EVE General Discussion

Wow this thread is over 70 pages long now. It raises the question of whether Soundwave is actually reading all of this anymore.

Thank You ASadOldGit, and sorry for adding a dud request soundwave.

The setting is here;
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It most probably has been mentioned before, but it's quite annoying, so I say it again:

Please make the UI windows stop resizing and moving when its not intended!

If I pin a window down, it should not become transparent, but sticky. I then have found a final position and dont want it to be moved accidentally.
Now it frequently happens that I accidentally drop a window onto another one, resizing it and merging the windows. That should not be possible, if a window is in a FIXED state.
It causes me great pain when I have to rearrange windows all the time.

Not to mention that patches now and then (like yesterday) reset the whole UI.
Also, when docking/undocking, windows tend to move around and cause trouble.

And last: there has to be some solution for those windows between which you need to drag items around (cargohold, hangar, fitting-screen, trade window). They usually appear on top of each other so you have to spend a lot of time resizing windows again when you just want to perform a simple action like fitting a certain module.

Downtime notifications need rewording - the shutdown time and time-to-go is obscured in a wall of text.
Either the titlebar, and/or the first line of text (preferably in a different colour) should state clearly the number of minutes to go, a blank line, then the rest of the message.
e.g.

-- Daily Downtime -----------------------
15 minutes until downtime!

The servers will be shut down at
11.00 UTC for 15 minutes.
Make sure your ships are in a
safe place.
_____________________________


-- Emergency Reboot! --------------------
1 minute until downtime!

The hamsters have escaped!
Run for your lives!
Forget your rickety ships - Flee!!!
______________________________

Cease the module "cannot be stacked" dialogue just be intelligent and move the module into the destination space anyway but don't stack it. Its annoying, achieves nothing and gets in the way when moving quantities of modules from place to place. This is now a dinosaur feature i.e. its been around in EVE since...

Haven't checked if it was posted, but could you homogenize the right-click mechanics.

One thing I would really appreciate if you could select "search in contracts" and "view market details" for items in the LP store.

Both the itmes that you can buy there and the required ones as well.

TL;DR: Less fast disappearing text popups, more audio alerts.

One of the things that really frustrates me is when I try to do something and it doesn't work. I can never seem to figure out why. I'm in a mission, combat log is flying by so fast I can't see what the error message was. I can't read it on the screen cause the box disappears so fast.

When I first started playing, I organized my overview to have the information I cared about. I'm real fussy with my UI and screen real-estate. I set up my columns in my overview to take up the entire window region. I had no idea that the left over "gutter" region is where the ECM icons would show up. For the first 6 months of play, I'd try to warp out only to realize someone was scrambling me and I'd lose my ship. I never knew which ship it was. I never knew when it was happening. Little icons not appearing (no gutter space in my overview). Text windows in the middle of my screen that flip so fast, I can't read them. Log windows that scroll with more information than I can possibly read. Little jamming bars at the bottom of my screen that I'd never notice. I'm in a ship that can give audio alerts for shields/armor/hull damage, speak to me as it warps around on autopilot, why can't it speak or beep when I'm being scrammed or jammed?

What I would like is the ability to enable/disable audio alerts for important items that are only currently available through tiny visual elements in the UI.

Since my original post was eaten by the interwebs:

These are just a couple things I would love to see added to the game:

-- New systems
Could even make it a year-long world event. Add new systems, lots of them, everywhere, empire space, lowsec, nullsec, maybe even new W-space. Have pilots explore and stumble upon new systems, and then provide material to build the new stargates between the systems in exchange for LP or something. Connections can be pre-determined but let the pilots help. Let the systems grow organically, going with jumps into the new regions as it is expanded.

This could be pushed to have pilots help build new stations inside the systems. This is how I see it. Pilots equip say a new jump drive that randomly ports you to an adjacent system. Maybe you'll get lucky and you'll jump from a system with a new connection. Once there an 'anchor' can be deployed, letting anyone with this new jump drive jump to that system. The systems start out with 0.0 security (since CONCORD isn't there) but as the gates get built, if the system is to be highsec the security gets set and CONCORD moves in to police the system. Lowsec and nullsec CONCORD could come in to protect the gate construction, then once they're done, they leave. Security affects if they're everywhere or just by the gate during construction.

This will make us feel like we're true explorers. Ambitious but could be very fun.

-- Incarna

Finish Walking in stations. Don't devote the entire company, put like 5 people on it. Build in the corporate offices, allow people to setup games, stores, bars, in spaces. Buying equipment from shops in stations could avoid tax or something to encourage it. While some of the stations will be busy (like Jita) some of the backwater corners would be quiet. This could be combatted by having the shopping area sized according to use. The backwater station could have one or two places for rent for shops or games, and if traffic increases more get added, or if traffic decreases and spaces are vacant, decrease. Would mean trade hubs like Jita could have big malls to walk around in, it isn't an abandoned ghost town on quiet stations.

More customisation options! The new character creator is amazing, but colour choices are lacking. If i wanted to I should be allowed to have pink hair and yellow lips. Skin tones are fine, as we are human, but hair colours, makeup colours, etc. are quite limited. On the same vein, decouple piercings from one another. I shouldn't have to choose between a ring in the left nostril and a nose bridge piercing, for example.

Could also introduce skills and patterns to make clothes to sell. Could build a clothes builder like in All Points Bulletin, only better, allowing us to customise the cut, fit, shape, with limits to keep it within ratings.

Race changes, or even bloodline changes, should be possible, for a fee. If I get podded I get cloned, or if I use a jump clone im in a new body. It shouldn't be impossible to change my bloodline, or even my faction. Charge me a Plex, or X isk, for the service and people will pay.

-- Misc

Fix more of the little quirks, like drones not honouring focus fire all the time. Drones should also prioritise based on their size in aggressive mode properly. I.E. light drones deal with frigs first, then cruisers, etc. etc.

I know that seems like a lot, but a girl can dream, can't she? :)

When right clicking locked target Icons I would like to see the adittion of "Mine" and "Mine Repeatedly" for use with all your Mining Drones in space. Also a shortcut key for the same action would be nice.

If I double click a blueprint it should open the manufacturing window.

Maybe stargates could get out of the overview all together and have thier own hud area??

and...