Player Features and Ideas Discussion

A few things that would be useful

ISSUE: It wastes so much space
FIX: Move the capacity bar up into the layout icon bar, filter can go up there as well or where index currently is now. Remove the index label. Or capacity down the bottom and filter up the top

Also, as it has been suggested no doubt. Remove different settings for different environment for wrecks, in space cargo hold etc. Allow the minimization of the value bar. Make the value bar one line instead of two.

ISSUE: Placement of item hanger icon, at the moment in my UI item hanger looks to be part of my ship hangar.
FIX: PUSH it left more

ISSUE: POS guns
FIX: Give them a sub tree, and have a settings option so players can hide it all together. Same goes for everything else that can be inside a pos.

ISSUE: Drag and drop. It changes to highlighted folder way to fast. And really changing to it doesn't help anyway.
FIX: Up to you.

ISSUE: something
FIX: Could we get highlight of objects within usable range? wrecks sma's cha's etc.

Issue: New UI system

Fix: If ur set on having this, allow players the option to use the old system.

This new system really is not a "One size fits all" U know, old dogs new tricks and it really does not work for all styles of game play. A seperate ship hanger is also a plus, without multiple clicks each and every time u enter a station.

Add Assets and Corporation assets to it. Under a main heading controlled by a persons settings of course.

Something to fix on the inventory system...

PROBLEM : The filter at the top right corner of the window.
: Text is erased when switching from items / ships / cargo / drone bay .

FIX : Don't erase the text when switching between them, make it auto search as you switch.
: Or you could add a refresh button next to it and it will populate the item / ship area as you need it.

Issue: Looting Wrecks in Space. I open a wreck or container and it opens the UI Monster Window. When I hit the "Loot All" button the focus of the UI swaps back to the ship cargo hold view, then it Stays Open.

Solution: Opening a container or wreck should open up in a single simple (Non-Monster UI) window and hitting the Loot All Button should then just loot and close said extra window. This is a separate function and window from the UI Monster Window. If I want/need the UI Monster Window open I'll hit the Open Cargo button.

Reasoning - When I do Cleanup on PVE missions I don't need extra windows on my screen. Currently I have to have the UI Monster Window positioned at or near the center of my screen so I can get to the "Loot All" button quickly.

I just did an Extravaganza mission, zomg get this Monster Window out of my screen!!
open wreck, loot all, close Monster UI window
open wreck, loot all, close Monster UI window
open wreck, loot all, close Monster UI window
open wreck, loot all, close Monster UI window

Close, Close! CLOSE! Begone Clutter!!

Please forgive my rage-face... I'll go chew on the walls for a while or something.

ISSUE: When managing many ships in one station, the list on the left is an inefficient two-dimensional way to represent your selection of ships, and must be scrolled around.

FIX: Do not hide/remove your current ship in the items view section of the UI, so you can efficiently see all your ships when you have your ship hangar node selected.


ISSUE: Moving stuff between ships, containers, etc.. requires a lot of extra clicking in the new UI, and constant scrolling of the list on the left, and the alternative is taking up your entire screen with different inventory windows.

FIX: Re-enable dragging items to window tabs, so you can stack the UI windows you need to move items between and efficiently move items by dragging to the tabs.

Honestly I do not know how to make this better without giving us back our old IU..
The new inventory is just horrible..
Looting, mining everything is so hard, confusing and cluttered that I almost stoped playing..

In fact I have been skipping looting a lot and station spinned instead.

I need to click 1 container and have that open in one window, then click ship cargo and have that open in a seperate window..

Trying to operate a rorqual inside a pos with 10 corp hangars and lots of other modules are hopless with everything opening in the same window.. and the inventory list so long you have to scroll up and down all day.

It also covers so much of the screen because of the list of items on the left.

Often you must scroll and if you hold mous over a corp hangar for a few sec it changes view to that.. so I have to scroll up and down again to find my ship hangar again.

the new inventory works ok in station but not in space.


FIX
Seperate ship hangar, corp hangar and ship maint arrrays.. More or less give us back the old style

Took me a bit to "Get used to the new UI". I do understand how some don't and rage about it. But i like it...mostly. It has a few bugs and could be tweaked some.

Issue: Every time i jump the inventory toggles. If it was open it closes, if it is closed it opens. If i want to look at my inventory I want to hit the button. If i was looking at something, you forced me to stop looking at it.

Fix: Stop it from "sensing" what it thinks i want and stay closed or stay open.


Issue: The "My filters" section needs to stay closed ALL the time unless i want to use it. and 9/10 times it takes me 2 clicks to get it to shrink. If i want to filter for something let me hit 1 button. Stop forcing me to look at something i don't want all the time.

Fix: coding it to stay closed unless opened


Issue: I do mining ops with my Girlfriend in her Mammoth, She has 9 Giant secure cans in her hold to haul more. It is nice they appear on the list so she can open the jet can we use and drag n drop ore into each can. She gets frustrated when she drops ore on a full can and has to click and try another can repeatedly 'till she finds an empty one.

Fix: To the left of the Canister icon in the list add a small blue slider that shows the capacity of the cans. Like the blue bar on top of the UI now. or turn the ICON blue or red if it is full. Or as you hover over it with your mouse the highlight of the can changes to show capacity.

I also run a Noctis for salvaging, with 10 targets being pulled in and a lot of wrecks i need to open, i like how each wreck appears in the list and i can keep tapping LOOT ALL and then all the wrecks cycle and disappear from the list.

First off, thanks for making living in pos's bearable again. But there's still work to be done.

My ideas are:

1) Like many have mentioned before, the inventories need to remember their state. If someone likes to have many windows, they can separate them by shift+click. The next time that inventory is opened, it should remember it's settings (position, item icons, etc) and stay separate. This would allow many of those who don't want a unified inventory to separate and shape their inventory windows the way they want. In essence, allowing them to have "the old inventory" if they wish. Things like wrecks should be a group that remembers the setting for all wrecks.

2) Allow users to make their own groups in the tree. Just like with corp bm's let us create and name the groups and let us determine what goes where. (those who live in pos's can group all the things they don't want to see in one "folder")

3) Allow users to determine the order of appearance just like with the watch list. If we can drag and order the appearance of the folders in the tree, we can then order them the way we want. This would allow us to put stuff we rarely use in a folder at the bottom, and things we always use toward the top (ie pos guns in a folder at the bottom, and SMA's and CHA's in their own folders near the top.)

CCP had good intentions in wanting to unify and simplify our inventory to make things easier. However by doing so they also took away a lot of customization.

It takes forever to load now.

Everytime I go to reship during a fight I have to wait for the entire inventory to load.

Separate the Items and Ships!