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In many companies replying in that way to a legitimate complaint from paying customers would earn the employee an instant dismissal notice.

Well ...... what's the point of this kind of thread again ?

I'll maybe write more pointless feedback later, but in a nutshell it won't be particularly different than past 30 pages:

The good:

- off grid booster removal and replacement
- a bit half assed but still some attempt at t3d rebalance
- a big and meaty bone thrown to miners
- new citadel stuff
- new fitting window
- some new stuff to play with

The medicore / pointless change:

- new Aura; what was wrong with the old one ? (personally IDC about this change much if at all, but the old voice is certainly better than the new one; did you have some legal issues related to the old stuff ?)

The bad:

- new irritating OVERSIZED popups telling me (with no way to turn this off) how much skills i have to learn and other pointless stuff for every single junk I mouse over, while at the same time making the only useful information (price) nearly invisible and removing another one completely (whole stack value)
- new skill part of character window, which is overengineered desperate-at-being-pretty laggy mess: cannot add multiple skills at once, doesn't show pri/sec attributes per skill, doesn't show amount of learnt sp per skill/group, uses screen estate in pretty terrible way (you do know that monitors generally have width > height ?), wastes 1/3 or vertical space for background and face (why ? what for ?). New character screen (or rather its skill part) to old one is like dotlan maps to new map (and old map as well to lesser extent). Hope you get the analogy.

Anyway - in the context of expansion itself it's quite good - with major bad points being new character window (seriously listen to damn feedback for a change - it doesn't need that many changes, but it DOES need them), irritating popups and Aura - but these being vastly outweighted by good parts (imho).

Sadly, the bad parts join in execution and design traits:

- new nearly knobless map with fundamental issues unfixed for ~year by now, disqualifying it as a map; the main good part of it being a neocom icon that has a color
- new market graphs (at their current iteration, and I'm not holding my breath for much real changes coming)
- new still lacking essential functionality camera
- new tactical window with curved proections and more bling forced down out throats with no knobs or shortcuts to change or alter it on the fly to normal vertical projections and a sphere (which are notably more useful in some scenarios)
- new probe dialog window still having bugged filter selections
- new nearly knobless probe map with dscan/probes having same damn color and no knobs to adjust it (or general bubble intensity) or nearly anything for that matter (including major damn gripe of accidental bubble grabbing - forced down our throats with no knob to disable it even if there are 3 (three) other ways do resize them and even if one of sisi iterations had this cancer turned off).
- new monochromatic (that's just stupid) barely differently looking neocom icons

And a few lesser but no less irritating regressions, such as ninja removal of tab window minimizing to titlebar, removal of rgb sliders, forced window snap in, forced transparency when pinned down ....

I always thought CCP is the kind of a company that listens to it's players or at least this was the impression. I always thought this is what differentiates them from giants like Blizzard and this thought made me fall in love with EVE and CCP in the first place. If this new voice problem isn't going to be fixed I will be so disappointed in CCP. Basically, because I feel that the whole system of beliefs I had about CCP was built on a total lie.

This is not us resisting to change is us kindly telling you that you made a small mistake and we would like you to fix it. I'm using the word "kindly" because the next question would be "How many of your hard earned and loyal paying customers you need to loose in order to treat this problem seriously?"

Just don't treat us like small minded peasants and tell your Devs that a reply like that, not only is not worthy of your status, but is borderline insulting.

The new Aura sounds like an uptight school teacher, or someone who enjoys inhaling helium.

Please bring the old Aura back.

Upon further reflection, the new Aura sounds like a 33 rpm LP being played at 45 rpm.

You said it brother. I second that motion!

Suggestion about fitting management.

At the moment, when I open the saved fits, I find it too much condensed, without enough contrast to see clearly each part. It looks like more a big amount of text with icons than anything else...
Another "issue" is the complexity to export fit (we already had):

1. find your ship category
2. select your faction
3. select your ship
4. select your fit
5. save as ..
6. select what you need.

Well, fine. It's a bit too much of clicks required, don't you think ?

Solutions (for both problems) :

1. add some contrast on fit names (like darkening a little bit the line ?)
2. allows us to configure the display a little bit :


• Display / Hide ship icons (or put everything inline, at the same size you put factions)
• Collapse / Expand everything
• Hide tree (have everything at the same level, without tree)


3. Add "export to clipboard" in the right click contextual menu on the fits, just behind "multifit" for example (this one especially would save a lot lot lot of time...)

Thanks.

For the 99% of PAYING player base.....

I posted this somewhere else... I'll leave it here - soon CCP will be able to synthesize Aura's voice exactly as the old one and have her say whatever they need her to:

Hi,

Thanks for the great job you are doing at CCP. I love many of the features you added in this last expansion, especially the fitting tool which is awesome =)

Yet, some UI design are in my opinion overly cumbersome :

- Skill queue does not show training time multiplier anymore. It is important info i would like to have back on the main window please.

- Omega status visual distinctions are everywhere (highlight on items, logo in ship tree, on info panels, etc.) Please add some way to disable these "adverts" when omega state is activated.

- Aura new voice is awful, or at least not my taste at all (and its volume is wrongly balanced by default). Can we please have the option to use the old one again ?


- Finally, it is very minor, but I think the skill queue would be read better if names were organized vertically :
1 4
2 5
3 6
instead of :
1 2
3 4
5 6


I hope someone from CCP will read this and give it a thought. They are not big changes and I genuinely believe it would improve the game playability comfort a lot.

Thanks, bb
Wonder

ccp need to do like tomtom did with sat nav. hire celebrities to do aura voiceovers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AStf6oHCS9o