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New dev blog: EVE updating - Winter expansion 2011

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Cyxopyc
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#501 - 2011-11-05 17:28:40 UTC
The most useful thing I've seen from the winter expansion is a new font. Thank you for that CCP. It's been 5 years of not knowing an 'S' from a '5', a 'l' from a 'i', a 'O' from a '0', and a 'G' from a '6'. There are others. Not since the addition of the 'align to' button have you made an improvement that will ease our EVE lives so greatly.

Please do more to fix and improve current EVE. Do less of adding new content. prettier graphics and new pretty things.


I'll list a few things to fix and improve in case you missed them.

1) With respect to nullsec. Standings don't function all the time making unfortunate players appear neutral rather than blue to their friends. As far as I know ships lost because of this are not reimbursable.

2) Using double left click to set direction and movement is a bad idea in a game that requires so much mouse use. I'd recommend alt or shift held down with one left click to set ship direction.

3) The locked targets icons should not be transparent to anything. Clicking on a locked target icon should select that locked target and not what may be in the background.

4) Recently the autopilot randomly turns on. I don't know why and I have nothing to offer as far as isolating the problem. With my Toggle Autopilot shortcut set to 'CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-OEM_MINUS' I am sure it's not me turning it on.

5) There is no gamma control in EVE or background dimmer allowing your ship modules to be viewed with ease when working in bright regions of space. It's quite important to know when a module is or is not turned on.

6) We could use a bookmark tool. Ideas here are endless.

7) Even with the addition of the much needed shield, armor and hull damage warning tones, the sound notification system in EVE is quite poor. Use short and distinguishable sounds whenever possible to help players interact with the client.

8) Remove roleplaying from error messags. If what I'm trying to do isn't working I need to know why immediately. Not at the end of a phrase describing a pretend situation.

9) When approaching a stargate do not have the 'JUMP' button brighten until the ship can actually use the stargate and jump. This includes exiting warp or just approaching while cloaked.

10) When a player is podded and appear in their home station it should not be necessary to enter a ship before undocking. However, having the Medical window open immediately showing 'SELECT CLONE TYPE' might be helpful to the absent minded.

I have many more. EVEmail me in game if you want to talk about any of the above or numbers 11 through 683 which are not listed here.
Jake Centauri
Doomheim
#502 - 2011-11-06 05:52:17 UTC
In my brief visit to Sisi today, one new thing about the font change really bothered me:

the new use of eye-searing bold in the market window and overview.

P l e a s e ! Give us an option to set that to a normal, non-bold font.
Tanya Powers
Doomheim
#503 - 2011-11-06 14:48:31 UTC
Prob SISI bug, couldn't close private chat windows....
Dogeatdog
Clarity of Purpose
#504 - 2011-11-16 18:32:16 UTC
A friend asked me the other day if eve was dead and I replied I dont know. I can answer him now...Absolutely! RE-IGNITE THE FIRE!! All I see is nerf,nerf,omg a worthless new cruiser,nerf and fix something we nerfed two patches ago. The only people who are going to love it are those that have never seen an expansion before.
Jake Centauri
Doomheim
#505 - 2011-11-16 23:00:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Jake Centauri
On today´s latest singularity build (315767), I see the following problems:

1) Ships are frozen in station. Cannot spin them.
2) Station services window always resizes and repositions when you dock.
3) Overview does not remember position and size when you undock.

I submitted a single bug report with the above problems and CCP bureaucratically told me to break
these up into 3 separate reports, otherwise they cannot process them.

My response to THAT request was not kind.
Tiger's Spirit
Templars of the Shadows
#506 - 2011-11-19 12:25:05 UTC
Just a question. What about the announced new EW drones and new faction war changes ?
I didn't see any devblog from this.
Adam Klamert
Khanid Civil Labour Union
#507 - 2011-11-21 09:54:27 UTC
question with the new aggression log off mechanics if you were to point some one and they pointed you if you both DC'd would you both still be pointing the other when you log back on?
Crexa
Ion Industrials
#508 - 2011-11-21 20:28:53 UTC
The new game font leaves something to be desired. In fact unless its used with bold face, ( which looks so so) it has the feel of an old typewriter or a dot matrix printer, if anyone remembers what those were.

"F=ma, so obviously they're putting mouths against arses to produce a force." "...its breakfast time and i am very hungry. may i have some of your paint chips?"