EVE General Discussion

In the Planets section of the Science & Industry tab, there is room for an extra column where a player could leave themselves a note about what the planet does. Where now you just see, hypothetically:

Adrel XI
Charmerout IV
Yona II
Yona III
Yona V

Something like this would have a lot more information:

Adrel XI export water only
Charmerout IV export bio, import precious
Yona II import p3s
Yona III pak chooie unf
Yona V export toxic

I do a lot of PI and I generally have to check my spreadsheet every day to remember which products are coming from / going to which planet.

here are some things which bugger me since ages:


- UI in Space especially (list of objects in space, chat frame, drone frame, navigation frame, fleet frame etc)
All this list type ui frame elements are terrible to interact with, look strange and respond slow, not intuitive!!
New ideas are needed, get rid of list style that's so 2001. There urgently needs to be something done. New players get shocked by this pile of ugly lists.
Wordcloud of SpaceUI: listings, Complex, Frame Maze, not-responsitive, not-intuitive, Horror, eye-shocking.



- POSes. Are these big , hughe space orbs still needed? can players archive all this thiungs with offices and stations nowadays? They do feel unatural. No one in real Space would create a pos. They would build a station with modules or use satelites or landing mobiles.
Conclusion: Feels bizzare, unnatural and way to complex. I try to avoid the word immersion but each time someone talks about a POS i think WTF.
WordCLoud of POS: Bubble, Shield, Pos-Shooting, Modules, Transports, MoonGo, Hangar, Anchor



- Balance as usual. change is good. stagnation is bad :
WordCloud for Balance: Winmatar, HotDrop, Alpha, buffertank, more Logis

-Little things (fleet window broadcast) the message is to long for fast reaction make it short like: align planet I , xyz need shield
WordCloud: Noodlesentence, confusion, unclear, missleading, uninformative

Station Vault Gantry

A reasonably small item (100m3? 1000m3?) that can be combined with a bunch of parts in-station to make a Station Vault or Station Warehouse, for people who live in 0.0 stations that don't have accessible manufacturing slots. Cannot be turned back into the gantry once assembled.

actually i hate to quote myself but tech 3 frigs with the usual subsystems apart from one that lets you fit cruiser sized weapons to it, oh and MISSILES on the caldari one please

Don't introduce more T3 ships, they're impossible to balance amongst each other (as it has turned out) and even more impossible to balance against normal ships. If you want to do something T3, iterate on the current ones.

What NEEDS to be done is lowering optimal range on pulses and lowering the range bonus from scorch, combined with dropping base falloff on AC's (the TC/TE boost was way too good). Apart from that the Cane needs a nerf (drop damage bonus, add 7th turret slot) and the Drake needs a nerf as well (remove mid slot).

More work on bot detection especially macro ratting bots. It was great this year when all those macro miners go banned. Now how about macro ratters? I report and report all these dudes in Venal who blatantly bot 23.5/7 yet never get banned! Same thing with all the big macro anomaly runners in Geminate. It is really disheartening when you play this game the legit way while these dudes cheat 2 win pretty much.

ships direction indicator in tactical overlay... need that one badly

Serious usability issue about avatar movement control

The current way of controling avatars in EVE is quite different from other games, and I have to say that your new way feels wired, unintuitive and doesn't have any real merits. It will become a big problem for WiS as soon as WiS gets actually involved with the game. It is not very obvious now only because that WiS is not a meaningful part of the game and almost no one really use it yet.

--AVATAR CONTROL IN MOST OTHER GAMES:

Independent to camera direction: the key A/D means turn your avatar left/right, while key W/S means move the avatar forward/backward the direction it's facing.

So you can perfectly control your avatar with only your left hand, you can do other stuff with the right hand and you are free to look at anywhere while are walking.

--AVATAR CONTROL IN EVE:

W/S/A/D means move the avatar forward/backward/left/right depending where your camera is facing. So you have only 8 directions to go without moving your camera with the mouse, this means that you have to use both keyboard and mouse to finish the job which usually needs only the keyboard.

Plus you cannot move the camera direction freely when you are moving.

What's worse: because the camera is so close to your avatar, you cann't see where it is going when pressing A/S/D, which means only 1/4 of the keys is really useable.

Some say that you can also use only mouse to move the avatar, but the right hand is almost the only hand involved in playing EVE. Why don't spare it for some other stuffs and left the moving to the idle one?IMAGINE HOW WILL YOU INTERACTIVE WITH OTHER PLAYERS IN THE STATION WHEN YOUR BOTH/RIGHT HAND IS OCCUPIED CONTROLING AVATAR MOVEMENT? And I hate keeping the mouse key pressed down all the time.

--CONCLUSION:

Most other games use their way of avatar control for a reason, there is hardly any real merits of the new way in EVE.

A option to use the 'normal way' of avatar control is badly needed, and it will be a must when CCP try to bring WiS to its full potential again. Being 'intuitive' is also very important if you try to attract newbies to WiS, which the current control is not.

ohsweetjebus THIS!

and another thing

I would like to be able to create a fat toon. Think Mr Creosote on the station promenade, Vladimir Harkonnen going down on a slave boy, Vicki Pollard in local!! I tried making a fat toon, best I could do was create a sort of pregnant look.

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read

Crucible is awesomesauce but fat people need lovin too!

First i would like to mention im playing eve non stop for 3 yrs. Im a walking evewikipedia. Thing i ´do` in eve is mosty pvp, chat with friends and doing director stuffs.

Things that need fixes:

-Black Op overhaul (there is a black op topic on the old forusm from me 11 pages long) Personaly is see best fix is separate bo in 2 classes, 1 bridgy, 1 pvp. Anyhow, jump range need buff with a rule that a bo can jump atleast 1 system at all time. Regional gates are not covered... sytem A----------------10LY--------------system B are inpossible to jump and often camped.

-Electronic attack frigats lack fitting to fit decent e-war on them. They lack speed and hitpoints compared to other T2 frigats. Their scan resolution is lower than some T1 frigats. (need 3 rig slots and more thingy)

-Nos´s are hardly used while they do have great potential now. Neutralisers are the choise more often due their effectiveness vs nos´s. I think nos will be more populair if have more draining power.

-The lachesis and Arazu have as only gallente ship ingame missile hardpoints. This is useless since Gallente is an hybrid and drone race. Ether give them all turret hard point or missile hardpoints or both, a mix is just fail. The arazu and lachesis resist could use a slight buff. The lachesis is and exelent tackler in fleet but dies very quickly due having small buffer or avarage resists. Maybe all combat recons resist should be looked at to let this ship count in fleet battles.

- The amarr faction frigats have realy low dps or with avarge dps fitting problems compared to other faction frigats.

-The minmatar uniform damage needs to be looked at. This is an ability that gives minmatoar more power over other races. Combined with high slot utilities it makes minmatar winmatar. Example neuting hurricane and vagabond. The hurricane preforms better than some T2 hac´s. This needs some looking into.

-The nemisis could use a little fitting boost, it is the worst fittable bomber

-If a player has alot of items in his hangar it can be realy confusing to look for that specific meta level item. An option to toggle on a meta level indicator on items would come in really handy.

-There is currently no indicator execept pressing alt to manualy manouvre into a position that is inline with certain celestials. In example: if u want to set up a mobile bubble behind a gate it is a hassle to get in the right position. Holding alt gives u a bracket that helps u but it is nowhere near perfect.

-Warping itselve from gate to gate is going decently fast but dropping from warp takes often more time than warping itsselve. This affects travel time and makes pvp´ng in nullsec time intensive. Shortening this time would increase travel in null sec and more ships will be blown up. To not affect some high sec professions its maybe something to adjust spacial distortions in null sec on such a way that only in null sec travel speed is affective. Or by following gate to gate trails it creates less spacial drag due your traveling in preset travel path that shortern your warp significaly. This way travel from gate to gate will be faster while gate to belt is normal speed. (thus equal safe while boost travel/roaming) ( make it so it only works when warping within XX range of gate (50?/100?km) chaising gangs getting fun if there is unexpected bubble :P

-Faction appearance in belts has been stealth nerfed, please change them back, faction mods are getting too expensive to fit these days.

-The legion could use a slight bonus to neuting range. It has the normal recon bonus while the proteus & loki has the combat recon bonus.

-Astarte and Eos need some love.

-Imgae auction is terrible. Min bid is always 10%, if u have a 5b item min bid is 500m, It overshoots the entire pricible of auction.

-Auto repeat for DScan at a cetain interval: 2? 5? 7? seconds?