EVE Information Portal

The new site looks great and is a nice tool for newer players. It needs tweaking, but the complaints I have have already been addressed by others. All in all it's shaping up nicely.

I'm not a fan of you trying to trick your customers though. I understand why you chose a cool sounding profession like a bounty hunter, but at best you are giving the false impression, that there is something called a bounty hunter profession in this game. On a strict technical level it's true, since rats pay a bounty and you could try to hunt players with a bounty, but you know god damn well shooting rats is not what anyone thinks when they see a bunty hunter profession and the player bounty system is totally broken and useless. They are going to think that it's an actual profession you can focus on instead of a meaningless label you can attach to almost everyone who does any PvE in this game.

You're just setting up people for disapointment when they find out what you meant and what useless piece of crap the player bounty system is. They come in thinking they're going to be a badass bounty hunter and get to hunt targets in a huge player driven universe, but the only bounty hunting they actually can do is grinding boring mission rats or shooting the same boring rats in belts. It's a cool concept that will get people to try out the game, but it'll equally likely leave everyone of them with a bitter taste in their mouths and feeling disapointed on how shallow and broken the actual gameplay for bounty hunting really is.

Just posting as an FYI.

When I LIKE the new pilot orientation video -> http://www.eveonline.com/creations/videos/3320/cdia-pilot-orientation/ and post it to facebook, it is instead linking it to the Empyrian Age teaser 2 video.

Not sure if the links are messed up on any of the others.

Fix with no bling what so ever -> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/125184.

Looks horrible but works as you would predict it does.

Have fun - it is free.

original version screenshot
new version screenshot

Should work directly in chrome or in firefox with greasemonkey addon.
Customize to your own pleasure.

OMG CCP, do you really call this crap a website?

Return previous website! Convenient, simple, intuitive, understandable. What i see not not even a website. This is an EVE adversitement page. Where is news i could see immedietly? Where is links to databases, evelopedia and account managenment? Where is all functionality EVE player needed?
What i see now? Pretty picture, movie, and lots of fancy adversitement! Spaceship preview! WOW! Does Eve player need it? Not. It made to impress potential newcomer. 3D spacemap with "Valuable" information like "Ships killed last 24 hours" WOW! Do i suppose to be impressed? Not. Eve player already have all this in game. So, it made to cause possible "WOW!" of possible new subscriber, not the one who play EVE.
This is good that you trying to attract new players, im not against at all. But this is a adversitement page, It can't be main EVE online page. This is not what we, who playing EVE, want to see when looking at website.
Functionality of this fancy disaster you dare to call "New Website" is close to nothing. I do not want to belive it will remain like this. Because it is meaningless now.
Return normal website as it was before! At least, make it possible to load old style website! PLEASE!
Be honest to yourself - what you made is NOT a EVE website, This is EVE Adversitement page! (And, btw, made according to classic asian MMO template)

Very displeased player.

- I was annoyed after forums got linked out from main site
- I was annoyed because eve gate was forced to be used to use forums
- I was annoyed when forums didn't get fixed
- I was annoyed when I realized that you rather spend time to nonsense instead of fixing stuff what is broken.
- I was annoyed when I saw the latest changes and further plans you have for this site.
- I was annoyed when I realized that while nerdy kids code without brains, there is nothing more than bling to expect.

...but then I realized that you guys can keep your s*it. I'm not going to invest single dime to this game any more before neocom, names and website including the forums are restored to the point where usability is at least on same level than it was before.

CCP did great in crucible 1.0 and many teams have been shining after that also. It is really sad that there is so many rotten apples in CCP still. You guys ruin the quality of the work which those other guys started to raise the bar. There has been too many disappointments in a row now. Feel free to hate me because I feel pretty much the same towards you. Couldn't care less about your future. I hope you get replaced.

My feedback on just the main site, not the community one:

- First off, let me say that I like the idea of what is being done here. I think a main site to cater to potential new players with a separate site for people already playing is good. This way we can have a lean site with just what we need and the marketing can live and grow the way it needs to.

- My initial thought on the design is, wow this is slick and cool. But....

- Even as I look at this on my res 2560x1440 monitor, I can't help but feel like too much of the actual content requires too much scrolling to get to. The look is clean and that is good, but I feel like space is somehow not being used efficiently, especially in the in the top 400 pixels or so.

- There MIGHT be a little too much white for EVE. I think the color scheme is pleasant and slick-looking but it might need some darker elements if you really want to give people an accurate impression of EVE.

- The top nav system does not make it clear that you can click directly on the top element which is important because those are the landing pages. For example, going directly to The Sandbox >> Loyalist (which is what many people will do) provides absolutely no context and is confusing.

- Under The Sandbox, it makes more sense to put the personality test in the first element (far left) before the types.

- I know it gives people some sort of reference, but having the ship and the 3 little trait-type icons for the profession types is REALLY misleading and for someone coming from other games where roles are defined in-game this heavily implies that these are the traits and ships you get. I do really like the avatars you chose for these though.

- I think "Creations" is an inappropriate/misleading word for what is under that section. I think something like "Imagery" is better.

- I said this in another thread but will simply agree with what others have said, the list in the ship viewer is not efficient. The links Darsain posted are a good direction to head. I don't think any new person will have any use for the flat list, you should save yourself some room and remove the option. Also, there needs some way to tell the scale between the ships.

- The maps are cool but really useless without a legend and/or labels. What do "People and Personalities" have to do with ships lost in the last 30 days?? For politics why are we not looking at an actual sov map? I could go on but the point is this is a potentially AWESOME feature for pulling in new people but right now it doesn't really give them a good idea about what they are looking at.

- Listing the number of wormhole systems holds no meaning to new players. It would make more sense and be more interesting to call them "uncharted" systems.

- EVE Live ticker is GREAT! I think using times instead of dates for some of those entries would make it seems MORE live.

- I know it is nice to advertise that there are new expansions out and new features, but that has no reference for new/potential people. It might not make sense to have that so prominent on the main site.

- I agree with others that the video should auto-play. But while we are at it, why are my volume options only LOUD and OFF?

- The "Try EVE" button should pulse invitingly, just sayin'

Overall I love the new 21st century website! :)

The Pilot Orientation video is fantastic. The lack of metagame references helps with the immersion for those who enjoy it.

Great to see some EON stories uploaded and it's very convenient for all of them to be in .epub/.mobi format for those with e-readers! Hopefully the rest of the chronicles and lore will appear soon.

I suppose t he only thing I wish is if the community site could somehow be merged with EVE Gate to minimise the amount of websites. You'd have your "splash page" (the new site) and then any current players would immediately defer to EVE Gate.

I agree that the top-right call-to-action button could be enlarged, but I disagree with some people's feedback that it is out of place. Putting a CTA button right of the navigation and near the top-right of the page is common practice; it even notifies you (via the arrow) that it is a drop-down menu. While the usability could be improved (as always in UX, of course), I would guess that those who compare it unfavorably to the last site simply had the last one memorized.

So videos are still flash based? I think they should be able to be played in th igb. Doenst that work when using html 5? New Players maybe want to whatch those videos whil firing up the game for the first time ;).

Just how finished are these sites as they currently stand, because they kind of look decidely unfinished to my untrained eye...