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As some people above have no doubt mentioned (i've not read the whole thread apologies if this is a dupe..) Titan Bridging is a nightmare.. An idea to improve that and perhaps improve the gameplay/realism of Eve as follows.


Make Mass have an impact on Jumping time.. Whether it's a jump bridge, a stargate or a titan/blops bridge. Add a timer to it that says for every X amount of mass add N milliseconds per LY of the Jump multiplied by the amount of other people using the same gate/bridge at the same time....

This way. when you do a titan bridge not everyone will hit jump at the same time. The system would be throwing small ships in first (battlecruisers logi's etc) with the Battleships following a few seconds later.. It woujld help us as the players have a better experience when bridging and help your servers cope by staggering the arrival of a load of new players on a new node..

For regular stargate travel, it will make a little more exciting if you are in a BS being chased by small ships and it takes you 2 seconds longer to travel from one constellation to the next and even longer from one region to the next...

You could maybe even then allow (non super) capital ships to use stargates in the future safe in the knowledge that it would probably take 10 minutes to get from one system to another that way and the more they jump through, the longer it will take... Obviously concord would deny them access to high sec . Whilst it would make it possible to get caps into a jammed system in nullsec you'd at least (with good intel) know they were coming and be able to defend...!

Ah, that reminds me - more UI elements which present lists should have the little "filter" box like containers have.

- EVE Mail, let the little filter box quickly search subject lines & sender name, so it allows you to quickly filter down to just EVE mails from a particular person.

- People & Places, let me quickly filter contacts based on corp name, alliance name or player name. Same thing with agents. Bookmarks would need to be filterable based on either region / constellation / system or bookmark name.

- Science & Industry - Jobs List - quick filter on either the system, character, or item being produced name.

- S&I - Blueprints / Corp Blueprints - quick filter on the blueprint name

Biggest annoyance for me: the default market "Details" tab view has incorrect column sorting. It should sort in the same way as the Group tab effectively does when selecting a sell order for its immediate buy order: by price, then by number of jumps, so that the lowest-priced item in the same station shows up first, even if there's an even lower-priced item ten jumps away. Buy orders would ideally be sorted by applicability, then by price, descending, but since there's not currently an applicability column (that is, a column that has a 1 if the buy order matches your current station and a 0 if it does not), simply by price would be an improvement over the current default.

Regardless, the idea is that, in most circumstances, the top order in each half of the details screen should be the one to which you are likely to sell or from which you are likely to buy--PoLA.

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When you forget your probes somewhere and when you finally realize 7 of your probes are missing you go back to the previous system you were in, try to reconnect, nothing happens because you're actually in the wrong system, then the reconnect button becomes greyed out and you can't get your probes back.

Edit: Also, for the love of god fix not being able to warp to things that are over 150km away. Bookmarks off gates for example.

1) http://i.imgur.com/hO0nW.png
2) http://i.imgur.com/Cn6mA.jpg

this is ******* annoying. shatty windows dont have to move, when i pinned them, while minimizing an adjacent one.

edit:
dont want to double post, the other thing is about the shift-key to split stacks.
at station it works fine, but for PI its a little bit buggy.

1) you can see my normal (ger client) PI window. nothing special.
2) i select bacteria while holding the shift key because i want to transfer 1500 to my planet. works fine.
3) i drag the bacteria to the other window, after taking 1500 from the stack. everything is still fine.
4) 1500 bacteria on the planet. everything is ok, but.
5) when im holding shift again and click the biofuels it autoselect the bacteria again. this dont happen at stations, and this didnt happened after the tyrannis patch. this bug came with incarna. i have always to select everything 1-2 times, before holding shift, or this will happen again.

sorry for the picture spam, but its the easiest way (for me) to explain my problems.

I've been trying to think of things that are on your list of issues...


One of my corpmates reports a lot of delay when he closes a chat window out. Up to 1 second or more. Although his computer is somewhere between "Craptop" and "Laptop", it's something to look into for efficiency.

This is a good one

Here's one for you... When calculating a really long autopilot route, it will freeze. That needs to be looked into and stopped from a usability perspective. Allow me to cancel it, and maybe give me a progress bar (it should be pretty predictable to see how far the calculation is - since it's just an n-th to the power of whatever combinations there could be).


Seriously, this is the ONE

To apply to join an Alliance you have to LOAD that WHOLE alliance list and dig through and find the ONE ALLIANCE that you want out of thousands.

Seriously, this is the perfect intersection you're looking at between Performance and Interface that I think your team is supposed to handle. First of all it takes an age to load that Alliance list - and second, you need to go digging through a list of Thousands!

Whatever you choose to do to fix it... it can be many different things, please this is the one thing to fix. It makes no sense and is the kind of thing that leaves a bad taste in your mouth after you apply to an alliance because of the client.

I know this doesn't hit 300,000 users every day, but it's something that you don't forget after you've done it. A few times.


ANOTHER good one

Opening Agent Missions - I think the performance on this could be better. When I talk to an agent I get a big screen that shrinks down and then loads everything. It needs to be a smoother operation - preload it, put a "Fetching data" and then display properly. I don't know why it takes a few seconds to do this, but it can be better for sure.

I like and agree with you on the alliance joining, this is clearly from a time before usability and I can think of a couple ways in which we can handle this better. I see what you mean about the agent convo loading up. Once we have established with UI Design a standard for loading notification we can consider extending it to UI windows such as this.

Have a station vault (or similar) and more than a handful items in it (30 should be enough). Select them. Press the mouse button for the context menu. Wait many (many!) seconds. Context menu finally shows up and includes the sought after "lock" or "unlock" menu items.

And that on a AMD Phenom II X6 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, Win7

Is the context menu running a query to the server for each one of these items whether it is locked, to provide a (to me absolutely unclear) number in the brackets after the lock/unlock menu items?

I'm not sure why ALL the UI has loading issues. It's freakin' 2 freakin' D. 2D computer graphics wer mastered in the 1980's. At least by the rest of the industry. Seriously... it's not an issue of needing "loading notification" it's an issue of the software being bad.

I agree that anything that helps the overview run smoother.

As a PVP Pilot I actually tell myself i'm 1-2km "ahead" of where I'm being told I am, both for reaction time but also because the overview update isn't very accurate in those situations.