simulated ships within the in game fitting system. The simulated ships completely and totally removes the need for programs such as EFT, as it does exactly the same thing, only more accurately as it's in game. Unfortunately, I think 3rd party fitting tools are going to go away with the November expansion.

CCP tryed to make a usable ingame map and yet people (including me) still use dotlan cause it is simple, effective and very very much more clear, well-arranged map tool.

I am sure the same will happen with ingame fitting tool. CCP so hard in sci-fi GUI medium, that their in-game tools are barely usable cause of shiny but overcomplicated user interface.

I'm torn. On the one hand, they're trying to make it like you'd see things in the movies. On the other hand, yes, needless clutter is bad for design. If user interfaces for system design are like they are in movies, you'd never really get anything done. Real system design, even in the future, has to be fast response, clear, without useless frills, and to the point.

Make the finished readout screen look much cooler and have some sort of holographic semi-transparency boxes that you can click through and see the ships different abilities, during the design face you need a realistically usable UI.

Save us from Ghost Fitting Gripen, you are our only hope!

THIS! :)


Gripen, where are you!? The rebels NEED those maps to the deathst... I mean the EFT, otherwise we will have no chance to repel a ghost fitting window of that magnitude.

Just wanna add my 2 ISK worth.

First of all, I am very thankful for having EFT available. It has saved me time and ISK in-game for doing ship fits. Not only that, it has also gave me insight into skills needed to make those ship fits work.

Despite CCP's good intentions, those of us who have been around for a while know damn well that what CCP says and does is two different things. Besides that, even if they do what they say they'll do, the released product will be buggy and more importantly, will not be worked on or finished after being implemented in game.

So we definitely need an active EFT app. I for one don't want to log into the game just to check out various ship fits.


DMC

CCPs scope for a fitting tool is much more narrow than that of EFT/Pyfa. It's essentially drop some modules on a ship, display some basic stats. It will never do what those tools do, nor will it ever cover a fraction of the information they provide.

But it's not meant to.

Ghost fitting isn't something that is intended to completely obsolete EFT/Pyfa, it's just the next rev of the in game fitting window. And it'll be a very useful tool, one that I'll use often. (I've already used it many times on SiSi, have you?)



As far as an app goes, there are many to choose from.



It's not terribly difficult, so let me turn that frown upside down. :)

Many things are being actively worked on (I just submitted a PR that will allow people to selectively enable booster side effects, albeit in a slightly hacky way). Go look at the PRs for Pyfa, and if there's something you are really missing from EFT that you want there, create an issue on it.

Just PLEASE don't create another "give windows plx". Pyfa is never EFT, never pretended to be, and never will be. We have to draw the line somewhere. :)

But feature/information/display/functionality/etc requests, those are fair game.


Also, for those in the know, big things are planned for Pyfa. So keep your eyes open for news on that front.

Screw cupcakes, I got some single malt scotch with his name on it!