Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Please, for the love of all things ... well, that blow up and go BOOM:

1. Eve should be runnable from an external hard drive, usb stick, etc, so we can get our "Neural Fix" wherever! Settings shouldn't have to be redone in this situation.

2. Eve should never depend on Windows Registry or otherwise leave a footprint on a System when the user specifically wants a stand alone installation.

3. Eve should have an explicit option to NOT use "My Documents," and every setting, etc, would be inlined with the installation, (cache, etc).

4. Settings, (overview settings, keyboard shortcuts, etc), should be sharable between accounts for multi-boxers.

5. This is SO pie in the sky, but the Eve installation should have a root Eve folder of some sort, a Mac folder, a Windows folder, and a Linux folder, and a "Shared" or "Common Folder" ... and MOST OF ALL, A SETTINGS FOLDER that isn't O.S. dependent. Test Server stuff, VIP, should also be figured in that somehow as well, so Settings can be imported into that installation branch without the potential of corrupting the production code.

6. NO MORE @#$@^ #$@#$ RIGHT HANDED DISCRIMINATIONISTIC SETTINGS THAT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST US FEW EPICALLY SUPERIOR LEFT HANDED PEOPLE.

7. *Cough. A button that lets you auto unset EVERY "clearable" shortcut key at once... Cuz yes, us left handed people probably don't want to keep anything the same as we use the numpad, A LOT.

8. OSX HAS NO NUMLOCK. PLEASE I BEG YOU. Please Have Eve Online switch to NUMLOCK ON mode in OSX, so we can also map our page up, down, right arrow, etc, keys separately from the numpad.

9. Overview "Views" that prioritize drones down .... even if they are closer... Or other ship types, based on if they are in your fleet, faction, corp, etc.

10. For the above mentioned Addicts: Please, PLEASE, PLEEZ, update the video card settings to support switchable graphics cards, so that we can get Eve to use the fast GPU, rather than the intel HD graphics card, or whatever.

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Exactly this stuff for me also.

How about being able to save your EVE settings within EVE Gate?
(thus being able to download it anywhere and applying it to a local EVE installation)

One thing I want which is always overlooked

I want the Filter Presets on Broadcasts tied into my overview settings !!


So For my PVP-Logistics filter I want it to save that I have removed "Broadcast Target" on the overview setting.

Then when I switch to my PVP-DPS filter I want it to remember that I now want to see my broadcast target but I don't care about who is broadcastign for armor anymore.


Frankly the lack of this makes people not even use the function because it is way to easy to forget to set it back between different types of pvp until it is too late.

We should be able to save settings on the server, and we should also be able to send it to others as a link.

I think having a simple config file, that games such as Quake in all its iterations always had, where users can modify in game and then save/re-write, or modify in Notepad etc.

What I would save is Keyboard Shortcuts, Overview settings, I would not save things like graphic options as everyone's machines differ and would not be useful.

Make it simple to import/export settings and allow partials to load as well, what I mean by this is for instance:

I have a config file that has my War Overview but everything else is different and someone only needs the War Overview, and does not want to change their buttons, allow users to select export only Overview as a file, and when someone loads it into their client voila, only the overview has changed.

Can work as both client side/server side, like Quake Live itself stores on its server and allows you to save your own config on your PC.

Anyways just my thoughts.

I'd like to be able to store settings into profiles and launch the EVE client with a specific profile provided via command-line. I currently have two EVE installations because I use the same account/character in two drastically different use cases. I have a windowed mode for one form of gameplay, and a full screen mode for a different form of gameplay, on the same account/character, each with very different chat/overview/video/window size&position settings.

I hope that any improvement to settings would, at best, include some kind of switchable/selectable profile to enable this and make it so I could just swap between these two setting profiles with a command line parameter using one EVE install. At worst, I certainly hope CCP doesn't centralize settings to an account/character in such a way that it removes my ability to have these two completely different use cases on the same account and character even when using multiple client installs.

I want to have a simple option in the menu that allows me to choose whether I save my settings on my account, on my computer, or both. The things I want saved most are the in-station icons down the left part of the screen and everything I have setup in the overview. It would also be nice if I could make changes to the way the game saves window shapes and positioning. I want my cargoholds to always open in the same part of the screen no matter what ship I am using, but to have a different setting for in station vs. in space.

Couple of things I have noticed that could be helped with settings import / export

1) If you close all windows then all your chat channels close as compared to minimize. If they have passwords its a pain in the tuckus to have to go back, find all the channels and passwords, to reload. This a) shouldn't happen, and b) be ripe for a settings option so that you don't have to go through this if you are trying to do filming or such without the GUI getting in the way.

2) Overview: 5 tabs are definitely not enough. I'm constantly switching between overview set-ups depending if I'm doing incursions, mining, pve, pvp, etc.. Would be nice if we could save a group of 5 tabs and then call them all up at once

3) Window placement and sizing: again - similar to the overview, I typically have different placement of windows depending on the activity: station trading vs mining vs incursions. Would be nice to have an option to save the size and placement of the windows so that you just call up the profile you want and Poof! there they are - the way you need them

4) Fitting Management: better control over getting fittings in/out of the fittings management window. Direct text import would be appreciated rather than constantly having to save to file first and then import. Similar with export.

5) Fitting Management: PLEASE INCREASE THIS FROM THE CURRENT LIMITS OF 100/200 !!!!!!!!

6) Browser Bookmarks. Change to allow folders and possibly exchange of bookmark information between links as part of the in-game browser and google/ie/ff

7) Science and Industry: The manufacturing. copying, invention, ME/PE research interface is really bad. For stations I get it, but if you own a POS where there are a limited number of people with access it would be nice to have standard jobs available that you can just trigger without having to go through 20 mouse clicks. i.e. blueprint, bp location (in/out), submission type (mfr, inv, cpy), assembly unit, number of runs. Once you have set this up once it should just be a single click to re-execute. The ability to a) do this with one mouse click and then b) import / export the settings would be a huge improvement over the existing process.

1) What settings would you like to have stored?

2) How would you expect the synchronization (import/export) to function? What would the interaction be?

3) How would you go about sharing settings with other players? (directly or in-directly)

firstly im a very new player to eve and im no computer genius either so what ever is done about this issue NEEDS to be simple like save and load (import/export whatever floats your boat)

1. personally i have 2 characters that are completely different (not accounts) i noticed that when i switch from one alt to another the settings are unchanged, uncool. one of my alts is pretty much just a miner (for now) and my second is PVP/bounty hunter. what i would like is to just save my window settings (or just have them consistent for that specific character). as far as the overview goes i don't see a need to have more then 5 tabs per character so as long as each character has his own profile/setup.

2. "(or just have them consistent for that specific character)", "NEEDS to be simple like save and load (import/export whatever floats your boat)"

3. with one of my overview settings i went with a website found by google which had pictures of what it should look like for simplicity. that's fin with me because the settings should be saved in the first place so big woop if it takes me an hour (+) to get everything the way i like it as it would be the only time i should fiddle with it. (in WOW the buttons were reset on every major update but i was more then ok with it as it only happened once every 3 or 4 months