Player Features and Ideas Discussion

ISSUE: It's impossible to access inspace resources remotely, and this is making pos-based industry a pian.

FIX: Make accessing inspace items available. Enable us to start jobs remotely, which items are located at a POS.

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ISSUE: Moving 1000+ BPs from one division to another at pos labs makes the client too laggy.

FIX1: improve item handling
FIx2: Make labs able to handle jobs from other storages at the same POS (would be better).

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ISSUE: Meta/tech information is missing from a lot of items, this makes ordering by those columns not really useful.

FIX: add meta/tech info for all items.

Issue: general managment or excessive stuff is a pain

Fix: perhapse a windows explorer type system. i.e. a list of expandable "folders" (which coudl well be storage containers of sorts which you have to buy to "add a folder") on the left and a window with contents on the right. would make draging and droping items from one can to another a lot easier.

issue: if you have more people living out of a pos or staion than there are corp hangar tabs, they often have to share hangar tabs with other people (which makes theft from corp mates pretty easy), or put up a heap more hangar arrays to assign enough tabs for everyone (which clutters up pos's).

Fix: allow creation of named partitions of X size in corp hangars. they should be specific to the particular station/pos/ship that there setup for and have access rules which allows you to assign each partition to whoever you want. That way, new members could be given their own tab in the corp hangar, and as they progress through the corps ranks, they could be upgraded into larger partitions etc. would make it easier for corporations living out of a pos in a WH, for example, to ensure people aren't going to be ripped off by another corpie, and their pos isn't going to be so full of hangars, its impossible to land a capital ship inside the shields


could also benefit from the explorer tree idea from issue one. Could be hard to impliment, but hey, thats why they pay you guys the big bucks.

Two way to fix and both are needed. Both are close at hand and already in the game, sorta.

Sortable window that has tabs (queues) that are exactly like the market categories, and can even look like the market if you want. The tabs are only populated if you have items that fit into that particular market-type category. (looks a lot like buying items with the limit set to station except the right-hand window shows your items and not market prices.)

Second:
Please make a sortable window by ship fitting slots. High slot items in one tab, med in another, etc.

Would make fitting a for a new ship or refitting much easier by knowing what you have on-hand to fit, and what you need to buy.

I have a minor cosmetic suggestion that may be unrelated to what you guys are working on or expecting. It is inventory related though.


General situation/Issue: Games sometimes have a hard time giving items substance. They are after all just abstract objects in a simulation. In EvE the substance is provided through colourful icons and descriptions.

Solution: Having simple sounds when manipulation an object can add a lot of substance and immersion. This could be added when dragging an object between different containers, but might get annoying when organizing objects within the same container. Simplicity rules in this case. A simple 'pling', 'plonk' or 'thump' usually works well depending on the object. Giggling exotic dancers would probably be over the top and annoying.

Not sure how this falls into play, but

Issue - t2 versions of some items look the Same as their t1 counter parts
I.E. t2 missiles look the same as t1 and when fitted show no tech marker, so you have to physically check what you have fitted.

Fix - color rendering. I.E. with missiles, t2 fury and t2 precision should be distinguishable from t1 and the counter t2 variant.
The simple way to fix this is rendering t1's a solid color, t2 fury, the front half is colored showing that's where all the power is and t2 precision render the back half the related color.

THIS cant be posted often enough.
easy to implement & maximum effort

anyone else notice you cant repair/ repackage items in a corporation office that's in station that has these facility's

or is it just me :)

ISSUE: A list of 300 different modules, ammoes, and things

SOLUTION:

An automatic filtering system like the overview. Items I'm interested in get sorted into nice, neat folders and everything else is dumped in an "other" folder. In addition, set up in a way that I don't have to sort each new Noctis load every time I unload, the new stuff is automatically picked up by the filters.

Ideally, the query system would be fairly rich, allowing for saved, nested searches.

all

drones
+ AND T1
+ AND T2

ammo
+ AND projectile AND T1
+ AND heavy missile AND kinetic AND faction
+ AND frequency crystal AND (faction OR T2)
++ AND damage

meta(4)
+ AND heavy missile launcher
+ AND artillery
+ AND auto-cannon
+ AND energized adaptive nano membrane

A list of searches like this letting me click each one and only pulling those items that fit the filter out of the station inventory. A single item may come up in multiple filters without having to apply tagging meta-data to every stack.

Issue: Using an X-Large Ship Assembly array as a big container.

Fix: Add to the game and Capital Corporate Hangar Array.

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Issue: Hard to manage items on corporate hangar array

Fix: Add the ability to make sub-divisions/ Folders in the tab. So we can name each one with the name of a player and he will not need to Place Cans all over everywhere making that mess.

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Issue: Hard to manage ships on Ship maintenance array. And take eons to load everything...


Fix: Add the ability to make sub-divisions/ Folders and add tabs. So we can name each one with the name of a player and he will not need to Place Cans all over everywhere making that mess.

Possibly already mentioned but as a Salvager I wouldn't mind the ability to filter items by their UI; or even be able to separate items temporarily (items to be sold / items to be reprocessed / items to be kept) without the need of an entire station container.

A tag at the bottom of the item (much like the T2/3 and Faction/Deadspace tags in the upper left) to note it's meta-level would even work, but I'd imagine that'd be pretty resource heavy.

Mostly just a thought on streamlining the item process.. Not sure if that applies here..