EVE General Discussion

I would like a DEV response to my forum post on T2 blueprints

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=34082

Is the current situation concidered OK or is this going to be at least looked at for POSSIBLE changes in the future?

More interface feedback when beginning a warp. The schizophrenic velocity meter is hard to decipher sometimes. (i.e. if it's full, why am I still not warping out)

On a similar note, reduce the collision box for acceleration gates slightly; I'm tired of getting caught on them. I'd rather see artwork clip than my gameflow interrupted.

mining crap or ore even mining in null sec is tough unless you control the entire region. Then a Botting we all go. as with the current system bot is able to log off before any belt is reached

Can we take the belts off the over view and put them as scann able items this way non- bot miners will have a chance to evac the belt if a hostile jumps into system


The current
Instant local and overview asteriod belts makes boting I think super easy or atleast bot ratting.

* I would like Wormholes to get there own option on the Scan Menu. I dislike scanning for Sigs in K Space to have to scan out 1-2 extra wormholes to find the goodies. As well it would make it easier for those inside to find both exits and content w/o having to search for both at the same time.

* The Omen could use a tiny amount Grid / CPU.

* EVE is made up mostly of Police NPC's Pirate NPC's and Players. NPC Yachts, Freighters, Shuttles and Haulers moving between Gates, Stations and Planets as well as Mining Barges in belts would be nice. Make New Eden seem full of life besides us, good guys and bad guys.

Dunno about you guys but I'd like to see alot more NPC ships going to and fro in their quests and hauling. Would make eve feel more alive.

UI > Tactical
- Add directional scan option for a 5s auto refresh; ok, I can see an argument for imposing a manual workload requirement while fighting so it's easier to overlook further incoming hostiles when overworked - but it is a bit tedious, isn't it.

* Targeting multiple ships can reset the entire locked target order (lock 5, allow to finish locking then lock two more and see where they go); As logi, I want cap chain targets in the same place, kthx. Put new targets at the back of the queue. That this doesn't happen anyway is probably a bug.

* Manually resortable watch list; As logi, I may want to sort the watch list by function, meaning that most of the time I have to clear out the whole thing to logically order it. Permit me to drag and drop names, so that I don't have to remove/readd multiple people to restore.
- Clear entire watch list; Maybe I won't want this with the above, but why not? Sometimes you will want to start over after a fleet reconfiguration, (i.e. your CS pilots from before, don't have them now) without having to drop and rejoin fleet.

- How about if the tactical overlay did the missile velocity x flight time calculation and overlaid a theoretical optimal weapons range sphere like e.g. for turrets?

UI > Flying / Controlling Ship
* Allow to preset own list (even if max <= 10) of orbit/keep at range ranges.
* Allow to 'keep at range' on cans, stargates, wrecks, probably other things.

- Surely if I want to 'engage' (default: f) with mining drones I want it to 'mine repeatedly'. Currently no map exists to simply 'do the most obvious thing'.
- Can't 'assist' ec-300's to allies, or maybe the other types, if I ever used them.

- It's far, far too fiddly to click to overheat modules. Even a tag that sticks out over the module would be far better then trying to click 2 pixels over the ring. I'm sure with some thought better could be done.

- Isn't align and approach functionally the same? see Q/A fast hotkeys. If the target is off grid/warp range and I 'approach', that's aligning to it. If I align to an object 20k away, that's approaching it. In meatspace both operations are simply 'move closer to X on a direct line'. Free a key, duplicate their function, anything that actually makes sense.

UI > General
- Combat log; option turn off drone damage indicators. They do about or less than 10-20% of the damage output on most ships. I don't need to know if i'm not in a drone boat, and really don't want to. It drowns the data I want.

* Stop server downtime spam. I don't want to actually click, read or acknowledge this. I know about downtime. It's really just annoying, and I don't even live in a TZ where I'm having to click this 3 times is during my prime time. At least for standard downtime, make it stop, or hide it or if nothing else, just warn me once, via the 5m timer. And save the 'warn on standard downtime' thing with the other 'never bother me again' boxes.
* 'Interstellar News' - at various places in 0.0, I think cosmos constallations (for a specific example, see 9-VOOQ; in fountain (also see, how I can't tell you if either 'O' is 'zero' or 'letter o' because TQ font)). I don't need to know this stuff the fiftieth time I pass through the gate. Make them go away.

UI > Bugs
* The 'you are jammed (, target painted, etc)' indicator sometimes/always get stuck and repeats forever until dock/change system (possibly an artifact of it having to redraw when a second effect is on you, then leaving the first running forever. Testable with any npc's that jam, as well as players).

UI > POS
* Allow the order of the structures in the running processes tab to be specifically set, so that yourself and other people (other accounts) can see them in the same order, universally. So I can link (especially) silos in a sensible order /and they'll stay there/.
And nearly everything else with poses (geneva convention? 2 or 3?!?) but I appreciate this is being worked on already.

UI > Wishful Thinking
- It would be really useful if I could type, in numerical input boxes like '100m' and have it autocomplete to 100,000,000 (k,m,b, (t?)). Probably not a 'little thing'. For distances, allow (in say, the dscanner) '4au' or '900m' (assume km). When you move focus, or apply/scan/enter, try to autocomplete in some sensible way. This would be useful to nearly everyone.

Scaffolding >
- All those logfiles that get left around from chat channels, combat logs, you could clean up (zip, delete) with the eve client. Ask explorer to open the folder with them in sometime. It'll take minutes to even list them.

Also, the following is neither small or functionally making-things-easier changes but it's not stopping anyone else, so >
- explosions of subcaps are weak; especially for BS / BC sized ones. I know why they're like they are, rather than complex and spectacular multi-part breakups, with secondary explosions and stuff but they really are underwhelming compared to say, the 11 year old freespace 2. I hope this is one thing to be looked at for the next visual upgrade.
- how about have 'news' have more news. As in, way more. Farm the job out to people for isk. There could even be a different 'channel' per empire and one or two neutral (oho ho ho) ones.
- an off switch for the adverts/bounties in CQ. You're being exploited. Sit and watch it for a few minutes sometime.
- cut down high sec incursions being so easy/profitable. One every 2 weeks maybe, I mean really the empires are either winning, or not. They surely don't just sit still while an outside power /farms their citizens for use as drones/. Have some big finale like 20 simultaneous incursions, GM's camp jita stargates a few days and then cut them down. In 0.0/low - spool them up to balance, which would lure people out, if they want the money and which is supposedly where it's to be found.
- the empires don't really have an ingame persona, to be honest.
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Thanks.

Two other things.

One, (on the Mac client,) whenever I launch drones, the drone bay window disappears, sometimes for 5-10 seconds at a time. It would be nice if it didn't.

Two, it would be great if you could make warp speed matter. Like, none of this speed up and slow down crap. If you have to do it a little at the end, for some technical reasons, fine, but in general there is basically no point having different warp speeds for the majority of systems.

Or, make everything further apart by a certain factor (and reduce cap use for crossing that distance by the same factor so everything stays the same except the time.)

Or decrease warp speeds by some factor (but that would make slow things sooooo slooooo.) Or increase the speed even more (but I don't think that would really do anything.

Or do the first one

Fix the timers in Faction Warfare plexes to always show (currently they often don't show for various reasons, such as not having been in system when the timer was first started).

Fix invulnerable afk cloakies. There are many ways to do this, easiest would be a limit on how long you can keep cloak activated with an increased reactivation timer (at least several minutes) after you've had cloak running for more than 10minutes or somesuch.

Make it easier to toggle overheating modules (larger target area or different UI).

Add an overheat-click hotkey, such that you can hold down a button and click on a module, and it toggles its overheating.

Allow targeting as an action that breaks the temporary cloak you get after jumping through a gate (currently you must start your ship moving to decloak yourself before you can do anything else).

Add a midslot to the Retribution and Coercer, single mid slot ships are just BAD. Change something else if it is truly needful, but it probably isn't.

It avoids those annoying disappear reappear when you launch the 5 drones u have on a ship

This would also help to poor noobie players realize that their ship has a drone bay

Oh!

The annoying habit that my skill queue has picked up of declaring itself 'empty' on login when there are still three skills training.