EVE General Discussion

In WoW I use...

Dominos (action bars - no more Blizzard bottom bar)
Masque (buttons - Still have to design a template to match guild colors)
Pitbull (avatar and target boxes - guild colors + 3D animated avatar)
Tidy Plates (aggro and better looking attack bars - guild colors)
TipTac (hovers - guild colors)
Vuhdo (heal box - fully customizable replacement for raid frames).

Used to use Quartz for the casting bar and buff notifications, but Vuhdo does that already and has become too bloated.

Ingame scrolling stats instead of Power Auras, since my class already glows enough as it is.

So yeah, since I can fully customize the UI in WoW, would like the opportunity in EvE.

What I like to see is the ability to colorize all these spreadsheets, and not just the title bars and backgrounds. Would like to colorize the line if an enemy shows up, and not be reduced to 8bit colors. Like my WoW guild colors to show in EvE, very particular of that color scheme as it matches every color used without clashing.

If someone is that hell bent to make a bot, nothing will stop them. They'll reverse engineer the game if need be.

Changing the UI itself doesn't make a game more "bottable", because the API doesn't function like that. It's not an .exe file that can be hacked even (so it's totally safe to even use). In games like WoW it must not interfere with the game itself, so if you delete the file, nothing about WoW itself will be changed. It'll revert to the original design.

I use Dominos to replace the Blizzard button bars. If I removed the addon, presto the Blizzard bar returns. If there's an addon that interferes with how Blizzard wants the game to play (like that addon that allowed folks to draw ingame), Blizzard just breaks the API that allows it. That addon died overnight its core feature broken.

What it can do is modify on your client features that already is available and the game already uses. To make a bot it has to change the game itself and how it works, that's not how APIs work.

Because people like to customize their domain.

When the Mercury astronauts were introduced to their capsule the engineers so loved, the astronauts revolted. It didn't have a window, and worse, no flight stick (they are pilots, not monkeys being shot into space). Eventually the engineers relented. And now you see spacecraft with windows and plenty of pilot controls.

i cant even begin to describe all the prima facie nonsense in that response.

I don't understand how people have such difficulty. "Because people want things their own way!"


like once there was the very first manned spacecraft ever built and it wasn't perfect the first time, so they made changes. This is just like a UI that has been refined over 10 years, that allows you to manipulate nearly every part of it, in hundreds of different ways, right out of the box.

I wasn't challenging peoples wants, only their competence.