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I would like to point out the ship listing example in the blog is hilariously flawed.

Say you open the SMA and it's lagging up the ship uploading? Quickly press the List view button and then Icon view, the ship list will load INSTANTLY, while letting it load naturally in the defautl icon will take longer.

Adding to my post, just make the whole client more responsive. As soon as I interact in any way, I should have instant confirmation that the command was received. Currently, when I jump, I just rapid fire click the jump button until the jump happens because I don't know if it worked or not until it finally occurs a second after I sent the command.

When I'm manually flying my ship, I change direction by rapidly clicking where I want to go until the ship turns and starts in that direction, because I don't know if it worked until the ship starts to turn, a second after I did it.

Same thing with the module icons.

Overall, give instant visual feedback when you do something.

Been a while since I needed this functionality but last time I used Xfire to broadcast live video of my game. I am pretty sure there are other programs with the same functionality.

Two things about scrolling through big lists or text panes:

1) the scroll bar has always wound me up because, while it's proportional to the size of the visible part of the overall list or document, clicking in the gutter above or below the scrollbar doesn't advance it one 'page'-worth, it takes you all the way to the proportional location represented by the click. This isn't how any other windowing system in widespread use today works and even after years of playing the game it still kills me every time I forget and click and lose where I was completely.

2) large lists, eg, the fully-expanded Skills pane in the character sheet scrolls jerkily and pathily and routinely cuts the framerate from a steady 60-400fps to, like, 0.3fps (1/3 fps) on my 3.6GHz Core2Quad, 8GB, Radeon HD5870 box running only Eve fullscreen at top priority with the latest fresh built fully-patched Windows 7 64-bit with the latest gfx drivers and a good SSD. No matter how much hardware I've thrown at Eve, scrolling big lists always reduces the client to a shuddering mess. No idea why, but it'd be nice to think it needn't be this way.

So, I'm researching BPO's, doing ME research and the like.

All my BPO's are in a corp hangar at an NPC station. My POS and Lab's are in the same system. I want to do ME or PE research on my BPO's. To start my journey of clicks, I right click on the BPO I want to improve, and select the relevant process I want to subject it to.

This opens up a window where I am required to pick an installation. I click the button to do so.

This opens up another window. Now because the BPO's aren't stored inside the Lab (A foolish idea) and I'm not using an inefficient NPC Station, no installations are displayed. I click range, then click on of the options at or above Current Solar System.

Now, I can click on one of my labs, which lets me know how many slots that lab has open. I go through my labs until I find one with an open slot. I double click that slot.

Back to the earlier window now. I either use an OUT OF GAME CALCULATOR from a website or simply guess at the ME/PE # that will be closest to the desired time limit without going over. I click Ok.

Now I see another window that gives me a quote. If I'm happy with the production time, I hit Accept Quote, if I'm not, I close this window and repeat the previous step.

Yes! My BPO is now being worked on. I then go and repeat EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of the above steps for any additional BPO's I would like to improve. Yay!

(The process is even more dreary via the "Installation" tab, as that requires me to scroll through down a long list of BP's to locate the one I want to work on. Every time. I find it faster to use my asset or corp hangar window because then I don't lose my place in the list and can use search filters.)

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Why does it take this many clicks to accomplish what should be a very simple process?
Why do I have to manually adjust the range of the filter to "Current Solar System" -every- time?
Why does it allow me to attempt to select "My Blueprints", being those that aren't in a corp hangar, and then tell me that the location of the BP/Installation are incompatible?
-Why am I not able to improve BPO's at a POS without them being in a Corp Hanger?

Why can't each installation act like a context sensitive skill queue, permitting me to drag and drop BP's into them, automagically sorting that BP into an open slot, allow me to select ME or PE, and give me some real time visual feedback on an estimated completion time alongside jobs in progress as I enter or modify the value in the ME/PE+ field?
-Use a slider (room permitting) to change between Invention, copying, ME/PE.
-Context Sensitive means that if I drag the BPO into an assembly line, manufacturing options will be shown on that slider. If I drag the BPO into an advanced lab, a copying option will be available in addition to ME/PE development. If I select Invention, I can drop Base Item's/Decryptors into slots like fitting a module. Ditto for Reverse Engineering.

This can all be done from a single window with a tenth of the current clicks. Just drag & Drop from your hangar or assets into an installation, setup the context sensitive options, verify the output is what you desired, and click begin.

Is there any reason that this line of thinking would not provide your users with a better experience?

Even if the various S&I windows would remember their previous values (separate memories between ME research, PE research, invention, copying, manufacturing, reverse engineering) - it would turn the average "BPO at station, invention at a lab" clickfest from 13 clicks down to about 6-7 clicks.

I would also like the option to blow myself up though (yes, I know there's a self-destruct in the right-click menu).

While we're at it, slim down the goddamn right-click menu madness.

As far as i know CCP's servers are hosted in London. :)

I've always thought that clicking the "offices" tab in any station is the most painful thing i can do while docked (well, ok, the second thing). I admit i'm dumb with clicking, but the tabs are so freaking small too.

So, Offices list in Stations. Damn. Too slow

Also, the Star Map takes forever to load the list of celestials in a system you just hovered on. I mostly hover over the stars to get a name of the system, especially when i'm looking for the most kills or jumps or cynos in the last hour, not to get a huge incomprehensible list of celestials. So, please 1) either speed it up or 2) give me an option tu disable that bothersome list. I mean, i can get it anyway right clicking the star > show info.

Many thanks

Something else that's little yet increddibly frustrating at times!

Can we have our module rings cycle from the begining every time and not randomly somewhere about half way around ?

It makes it tough to work out how long extended duration modules like siege, bubble or mining modules have been on for.