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Im looking at Elite Drone AI on the market on Eve Central. I see about 5000 selling. With the Excavators taking 50 per drone, that means if someone were to buy the entire market as shown, they would only be able to produce 100 drones. Now assuming each Rorq pilot has a set of ore and ice drones, you're looking at 10 drones per Rorq, which means 10 pilots will be able to fully fit up their Rorqs with all the AI on the market. Do you see this as an issue? Is the supply going to be able to meet the demand so that a person isnt going to have to drop 6 bil to have a set of ice and ore excavators? I was all for going out and playing with the rorq in belt, but having to go 9 bil for ship + drones and having to sit sieged in belts doesn't sound very smart.

I agree on the voice issues. Like the old way of speeding things up makes everything chipmunk. Stop it. Use the original. There is nothing wrong with it.

As for the skill screen...this no longer has an ease of information provided. You have to look for everything, and as you have to scroll downwards, it is more of a faff. Nice idea, but incompetently implemented. Also, you end up having to take up half the screen to use it. This is not helpful.

Stop redesigning useful things badly to make them not as useful. See map, scanning, overview icons for reference.

I think the problem with the 2 factor email could be that there is a huge influx of emails going out and some ISPs might start blocking them because there is a huge difference in volume all of a sudden.

I work at an ISP and I knew this was coming so I am watching my in coming email from CCP and making sure it is not being dropped. There are also limits set to accept only so much email from a sender as well so for the next few days this is going to be a mess.

There are automatic systems for anti-spam that might start flagging these emails if it sees a big jump in volume. I have been testing out all of my accounts and even very old 2006 accounts that I even forgot about and was able to access them again because of the 2 factor. I didn't know what the character names were on them and didn't realize I actually had these still.

The 2 factor is to allow people to login and not know what their character name is. i get it, it was forced on for a reason. Having 8 accounts linked to 1 email address seems kind of stupid to have to auth all 8 of them though.

Just a heads up on the email since I know this is going to be an issue for sure.

This new Aura voice....

I don't blame the voice actress, she can only do/say what's on her script for a recording session. I put blame where blame is due.

To whomever handled mixing and post processing, the sound of a computer's voice through a paper towel tube is not good audio for a futuristic space game.

To whomever approved the 'Aura in a Paper Towel Tube' audio results, see problem listed above about cardboard tubes and futuristic space games. Matari engineering jokes only fly so far, don't blame this on us!

Side note, I can't tell if she's saying 'Warp Drive Active' or Harddrive Active.' The audio miscues go downhill from there.

CCPlease, fix the mess that is the new Aura audio. It's a very sad bad thing currently.

Will check back to point out any bugs I find, and if the promised Customizable Overview Icons are in place finally.

>Jeven's Keyboardist

Yep, absolutely spot on. Dealing with the verify/2FA nonsense (codes getting pumped out every 15 minutes or so) today on 3 accounts triggered the spam filter on 1and1 so I reckon there's a lot of fallout coming CCPs way.

Get a clue for gods sakes guys this is so basic its embarrassing

Also get this bloody "Omega" nonsense out of my way when I login to a station. I KNOW I'M SUBBED!

i just wanted to say CCP you are amazing, i love the changes.

the only niggle is i wish EC's where on the market instead of having to wait till they are manufactured but i can live with that.


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i have to say as well god i love my orca, the only thing that would make it better is to be able to fit strip miners to it.

I'm not usually one to pile on in these "put it back the way it was" threads, but I think it needs to be said loud and clear that the new Aura voice is a huge downgrade from the old one. I'm probably going to end up disabling speech entirely in the audio settings, and that's a shame.

I get that you need to be able to record new things for Aura to say and that recreating the old voice perfectly for new content is not viable, but I really really think that you should consider retaining the old voice for those things we hear most often. Once a player has finished with the NPE, Aura only says a few things like "Connecting" and "Warp Drive Active" and "Docking Permission Requested." I think that keeping those voice clips as they were has so much value that it would be worth handwaving it away and saying that it's not actually "Aura" saying those things but some simpler navigation computer.

I'm also not a huge fan of the new character sheet, but I suspect that's just a matter of change being scary. I expect that I will get used to it within the week and promptly forget what the old one even looked like.

The new voice I will never get used to, nor will I forget the soothing tones of the old "Warp Drive Active."

I also hate the gold borders on half of my stuff. I have a subscription paid up for months into the future. Why do I need this distracting and ugly UI reminder about what's for alphas and what's for omegas? This should really be a checkbox option, and it should default to OFF for Omega clones. The Eve UI has so much going on already, it makes zero sense to clutter it up with completely irrelevant information. (EDIT: Again, I'm not one to always be asking for the old way to be included as an optional toggle. I totally get why you can't maintain a billion legacy versions of every change you ever make. But this is something that is absolutely begging to be a UI toggle option with a very sensible default of OFF for Omegas and ON for Alphas.)

I'm sure there is a lot of great stuff in the patch, and I look forward to welcoming our new Alpha friends, but the new Aura voice and the gold highlighting are definitely mistakes.

I wholeheartedly agree. I absolutely hate the new Aura voice..

It's too fast, too high pitched, and sounds way too human for an AI. Plus apparently some of the old recordings are still mixed in with the new ones making it all just sound like a mess.

When docking a station you first hear a new recording of "Docking permission requested" followed by the old recording of "Docking request accepted." In other words; two different voices with varying intonations, articulations, and speeds.

I'm sorry CCP but I just don't get this. There's was absolutely nothing wrong with the old voice of Aura so this change was completely unnecessary. This is just changing stuff for the sake of changing somthing.
Also, as others have also mentioned in another thread, changing the voice of Aura touches the soul of EVE and, for me anyway, is a much bigger change than any of the other changes you have implemented in a long long time.

The new Aura voice... NOOOOOOOOO! :( :( :(

:'(

CCP!

What did you DO!!????


That voice was *awesome* - it was one of the KEY parts of the ambience, the feeling, the temperament of the game!

Don't you realize what you had???

The new voice sounds like a kindergarten teacher for gods sake!!!

Please! at least let us have a CHOICE, to be able to choose between the old and new voice - PLEASE!

Please tell me the new aura voice is just a terrible joke. I LOVED the old one and the new one is as bad as the old one was awesome. Kindly bring back the old one before the masses riot and Jita prices for torch and pitchfork hit the stratosphere.

Old separate skill window was better imho, and why aren't the major groups even in alphabetical order?

Old character sheet as a whole was easier to use, easier to find what you're looking for. I don't like that stuff is divided between the character and interactions tabs, and the other singular ones. All of them on the side was faster access. When you want to remove your implants in a hurry for example :P

Simulation mode is great to have, even if not as user friendly as some out-of-game tools, but wasn't expecting that anyway.

I think/hope FtP and this patch in general will be good for eve online... assuming you bring back the old voice :)