The complete lack of CCP responces in this thread after the first day the blog came out is dissappointing and gives me an eerie feeling that team Game of Drones have "completed their task and moved on", and that the new inventory system will be forced upon us with it's flaws, regardless of what we think.


PS, There is a monument in Amarr that's not wrecked yet

Yes, new problems will arise once it goes live and everyone's edge-cases get thrown into the mix, but the current iteration doesn't even stand up to five minutes of casual, every-day use.

Yea... latest couple comments about this feature you can found from this thread. Apparently they are (at least pretending to) doing some user testing now, which I personally find kind of funny. With all the feedback they have it should give quite clear indication what went wrong and clear knowledge that such testing should have been done long before any code was written.

Yea... latest couple comments about this feature you can found from this thread. Apparently they are (at least pretending to) doing some user testing now, which I personally find kind of funny. With all the feedback they have it should give quite clear indication what went wrong and clear knowledge that such testing should have been done long before any code was written.

So this is the 'Official' dev blog thread where they ask for suggestions and the last thread it seems they have the inclination to reply.

The funny part is I have just re-read the dev blog and almost the very first line says 'What do all EVE players have in common? They need to use Inventory windows. A lot of them... '

And then they go on to change everything to one single window!

The funny part is I have just re-read the dev blog and almost the very first line says 'What do all EVE players have in common? They need to use Inventory windows. A lot of them... '

And then they go on to change everything to one single window!

Now if you want to see something really funny, check this post out from end of january.

I really need to get some DEV feedback on this. I am watching a freight train hurtling down the tracks into a populated area, and the conductor appears to be asleep, slumped over on the accelerator...

It is too BIG. I always have my ships cargohold open no matter what and the new window is too big.

Pls give us an minimalist version also. One that doesn't show volume, ISK and other stuff. Just a rly tiny frame inventory.

Like windows media player when you switch it to minimal view :D

You can split off windows.

- snip - We needto use the old function for easy transfer (shift+click) to treepanel, but pls tell to us if we need to use the old functions for easy transfer between multiple windows, why need the new one ? - snip -

Ok so just a few minutes ago whilst thinking about this I had something of a brainwave, which I think would alleviate many of my personal and indeed other peoples issues with usability: Allow us to have inventory windows lock when pinned! Now this totally sounds like the "lock when pinned" option we already have that prevents moving/resizing windows but that's not what I mean, rather that when pinned inventory windows should lock to showing whatever they are showing at that time (unless explicitely modified by the player), irrespective of whatever other operations you carry out with opening/closing other inventory windows.

How would this end up working? Well say like myself and others you like to always (or nearly always) have active ship cargo open, you would shift-click to get this into its own window, set it up where you wanted and pin it. Now regardless of whatever else you do this window would persist showing active ship cargo, you could operate other inventory windows freely without impacting that window, or as happens now the client trying to use it for the next open-inventory event. Of course this would work with as many inventory windows as required, so we could setup a whole bunch showing whichever inventory location we wanted (ie corp hangers, fuel/ore bays) with whichever filter(s) applied that we wanted and they'd persist in that state untill either the user closed or modified them to show something else.

In particular this would be awesome in station as well as 'fixing' the cargohold/loot can issue (I imagine it being possible to have a window setup that shows 'cargoinspace' type windows only that would open/display nearby wrecks/cans in its tree as appropriate), as you could have multiple inventories pinned open with diferent filters applied meaning you could not only reproduce current functionality whereby everytime you dock ship hangar/station items hangar are already open, but you could also have many more windows filtered to each show say hardeners/ammo/BPOs/minerals only, giving you quick access to what you frequently want without having to manually apply filters each time, and with all those 'core' inventory windows pinned+locked you can freely open/close and modify a single inventory window to 'work' with.

Now just have to wonder how hard/not it would be to implement this behaviour...

Tiger's Spirit,

Compare, Windows Explorer
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/254/45014286.jpg/
and Old UI
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/233/oldui.jpg/

Total Commander
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/86023596.jpg/
and New UI
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/109/newuiu.jpg/

And seems you don't understand the meaning of "multi-". It means "many". That is why Total Commander is absolutely NOT multi-windowed. If devs add split-view option to the new UI, it will be exactly like Total Commander (without plugins). But even now it's much closer to TC than to WinExplorer.

p.s. I'd say, new UI is like TC with one half in tree mode.