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Auto Pause of Training other account
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Deckel
Island Paradise
#1 - 2016-11-02 22:04:21 UTC
When training is currently active on one character on your account and you want to activate it on another, the hassle is quite inconvenient. When I come to the decision that I need to expand the training on one of the alternative characters, that character will currently be my active character. I am then forced to log out, re-initialize a new session, choose my active training character, wait for it to load, pause it's training, log off, re-initialize a new session again, choose my previous character that I want to train on and then activate the training.

Eve is a game of optimizing time for profit, and this really feels like a waste of time. If I want to activate the training on another character I should just be given a warming message telling me that to do so would result in paused training on the other character, or ask for the purchase of a multi training plex. Then my confirming that a paused queue on the other character is okay, the switch should occur.
PopeUrban
El Expedicion
Flames of Exile
#2 - 2016-11-02 22:06:24 UTC
This is one of a range of small QOL annoyances. Manually pausing/resuming training and manually exiting ships to jump clone come to mind along the same line of thought of "this thing doesn't have meaningful choices or gameplay, it just takes more clicks"
Deckel
Island Paradise
#3 - 2016-11-02 22:16:25 UTC
PopeUrban wrote:
This is one of a range of small QOL annoyances. Manually pausing/resuming training and manually exiting ships to jump clone come to mind along the same line of thought of "this thing doesn't have meaningful choices or gameplay, it just takes more clicks"


A lot of these annoyances are really what can limit player subscription growth. All it takes is clunky interfaces and procedures like this to really turn off a new players tastes for a game.

I suspect this, along with the need to re-initialize a new session every time you need to switch players, can largely turn off new players as they are some key aspects in streamlined play that can be offered on many other game platforms.