EVE New Citizens Q&A

5. When you are focused on something else (like probing for example) you look at the overview less often. It's easy to miss that yellowboxer. Or when you are traveling... It's only a sugesstion. I think it's useful to have such alert, but I'm not going to be forceful about it :)

6. 3D space - manual navigation, you have to be careful and watch out for obstacles as they can put your ship into a halt. Watchlist - when I'm in command of a squad, I always have all squad members in a watchlist, because often I'm flying with new players (just like me or younger) and they don't know yet when to warp out if the fight turns badly for them. Local - I'm looking at it out of habit. Fleet chat - fleet members post links there and messages when they don't have a microphone or they can't use it at the moment (wife/kids sleeping, broken mike etc). Drones - to check their status and decide should I recall some of them and replace with spares (I may not be able to buy/refit new ones during a roam, so it's crucial to keep most of them alive). Tanking and assisting modules - I'm not looking at them, only guns and reps (when I'm short on cap). BTW, I'm not talking about PvP here. In PvP roams I don't need so much information as I'm only executing orders (and I've never been a squad commander then, so I don't know how it would look like if I would be one... I suck too badly in PvP at the moment).

9. Of course. You can't fit a ship you have no skills for. "Remotely" for me is "from another station or space" and this also should not be possible. It's more like "I need to switch 'Foobar Frobnicator I' to 'Foobar Frobnicator II' on few ships" or "I need to build a fit from modules spread across few of my ships" situations. Making each ship active is frustrating when you are in a hurry.

Two short comments that came to my mind:

- There is nothing wrong with complexity, what feels frustrating if things are unnecessary hard.

For example, exploration sounds very cool, but doing it without youtube videos seems to many players like something almost impossible. Even now that I'd say I'm pretty good at it (I scanned down like 50 sites of all kinds from highsec to wormhole space): zooming works often erratic (sometimes it becomes very slow of very fast), clicking on the arrows properly feels often like pixel-hunting. Sometimes the probes zap away on a bad mouse move, where a 'move to last position' or undo button would be helpful.

And combat scanning (directional scan) requires the visual fantasy of a fighter plane pilot (with some exaggeration), as there are almost no visual aids. I have written some more detailed feedback/suggestions on combat scanning here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=59826

To sum up, these minigames should feel fun and have a very smooth and intuitive interface.

- Missions should be about immersion and meaningful, logical stories.

I'm now into the SOE Arc. I somehow feel that Eve was always designed as a PvP game, and sometimes there is a feeling that the whole PvE aspect was a 'must do' task. Doing a mission should feel like reading a book. It should be a logical line of events (Example: Find an exploded ship. Come back. Ah there are now pirates scavenging the ship, go back. Hey, where were these pirates the first time I was sent here? Why did we not meet? Actually, if they came after the explosion to scavenge, why should I care and kill them? Does the agent suggest that it's strange that they appeared there so fast after the explosion? But slow enough not to meet me? Maybe you see what I mean here.)

Just a few more words and the sense that 'care' was given to make the missions meaningful would imporve the experience immensely.