Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Make completely new UI.

For the sake of joves please add a change character button next to log off and quit game.
It will drop you back to character selection menu.

And off topic but why cant characters learn simultaneously ?

EVE stands alone as the only socially complex game in the market, but suffers much from the lack of good architecture

I would propose a redesign of the EVE domain model to invigorate a new generation of players. We need to move past shortcut keys and animations

First, I would recommend EVE consider bridging the gap between gaming software and business software by practicing Domain Driven Design on the back-end. Having spent some time in the eve API's and DB dumps, it is not at this level of modeling sophistication

Second, I would suggest inventory is the core of EVE and deserves the most attention, as it is connected to every major aggregate in the game. Inventory drives the economy of EVE and is the foundation of trade, manufacturing, PVP, and even player behavior. These principles should flow from core models, to the service layer, and definitely all the way to the user interface

Although I agree with the fundamental philosophy of EVE being driven at the microeconomic scale, users think at the macroeconomic scale and need a way to interact with the market at that level. With a redesigned inventory model we could have any number of dimensions to get lost in just by clicking around the market in our geographical area. Instead of seeing a rough data-mining perspective on micro-economic data (average prices, highs, lows, etc...), we could start to understand the value in trade routes, production lines, regional advantages, and be rewarded for our efforts in researching and/or creating this data. Skills become a dimension, assets become a dimension, location becomes a hierarchical dimension, and the whole thing just gets a lot more dynamic and interactive. Each of these concepts should become part of the team's ubiquitous language and integrated into the domain model. From there it will find a fit down to the database and up to the user interface

Just one quick example to make it more practical. If I have a component, I might be able to see within one or two clicks from that product (whether its in the market, hangar, or in a regional profile) to see my assets in or related to that item, my recent consumption via kills or losses, the trade routes associated with it that I have contributed (or interfered) with, perhaps within all the bounds of my current skillset. Unfortunately this can't happen by laying out data tables. It only happens with a true domain layer (again, Domain Driven Design). To accomplish this, you start with a base component, then you abstract out various types of relationships between components, then you inject meaning to these relationships through the user interface, then hopefully you add a few 0's to the end of the subscribed members. Throw in a geographical load balancing architecture (in EVE, not RL... its already the most latency-friendly MMO on the planet), followed by a geographical session migration strategy (both seem to exist already to an extent?) and your golden... in two years:)

+1

Issue:
Inventory and market search has poor functionality. For example, putting "cap" into the search field will return both Capacitor Rechargers and Cap Power Relays. Putting "cap recharger" into the search field will return nothing, because the game will look for an item with the string "cap recharger" in the name, rather than treating the two as separate keywords.

Fix:
Inventory and market search should be by default keyword-based.

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Issue:
Corporation and Alliance show-info panel does not have drag-drop functionality -- currently a player cannot drag-drop the alliance/corporation as a link from its info panel. In general, any time an info panel shows an icon or a logo, we should ideally be able to drag-drop that icon as a link into chat and mail boxes.

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Issue:
Cannot drag-drop players from the overview to chat windows and the watch-list. Not sure if it's possible, but would be nice, especially for logistics pilots. This way when we see someone in a squishy ship, we can directly drop their name into watch-list and link him for other logistics to watch-list without having to first find that player in a channel member list.

Give me my old UI back or the option for one. Really disappointed so far with majority of the changes.

I like the sentiment of this idea, but consider merging the ui, so that you're not bringing up so many extra dialogs. I'm not sure how the UI is built, but if you can get slideouts or dropdowns in place instead, so that the ui doesn't require as much clicking around, and CCP can possibly reduce resource usage. So, instead of requiring us to bring up separate dialogs for Blueprint and installation, allow us to pick each in the ui itself. Dropdowns that lazy load, with a default selected (instead of pick one) would be a nice optimization that reduces overhead for the user.

One tiny thing I would like is to be able to use the middle mouse button or mouse wheel to target lock ships displayed on the overview, or double clicking.

Would also like the ability to view minimized chat windows by hovering my pointer over them.

I usually place all my stuff categorized in station containers. There might be a better way, please let me know if there is. It works quite well with a few exceptions:

Issue: Password, I don't need that on my own stuff that will never leave my hangar.
Suggestion: Station containers without passwords.

Another issue here is that if you reinstall or start on a new computer all containers are locked. No biggie, but with the above it would be solved. The next best thing would be to be able to unlock a selected span of containers. Now I have to go in and uncheck that setting on every container.

I'd like the ability to buy a predefined fitted ship. Show the combined cost and how many at x cost I can buy

Example

Purchasing "My drake fit" (going with some drake fit for example)
1 @ 40,000,00
2 @ 45,000,00
1 @ 47,250,00
5 @ 50,000,00

(show something like 4 - 5 lines)

3 orders would add up to 130,000,000

Also, allow setting a maximum buy price for a fit. Like say I want 10 orders of a fit, but I don't want to pay more than x per fit. "I want 5 drake fits but max buy price is 42,500,000.

Also, completely different note. I'd like to be able to reprocess items from my ship, and I'd like a select all/ select all in container option. Show a container, indent items in said container. if I select the container, select all the items within without selecting the container. Click #2 selects container (if everything underneath is selected). Click #3 deselects everything.