Issues, Workarounds & Localization

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When will the Windows problem be solved?

Must say, I'm pretty tired of chasing my windows around the screen because they wont stay where I want them

And are there a way to disable this annoying "auto sort my stuff" thingie?
Every time I rename a container in my hangar it automatically sort my items. When I rename a ship it auto sort my ships and things and every time I jump to another system it auto sort my cargohold.. This is annoying but the windows position are more annoying..

Another parsing bug found.



..when trying online a POS module when you don't have enough CPU / PG.

I have a possible workaround for that windows dissapeaing.

I have had it happen to me a couple times. (if it is the same bug that is)

I managed to sort it without rebooting the client by bringing up task manager and right clicking the eve process then selecting "switch to".

Popped up without a problem. done this and worked 5/5 times so far.

(I understand the fix is coming, but this can help people in the mean time)

Confirmed, made living in POS impossible for my group. We can no longer fit our pvp ships and actually almost lost a fleet because we could not respond in time for re-fits. A min is quick as this sometimes locks up clients for 5 mins or more. Capitals seem to take much longer than smaller ships as well. Triage carrier refit took 15 mins a few days ago.

completely unacceptable response times.

Refitting guns (8) on BS took 30 mins.

Also offline glitch for modules does the same at random and launched ships from pos hangers leave all modules offline. (this is not because other players used a ship - tested and no one has access to array but 1 person)

please fix this soon CCP, you are costing me more POS fuel that is already over taxed to online more hangers since we can't refit in a timely manner.

Hello CCP,

#1
Starting from Crucible you've started to download updates using your own loader, which you're placing into the TEMP folder. Every time it is a new sub-folder created.
So people, who are using firewalls, have to create separate rules every time for every loader.
Isn't it sucks?

Previously you were using svhost, so that was one single rule every time.

So, why won't you use EVE folder all the time instead?
I though Eve Loader belongs to the game and not to Windows temp files

Can this issue somehow to be fixed?
Best would be to use the loader which will be always run from Eve folder


#2
Today's patch, after placing Loader into TEMP folder it's tried to do changes to registry.
Why?

Thanks

Posting this here for some feedback from other users. Also reported in 123051.

Since a couple of weeks, both on TQ and on Singularity I have the following issues with the game client. All of these seem to involve (activation) timers of some sort.

1. Capacitor charge on the UI (circular display) (either by mouse-over or "show absolute values" option) is in disagreement with the alert messages when attempting to use e.g., a repair module - which state that there is not enough charge available. At times the UI shows at least 3x the amount that the repper needs for a repair cycle (reported earlier as 122604). Very awkward when active tanking ...

2. Timers on the modules no longer start at the 6 o´clock starting point of the module button, but gradually shift clockwise. Hard to tell for certain but the cycle times of the modules and the timer visuals seem to be different too i.e., module cycle time and activation timer duration are different (reported earler as 121401).

3. The timer of the ship and probe scanner window is either starting at a wrong starting point (less than full scanning time), which also shifts over time, or is simply no longer visible (im guessing when the shift has pushed it back beyond 0.0 seconds mark)

4. Starting today (Dec 15th) the skill training times in the queue window don´t add up. Even when only one skill is in training, the bar near the top of the queue window shows a different time than the bar near the skill in the list below it. When pausing the queue both times are the same. When pushing the apply button again there is an immediate difference between both timers. Closing the queue window and the character sheet and reopening it shows an increasing difference, running into the hours after a while. The values of the timers do not update in a synchronous fashion either.

For points 1, 2, and 3 I have tried a) clearing the cache, b) using the repair tool (via sisi launcher for sisi, or repair.exe for tq client), c) using all sorts of different video settings in the esc window, d) switching visual timers for the module buttons off and on. e) logging/relogging. Nothing makes a difference. I have not tried a clean re-install.

This nasty problem is common to all alts on the same account, and occurs on both servers. It looks as if the client is pulling time reference points from different resources which are lagged toward each other (as a best guess).

I can't Access the POCO "Jxxxxxx I Planetary Customs Office"

- If I click it one time nothing happens.
- If I click again the office menu opens.
- The Tax indicator is gone
- I can't see my materials that are located in the LP
- I can see them in the Planet view
- the POCO belongs to a neighbor
- we are friends and he says that the Tax should be 4,5% for my Corp
- I made a trial account today. That character can access it and it displays a 4,5% Tax
- multiple restarts or the clearing of the cache doesn't help
- last time this happened the owner of the POCO adjusted the tax to 10% and after I did a restart of EVE I had access again.
- he then changed it back and I still had access


[Edit]
Problem solved:
- Setting the Corp standing with the slider to 2.0 or any number that is not -10,-5,0,5,10 will bug the POCOs
- Instead of the "Tax 17%" or the "Access Denied" it will display "Please declare all hazardous substances or items of value."

6+7:
Well - it looks like windows currently (re-) set themselfes when docking and undocking - they always shuffle up.

Wouldn't it be much easier if windows just saved their preferences when being closed and reuse those settings if windows are popped up again?!
No size-recalculation/optimization just close-save/open-load and everyone is happy with their windows in position.

You really got a cool grafics engine - so why ruin it with a shi**y window handling?

n: ESC
The ESC-key is widely known to simply reset you current action like: drag&drop, close the current dialog etc.
Could we have a setting which makes the ESC-key simply behave like expected?

n+1 Localization
Only god knows why every Mission Header, Anomaly Name etc. needs to be translated.
Could we have a setting which makes it possible to simply keep widely known headers and names english?!
(Or at least have them in brackets/braces/whatever)
I'm native german speaker and I honestly switched to english localization cause it turned out my corpmates were starting to talk about things I just could not follow anymore. Example: Forsaken/Forlon Hub ... the german translation "verlassen" works for both.
For an international game with players of any kind of country, there really should be no need to localize even things like "bantha poodo".

Thank you.

EVE is becoming, from Internet Spaceships game to Resize - your - windows game.
After that fail patch that needed resizing windows after each dock and undock, now the crucible patch did reset all the windows. I had to resize them all, in all my accounts and all my characters, just to find out that the consequential crucible update did reset them again. Again, I resized them all.

Now, I realize that an important feature - the one that each container, POS, corp hangar etc. had its size remembered, is not available any more.

And now I have to resize the containers/pos hangars, labs, ship bays etc. each time I open them.

I guess, game developers at CCP think that ppl play an internet spacegame, just because their insatiable desire to resize windows is not satisfied enough by their operating system.

Or perhaps eight bytes of memory per container is too much? What, a thousand containers per player, multiplied by half a million players, is four gigabytes. I'll donate you a usb-stick, a 8-GB one, to plan ahead for all future needs.
[edit] That was stupid of me. Of course local storage is sufficient.

To be serious:

Stop ruining our game shortcuts. It's taken from our precious time for pew-pew.