Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So I'm bringing back this old thread from the old forums. Credit given where due to Akita T, shame she couldn't be here to start this thread herself. But here is a piece from the old thread:

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SO, WHAT IS THE "THOUSAND PAPERCUTS" PROJECT ?

It's an attempt to gather intel a lot of really small things that you put up with easily for some reason (usually because you got used to it after a while, short or long), but it still kind of bothers you to some tiny (or not so tiny) degree.
Each and every one of those things might not even really be annoying in itself (and at least for some, changing them might probably NOT be really worth CCP's time yet, to be honest), but there might be so many that they end up giving you an overall feeling of discomfort, or stress, or whatever you'd like to call it.


WHAT DO I WANT FROM YOU ?

If you have one such minor inconvenience, whenever you encounter it, please describe it in here.
THE SMALLER THE INCONVENIENCE, THE BETTER.
You know, the small things... those you'd feel embarrassed to file a bug report for since they're so insignificant, or even never really bother to start a thread about it for fear of being laughed at for being too whiny about something most people don't even consider that much of an inconvenience.
Things like:
* "I wish the use/trash options on the menu would have more distance between them"
* "I'd love if the timer for switching between ships was shorter than 30 seconds"
* "I hate that nebula background images are so low resolution, I see nasty colorbands and blocks on my monitor at high resolutions"
* "I don't like waiting 5-10 minutes for the remote asset list to reload"
* "I'd like it if when I create a fleet I'd be made squad commander by default"
* "I want more font options"
* "It would be great if I could select a default showinfo tab"
* "The blinking of the character sheet icon after claiming certificates annoys me, why do I have to open it again for it to stop blinking, I was just there"
* "The "location" turret position on the "shipname" model annoys me because "reason""
* "Why do I have to stop training a skill when I clonejump, can't it pause and resume automatically?"
...and so on and so forth.


WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS ?

Well, there are several.

First off, maybe that minor annoyance you always had has some way to be sidestepped that somebody else found but you weren't aware of (hey, weirder things have happened).
If you think you have a solution to one of the issues presented, don't be shy, say it.

Second, some of those things might be trivial to fix/change, and merely the fact they're brought forth will trigger their fix/change.
Yeah, a bit of too much wishful thinking, but you never know.

Finally, after enough of these minor annoyances are collected, hopefully the most commonly perceived as annoying ones that so far were deemed not worth the time will hopefully get some attention from CCP when they're brought up as individual items.
However, they would have to be common to quite a few people before they even deserve to be elevated to that particular status.

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Hopefully CCP will keep tabs on this thread and look for anything to improve. So get to poasting those little bugger!

aur/nex
get rid of it
no space barbie plz this is spaceships

Moved from General Discussion

Down Vote.

This isnt a minor inconvience, its a major feature overhaul you're asking for we're specifically asking to get rid of about a quater million usd of software right there.

Post something useful next time like...

PI windows not being stackable/movable

Something semi-related to above.


There are people in highsec with bounty on their heads,
yet they aren't criminals and i'm not free to shoot them.

This really makes no sense! :)


There was this guy undocking at the station, undocking,
having a too low faction standing, so the local police popped his ship.

There was enough time to check him, because i always check when the message appears.
(criminal bla you will be punished bla)

He had 20 Million ISK on his head and when his pod appeared ...
... the next step simply was a logical consequence ... lock, point, shoot.

CONCORD comes and blows me away,
while at the same time confirming the transaction of 20 Million ISK bounty to my wallet.

Simply makes no sense.


Oh and ...

I really hope he believed nobody would ever shoot him anyway,
just because it's ******* highsec. :)

Why exactly what this moved to the F&I? The old one was kept in the General Discussion. Would like this moved back ther if posible or an explanation please

You're welcome, Ive been around long enough to know that I have to try to abuse any new FnI when and if possible to my advantage as a shoot down point.

Trying to promote critical thinking.

Think, annoyances that you have when doing day to day things in eve.

Subject 1 was discussed recently, and I hope somone at ccp might have noticed it, making all planets and heavenly bodies of that mass act like a warp bubble. So that when your path goes into a planet you get yanked out of warp.

It would annoy some fleets but theyll get smart and bounce around.


Subject 2 was attemped before, not sure what it resolved to but it seems like a dropped idea, in that mass would account for bumping mechanics, an interceptor would not be able to shove off a battleship at all sort of deal, an avatar would plow though entire formations flinging them all out of the way. QA however spawned 30 titans on an anchored POS and made it fly out of system with the fix and since then shut that idea down.

I tend to have a set of windows tat i believe is cruicial for me when I am in combat. These windows I feel take up unnecessary amount of space on the screen making it super hard to fit everything.
I made a screenshot of what i mean:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/847/screenbz.png/

The red boxes are "dead" space that Have little to no use to me but that I cant remove.

For example, if I'm not probing after people I have no use for the ystem scanner tab or the moon analysis tab on my directional scanner, yet they're there and take up space where locked targets should appear.
The local chat is another window that ought to be smaller (horisontally), since during combat the chatbox section is of little to no interest.
Also, the people and places window for quick access to safespots take up unneccecary amounts of space and if tweaked wouldn't block the dronewindow if it were to be placed to the lower right corner.

I guess my point is that there are alot of small dead space areas that could be tweaked to that the end result would be a better view overall.


Secondly. there should be separate shortcuts to open the starmap and to open the solarsystem map. For a prober it tedious to have to load between the two as you alternate between setting waypoints and view the layout of the system.

Thur: Try a different game.

This thread is for sugessting improvements. What is wrong with you?