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How should we improve the inventory UI?

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#41 - 2012-01-27 22:49:58 UTC
Evenus Battuta wrote:
1. Please remove the 'repackage' operation before stacking items. Make it automatic and invisible to players. The only reason you repackage an item is to stack it, making player do the additional step 'repackage' is pointless.

This is a nice idea, but the current implementation of Stack - automatically does a Sort. If I am collecting loot or managing random assembled fittings that someone hands me, I want to keep those fittings separate from my own.

Today if I accept a bunch of items, they are dumped unsorted at the "end" of my hanger, I can easily select and repackage them, and drag the items to a can, and stack there to keep them separate from my stuff.

For this feature idea to work for me, I would need a Stack Selected Items option.
(Repackage working inside of cans would also be nice.)
Prometheus Exenthal
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#42 - 2012-01-28 08:14:40 UTC
Being able to simultaneously move equal quantities of multiple items between windows.
You'd select your stacks of the different items, hold shift to specify quantity like you normally would, then drag and release to the destination. When asked for the quantity, that value is applied to all the selected items (or the maximum it can allow)

Not being able to do this drives me nuts.

Example:
I've 6 types of missiles & I want equal amounts of all of them.
I select the missiles from my source, hold shift and drag them to their destination.
The value I then enter is applied to all the missiles, removing a significant number of clicks I have to do.

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Keras Authion
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#43 - 2012-01-28 10:23:28 UTC
Issue: Trying to stack items with limited space cannot be done easily. Example: You have two stacks of identical ammo both 50m3 in a small container (120m3). Right-click stack claims that there is not enough room for the items. However you can drag and drop the items on top of each other to stack them.

Possible solution: Subtract the smaller pile of items from the total volume before trying to stack.


Issue: Repackaging containers with items in them. This can cause cluttering in your hangar and general pain in the posterior due to having to reorganize your stuff back if you accidentally repackaged your general storage.

Possible solution: Ask before repackacing containers with items inside.


Issue: No chance to react to errors. Detailed in an earlier post in this thread. Annoying when you have to get that partial stack back from your target container.

Possible solution: If you encounter an error, add a popup asking if you want to abort/ / skip / continue the operation, just like in the windows explorer.

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Two step
Aperture Harmonics
#44 - 2012-01-28 10:38:01 UTC
Issue:

Saved fittings don't:
A) remember to fit rigs
B) Fit ammo to guns/cargo, even if you get it in the saved fitting.
C) Remember and re-create weapon groups.

If I have a saved fittting, and I have *all* the stuff I need to fit up a fresh hull, it is stupid that there are 2 steps that I must do in station (A and B) and one more than can be done in station or in space.

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Trebor Daehdoow
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#45 - 2012-01-28 13:12:55 UTC
Meta issue: I think it would be really helpful for this discussion if you did a quick work-in-progress devblog -- or even just posted some screenshots -- that showed the overall structure of what you are implementing. Something similar to the presentation the CSM was given in December.

This would give everyone the right framework in which to (ahem) frame their suggestions, identify the edge cases, needs of power users, etc.

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The Snowman
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#46 - 2012-01-28 17:19:41 UTC
I'd like to be able to 'reserve' some space in my ships cargo hold (thats still inventroy right?)

Example, I know Im going to pick something up thats 200m3 in size, and I want to fill the rest up with ammo.

So I set the 'reserve space' option to 200 m3, I drop a stack of ammo in and it says "doing this operation will encroach on your reservation, do you want to a, ignore reservation(remove), b, retain reservation and use the rest. c, occupy reservation.
HELLBOUNDMAN
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2012-01-28 17:22:03 UTC  |  Edited by: HELLBOUNDMAN
Issue....Selling multiple items sucks...

Suggestion

Shift click all the items you wish to sell..

Opens another window similar to the contract creation window.

At the top it shows your overall income from the sale, the taxes, and the number of items.

A list below diplays all the selected items with a checkmark that can be unckecked if you do not wish to sell that item(I.E. you'll make more reprocessing it)
You can also right click each individual item and select "create sell order" through that same window and it will automatically adjust everything to select the new price.

Each item will show the price you will receive for that item or stack of like items, and will show the % above or below regional average.

Nice and organized, quick and easy....Better for everyone..
Gevlin
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2012-01-29 01:22:47 UTC
not sure if this is in the right spot

Problem: Inventory management for a POS is hell when you are working as an alliance in 1 POS . Ie Large Mining ops with members hauling from many corps. Multiple members Compressing ore. - It is hard extremely using Alts and Jetison cans to move the corp compressed and not COmpressed around...

Solution 1:
-=A pos modual that is a 1 slot - no tabs. Allowing alliance members to take and give.

ie corp hanger with out the tabs or something 100 times the size Large Ship assembly array size would be nice.

Eve make it super large anchorable storage space with a password on it maybe.

Solution 2:
Make a ship that when in Deployed mode turns in to a massive storage space. burning Liquid Ozone or Heavy water full to maintain the ships inventory gravitational Field. - act much like a Siege thing.
This ship could also be useful in high sec so it may be a subcap ship possibly or a may be an alternate Industrial for the rorqual. to be used in Low and Null sec only.

Someday I will have the time to play. For now it is mining afk in High sec. In Cheap ships
Gevlin
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#49 - 2012-01-29 01:32:56 UTC
Problem:
I salvage, I want to sell what I have salvage to what ever buyer I can. Most of the stuff is 1 or 2 of an item.
Now I have to sell each selected item manually... this is very time consuming and annoying.


Solution:
when a group of items are selected have a sell all option that will give me an option on quick sell:
Option A - Sell to current buy orders.
Option B - Place Buy orders for all items at Average regional price at 0 or +/- a percentage of of this price.

Will see a lot more items seeded on the market and more Commerce out in Null sec.
May even make this a skill to be learn:
Auto sell /Sell order Skill - per level you may auto sell 10 Items or place a generic sell order based on regional average.
At level 5 i can Do groups of 50 separate items. at once..(this skill would be in so much demand you would be amazed.)

Someday I will have the time to play. For now it is mining afk in High sec. In Cheap ships
Gevlin
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#50 - 2012-01-29 01:47:45 UTC
Problem:
I have been playing since 2007. I have a lot of cap! in many locations and so much so I just don't even want to take the time to clean it out.
ie 100 EMPs, Shuttles, T1 Meta 0 items.

Solution 1:
I would love an inventory items button that would clear out all inventory of item of less value than 1million (or a value I set) based on Jita Price Average. Or at a set meta level I choose or less. (risk of pressing button to easily)(for whole Eden universe)

Solution 2: Better yet at a station tab have a service "The Liquidator" That you can donated all your stuff to the Hungry mouths of Sisiters of Eave orphan fund or some other NPC in game Charity. I would be able to set paramaters I can set: like all meta 0 items and a value of less than 1mill worth. (for whole Eden universe)

Little email from the charity saying thankyou.... and a little concord faction ding as a reward.(Possibly)

This would possibly clear up some of the data base items and remove assest from the game effectively.


Someday I will have the time to play. For now it is mining afk in High sec. In Cheap ships
Gevlin
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#51 - 2012-01-29 01:51:19 UTC
Problem:
I am trying to sort though modules to find out which ones are damage or not.

Solution: 1
Fade our or Red out a portion of the modules picture depending how damage it is.

Solution: 2
In the repair section can there be a button of repair anything broke in inventory. So I can just click on it, pay the isk, and get flying.

Someday I will have the time to play. For now it is mining afk in High sec. In Cheap ships
HELLBOUNDMAN
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#52 - 2012-01-29 06:47:58 UTC
Not sure if this applies directly to what we're talking about

But a trade option when out in space would be nice as long as your'e withing 2500m of the person you wish to trade with.

This way you're not having to jet can crap and don't have to simply TRUST the person.
Hylax Ciai
#53 - 2012-01-29 09:00:20 UTC
ISSUE: It's pretty cumbersome to get specific information (like damage value, insurance) about a lot of items or ships.
FIX: Add extended tooltips to ships and items that may include the following: Damage value, insurance level, cargo hold, fitting link, fuel levels for capitals, market value, etc.
Those tooltips should stay as long as the mouse is hovering the ship and the tooltip. This way you could interact with the tooltip (clicking the fitting link, opening the cargo, ...).

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Malus Rimor
Perkone
Caldari State
#54 - 2012-01-30 02:00:50 UTC
ISSUE: Organisation of personal items in station
FIX: I suggest one window with user defined tabs. Each tab can be named and have its visible item types specified by selecting from the EVE item tree.
e.g. the user might create the following tabs: All, Logi Ships, Pew Ships, Weapons, Ammo, Minerals & Blueprints, etc
These tab settings should be saved on the EVE server and also be easily imported/exported across accounts.
CCP could provide some basic tab settings for newbs, e.g: All, Ships, Mods, Ammo, Industry

I dislike the idea of using folders/tags for inventory management. I think the above idea is more inline with how the Overview filtering works (i.e. using predefined types to toggle visibility on/off).
p.s. Meta level should always be visible.



ISSUE: Dont want to reprocess
FIX: Would it be possible to select a bunch of items and sellect "Sell to the highest bidder (if any)" which would go through and bulk sell all selected items to the highest buy order for that station (if any).



ISSUE: Fitting ships can be a pain
FIX: allow an entire stack of mods to be dropped on at same time. If they are all the same weapons, ask the user if they want to group these.



ISSUE: Unfitting ships can be a pain
FIX: when removing a mod/used drones and they arent damaged, can't you just repackage them?
Malus Rimor
Perkone
Caldari State
#55 - 2012-01-30 02:07:25 UTC
Gevlin wrote:
Problem:
I have been playing since 2007. I have a lot of cap! in many locations and so much so I just don't even want to take the time to clean it out.
ie 100 EMPs, Shuttles, T1 Meta 0 items.

Solution 1:
I would love an inventory items button that would clear out all inventory of item of less value than 1million (or a value I set) based on Jita Price Average. Or at a set meta level I choose or less. (risk of pressing button to easily)(for whole Eden universe)

Solution 2: Better yet at a station tab have a service "The Liquidator" That you can donated all your stuff to the Hungry mouths of Sisiters of Eave orphan fund or some other NPC in game Charity. I would be able to set paramaters I can set: like all meta 0 items and a value of less than 1mill worth. (for whole Eden universe)

Little email from the charity saying thankyou.... and a little concord faction ding as a reward.(Possibly)

This would possibly clear up some of the data base items and remove assest from the game effectively.




I have often thought about this, I'm sure alot of us have this issue.
It might be against CCP/EVE philosophy but I had the idea of hiring NPC couriers to haul stuff to a designated location. They would fly slowly through space on autopilot and have no defenses and would only be useful for moving small amounts of worthless stuff around (at cheap cost/effort). Perhaps no CONCORD intervention for them also.
Bronin
Viking Tech Solutions
#56 - 2012-01-30 06:32:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Bronin
Problem: Whenever I haul in a load of loot I'm staring at this massive mess, right clicking on things and on stacks of things to figure if I want to sell them for what the going rate is.

Fix: Allow me to shift click, or controll click, things that I'm not SUPER concerned with (IE: many stacks of meta 1 mods) and right click and hit sell group, pop up a confirmation window allowing me to set a % threshhold. I want to sell everything that I have selected provided it's at most (X) below regional average with one click. Allow me to set what percentage of regional average (X) is.
Sinooko
Tharumec
Gespenster Kompanie
#57 - 2012-01-30 07:59:21 UTC
Problem

Cluster of tabs for cargo containers of various types.

Solution

Icons in place of text representing which ship or hangers the tab is attributed to. In the case of maybe a jump freighter's cargo and fuel bay being open at once, use a picture of the jump freighter on both tabs and the text, 'cargo hold', 'fuel bay' on their respective tabs.
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#58 - 2012-01-30 08:07:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Nova Fox
I would love a built in excel sheet with eve fetch functions thrown in it.

Can you guys also rewrite the word editor within eve there are some verious serious issues with jumping words, inability to copy past color text from areas that allow it to areas that still allows it. And being able to preserve notes or mails fully and easily remailable.

Then give us the option to save files those involved files locally and force us to check mark files to be uploaded and stored on the cloud storage where it could be reterived elsewhere when requested. If you have too put a box limit.

Then finally can we make notes into items?

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Sinooko
Tharumec
Gespenster Kompanie
#59 - 2012-01-30 08:08:23 UTC
Problem

Corporate assets management is very confusing and cookie cutter.

Solution

Easier management of who can access what as far as corporate assets such as naming pilots by name who have access to specific hangers/cans and setting up a "cheat sheet" showing who has access to what with a grid and X's that you can toggle on and off.

Allowing corp members to anchor their own containers in space.

Maybe take this as far as allowing corp members to deploy and run their own POS without allowing them the level of privileges to steal all of the corps other POS's.
Evenus Battuta
#60 - 2012-01-30 09:20:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Evenus Battuta
This window is the solution to multple sell

select multiple items--->right click --->sell--->uncheck the items with ridiculous price--->confirm, done.