EVE General Discussion

Give one Huge thing to EVE itself:
Give us WiS.

There is an odd bug on the scanning screen where the probe status text (that you can click on to center on a specific probe) can get lost if the probes are too close to a celestial. The lists of all the celestials will come up, along with the probe statuses, and when you click on a blank area of the screen to get the celestial list to drop the probes are bare.

It would be really cool if I could click on a signal (red, yellow, or green dot) and center the display on the signal (like I can center the display on a probe by clicking its status).


Now that the new Tier 3 battlecruisers are out I'd like to see the force command ships get some love. The absolution, in addition to it's current Command Ship bonuses, could use a 5% optimal range bonus.

I'd fly the Damnation but a tech 1 frigate can do more damage. I know the role of the ship is to provide fleet bonuses, but geez!

Why is cloaking considered an offensive ability when flying a tech 3 cruiser?

I hardly use the default "keep at" ranges. Allow me to add my own ranges to replace the default ones and let me save those settings for my individual ships.

The ability to add bookmarks with placeholders to context menus.

so I can have, for a module or ship
http://www.somewebsite.com/manufacturecosts.php?typeid=[typeid]

Which, when used, opens up the browser to that website, replacing [typeid] with the type id of the module.

or something for a character, for a corporation intel site, that used that character id to share notes and such.

Available anywhere you can right click and get a context menu for that type of object.

What I would like, in the spirit of the new T2 ship builder logos is for it to say on the side of my Macki/Hulk/Orca in big black Babylon Industrial 2 font (or any other industrial font): ORE.

Yes. A little thing. A very little thing.

Enable the saving of EVE settings (other than graphics options which is very specific for different computers) to the EVE server.

I'm sure many of the players access EVE from more than 1 computer - At home, at work, at friend's house, on a separate laptop when travelling, etc.

The one frustration I had with EVE ever since I started playing in 2006 is that there is not saving of the settings on the server.

That led to me manually backing up and copying the settings every where I go, which is tedious.

EVE client is already a very huge thing to lug around in a portable way. Why can't settings be portable too - without players actually carrying it physically with him/her?

A simple client-side block list which can be modified, copied and deleted by players, without any size limitations.

One little thing i would like to see is the following:

The addition of the broadcast symbols (need shield, need armor ...) to the watchlist is very nice, but at this point not really usable. If a player does not clear his own broadcasts by broadcasting something senseless (like "in position"), the symbols never go away. so there is no way of telling how old they are without going through the broadcast history, which makes the whole feature kind of useless. To change that, the following additions:

1. Clear the watchlist symbols when the broadcast histroy is cleared in the fleet window (there is a button for that).
2. give the watchlist a dedicated button to clear all the symbols, maybe more than one to clear specific groups like logi requests, align and warp commands ...
3. add a (configurable) timer symbol in addition to the broadcasts. Like a little circle that empties or a little bar. The length of the timer should be configurable. After timeout, the timer and the symbol are cleared. This would give the age of the symbols at one look and clear them automatically after a time. The timers should be configurable for groups (logi, align/warp, ...)

This additions would save pilots depending on those information a lot of time for looking up the stuff in the broadcast history, which can be cluttered for large fleets/move very fast. You were able to see the important broadcasts of your watchlist at one look and how old they are. You would see the timers renewed when the broadcast is repeated, giving more usability to the watchlist.

Maybe the watchlist could also be improved with the ability to put some buttons into each line (some people may not want them, others will crave for them). Like a "lock target" button for logis. Also, the options of the broadcasts in the history should be available via right click on the symbol, like seeing the align command from the fc in the watchlist and using rightclick in the watchlist on the symbol to do so.

In this way, the watchlist could become for fleet members what the overview is now for enemys, the control center of all your decisions. Right now it is the fleet window and the broadcast history, which are not optimal for that.

Hi,

This might infuriate some people, but i have a more conservative view on changes.

-please keep the game complex. Eve is one of the most complex game iv'e played, and it's fun that way. keep it complex, don't fall for making it easier to get more subscribers and more money. We love playing a game that requires you to know what you're doing. If you add new stuff, make it harder stuff, like C7 WH or impossibles incursions. We love challenges. Even if we complain a lot. Keep the game hard by adding harder endgame stuff, not making the game harder.

- On the same idea, don't change steath detection, don't nerf ecm. my personal feeling is that people dont use enough cap drains and ecm and non-dps modules or ships. support roles are fun ! they add to the complexity of the game, please keep them worthwhile.

- BlackOps : never used one, but they don't look useful enough. they look like they have an awesome role, but it's not used enough.

- null sec local : having a wh style local in nullsec might be overkill, but having a Local blocking unit kinda like the SBU could be an interesting mechanic. You go in a system, drop a beacon , scrams local (for a while or until destroyed). Blackops could do that ?

- just keep the game complex and make sure you don't add stuff that dumbs it down.

Compare tool needs a easier access point.
Would be be better if the remove fuction could be fuction with delete and rubber bad select.