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Open discussion to bring out of EVE content inside EVE
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Mikhem
Taxisk Unlimited
#1 - 2017-02-05 16:44:22 UTC
There is lot of EVE related content outside EVE client. You can usually access it with browser. If people make wish this content could come part of EVE client.

This is open discussion thread what kind of EVE related out of EVE client content you would like to see in EVE.

Mikhem

Link library to EVE music songs.
Mikhem
Taxisk Unlimited
#2 - 2017-02-05 16:45:21 UTC
I make first idea here. There are EVE short stories in EVE community page. It would be cool if you could read these stories in EVE client. When you have long warp path with slow ship going on you could read these stories. Or if you mine Veldspar(TM) you could read these stories.

Comments are welcome for this idea and feel free to present your idea what out of EVE client content you want to bring in EVE client.

Mikhem

Link library to EVE music songs.
Wolfgang Jannesen
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2017-02-05 16:46:48 UTC
More than anything I want the browser back from a couple years ago, and the jukebox back from 2008. Everything I needed to alt-tab out of EvE for was either a fit I was looking up, evesurvival, evewho or something else that worked well enough on the dodgy browser.
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#4 - 2017-02-05 17:02:55 UTC
I won't deny that I too miss the Jukebox..,

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Rawketsled
Generic Corp Name
#5 - 2017-02-05 22:08:21 UTC
Jukebox!

How I miss thee.
mkint
#6 - 2017-02-06 04:24:39 UTC
I was glad when the jukebox left. It was only put in the game to begin with because everything at that time was getting an mp3 player built into it. More than anything it was a source of people asking stupid questions.

The IGB isn't coming back though. I'd like it to, but it's not. It was the only real tool players had to integrate their own tools into the client. Even the best API won't be as good as what could be done with a good IGB. What I'd like to see happen as an admittedly weak replacement is a built in overlay tied to a barebones 3rd party browser, so it could be minimized to the neocom like any other window in game. Seems like CCP went through an amputation fetish for a bit there, mercilessly cutting important features.

Maxim 6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
Do Little
Bluenose Trading
#7 - 2017-02-06 09:45:18 UTC
CCP has to pick their battles - they can't do everything. If there is a perfectly good tool already available on the market - use it. Don't develop your own. It isn't simply the initial development cost, you also need to factor in ongoing maintenance - non trivial for a browser in todays security environment.

A problem with the Eve client is that its conceptual roots are back in the 1990s. If they ever get around to rewriting it, we should be able to undock the various panels and tools and move them wherever we want on our desktop. Adobe and Autodesk have had this capability for decades. This will require an API for communication between the client and semi-independent tools and it should be possible to write plug-ins for 3rd party tools like a browser that exposes this API. This could restore a lot of the functionality lost when the IGB was removed but would probably require a complete rewrite of the client.