EVE General Discussion

*Yawn*

Forums are full with real good ideas. I support this.

The reality is: CCP can't deliver at a constant pace. They introduce something new, something else get broken. In the end they'll destroy the universe, I wonder who gets their stuff?

Launch Drone Keyboard shortcut, able to be mapped.

Alt+x > Launch Drone Group x (the group can be named, but the game will still see it as Drone Group 1)

Player name (# of drones in group) [EVE client group name]

Angle Cartel Light Drones (5) [Drone Group 1]

Hobgoblin II (5) [Drone Group 2]

Hammerhead II (3) [Drone Group 3]

LOL Acolyte (1) [Drone Group 4]

etc.

- make custom non-Fx/ctrl/alt shortcuts work when in some kind of window which is NOT a text input box. now if you clicked bookmark for example, you need to click out in space in order to use number/letter key shortcuts. this really sucks when you bound mid/low slots to 1-8 q-i keys which is a kind of logical thing to do.

Combat Log needs a clean up:

Individual tabs per damage and notice type

Obvious visual things that need to be done eventually:

- V3 all the ships (now in the works)
- Visible missile launchers (now in the works)
- Customizable ships (now in the works)
- Visible ship damage
- Better ship deaths (gradual deaths for larger ships instead of SUDDEN EXISTENCE FAILURE, combine with above for massive immersion boon)
- Ship-specific wrecks (instead of the generic unidentifiable masses we currently get)
- Random hit locations (instead of hitting the same spot over, and over, and over, and over...)

Pipe dream: VISIBLE CREW MEMBERS. I want to see those buggers spilling out into space! Also, escape pods. Yeah, this ain't happenin' any time soon...


Anyways, I think if all of the above were accomplished, even the boring monotony of ratting could become a glorious spectacle as you behold your ship chipping away or catastrophically damaging enemy ships without looking at health bars, allowing you to witness the carnage as their hull is breached, sending hapless crew members spilling out into the void of space, doomed to die of exposure to vacuum, if not from the inevitable explosion of the ship itself.

I'd also love to be able to one day breach enemy communications and listen in as they scream in frustration and agony as my ship bores its way into their hull. As their fleets whittle down towards nothing, I would smile as I hear the remaining forces growing increasingly panicked as they realize their chances of survival have become equivalent to null and void.

As it is, however, the act of blowing up battleships is such a boring, pedestrian affair, with none of the humanity that an actual space battle would entail, as there are so many elements that would make it much clearer that you are decimating and slaughtering hundreds or thousands of people with every turret blast.

But I digress. This is kind of outside the scope of this thread, I know...

remove repeating message notifications " Your Launchers Failed to fire because the target is imploding" or some crap like that.

Better tools on teaching new comers and older places, the Help system is ok but it needs a bit of cleaning up and upgrading with info and setting up to be better for new and old places to eve.

Need more and better starting agents that teach you the ropes a bit better some of them are ok but there are things missing that need to be teach to players when coming in to eve. Its not about making the gamer easier its about teaching players how to use the tools they have been given better.

The UI in general could also use an upgrade as well, things just feel a bit all over the place and could use the clean up. Also been able to change your UI would be rely nice too, moving things or removing things u never use ect, the little things add up a lot in eve.

Thumbs up for providing auto save to the forums to counter the time out issue. One less thing to worry about.
Thank you.

Eve is hard ... and considering the time it took you to reply after the "bump", please read the original post before hitting quick reply next time.

Good list, but I think this feature already exists, and is implemented better than a bar region.

- snap chat windows to the bottom (or to any other window)
- doubleclick the header bar

Member count is visible, and it blinks on new activity.

Or is there something I'm missing?