Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Enjoy my pointlessly wordy title? No? oh well I am not a fan of pointless fluff, fancy hubs, and interesting imposed "ergonomic" systems either but apparently I have to deal with them.

Lets talk shall we? new changes in Eve are wonderful, we love them. I love them. I even liked Incarna to a certain extent. I enjoy new features that make game play easier, more appealing, graphically interesting and fun. The new in station management system is none of these. It comes off like a last minute idea that some anal retentive programer who enjoys making his own custom desktop layouts proposed at the last minute.

Nothing about it makes the game easy to use when in station. It is complex but looks fancy.

Want to move items from one ship cargo hold to another? SURE! but I will make sure its as annoyingly complex and vague as possible, because it builds players experience! Its exactly like dealing with ineffective onsite logistical teams just as you would experience in a real life hanger BUT IN SPACE!

Want to open 2 ship cargo holds at once? Sure, but you cant see the ship you want unless you open the hanger bay (or shift click it). You cant drag out the option to create a new window (like everything else in the game), no you have to hold 3 keys to do it.

Want to see your cargo in a ship? Sure, but regardless of your attempts to create individual displays for each of your items, you will be resorted back to your new pull down screen! YAY REDUNDENCY!

Its like having your computer folder stuck on list. Its annoying and few people use it. Furthermore, computers offer the ability to change it. At least, much like the rest of the game, let me have the option to use the old system. I liked it. I could coming into a station and just open my inventory without jumping through hops. I could open my hanger and look at all the ships I never fly, and wonder if it logs how many times i spin my unused Guardian. I could open individual cargo-holds with a simple click. But no, Eve is new, and therefor complex.

Please give me back the simple structure that allowed organization to be a visual thing, and not a numbers and letters game. The new one is wordy, confusing, and annoying to use. Video games are visual, old system understood that. New system reminds me too much of trying to hid porn in sub folders at work.


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