Guys, honestly, the teams and I appreciate the feedback, and we do read it.

There is a recurrent theme in this thread of "change isn't improvement, its change", and to that I would just say look at the evolution of software as a whole - compare Windows 95 to Windows 8, IE to Chrome, etc - things can't be static forever and must evolve, sometimes in a dramatic way. Usability issues are excellent feedback. Simply saying "it's different, I don't want to adjust, give me the old one" is not particularly useful to the team. They have selected the design direction they are going in and it's not just a case of putting in a checkbox that says "use old system X" to cater to those who aren't keen on a slight adjustment to a system.

Please do keep the usability feedback coming though - for instance, the behaviour of using "loot all" and then having an extra cargo window - this is the kind of use issue that can be dealt with.

Interesting analogy . I personally look at it more like the evolution from a Flintstones model of car (totally functional, pretty basic) to a modern day automobile - there's a ton of bells and whistles on it, you're not sure if you need or want them all (but hey they're free so might as well take them), the only drawback is you need to learn how to drive it!

So I have a philosophical question that I am curious about. Why are so many people intent on interacting with items via the tree view and not via the ships window properly?

We actually implemented double clicking to board ships, so you can open the ships window and board ships by double clicking. This is much faster than dragging them to the station scene?

Finally a big concern that is being raised again and again, is multiple window usage. We are already investigating this and hope that we can fix it in time.

However on a personal note, every time I have to go back from the Unified Inventory to multiple windows, I cringe. We understand the usability concerns raised here, but once people have been given some time to acclimatize themselves, we strongly believe that this will provide the best user experience.

Half of the observations in this thread are valid and should be considered for tweaking.

The other half appear to come from people that either haven't actually used the system, or don't understand how a simple tree view works.

But it's not the same thing!

It's nothing at all like incarna!

This is just slander!

This is just a feature; you may like it or not but comparing it to incarna is absolutely bonkers.

Our intention is to improve the user experience not hamper it.

That's too easy... The little arrows I left on the top left corner of the pane minimize one pane thus reducing the used real estate.


EDIT: And how would that make it any different or improve on the current live inventory system.

Because frankly, the one on TQ is atrocious. We're just so used to using it we're accustomed to it's terribleness. For example, the slight hesitation the entire game has when clicking through stacked/tabbed windows. Or when stacking windows.

A few people have complained that the 'loading' animation is annoying. I have to say it's a lot less annoying than the whole game waiting for a corporate hangar to load.

Anyway, random mumblings. I'm writing a long-form blog post about it as well, but it'll take a while to finishGǪ

Just finished quick test run with newest sisi client.

Good thing is that opening new windows seems to be easier now as shift key is more widely supported. However client wasn't still willing to keep the "extra" windows open and where I left them between undock/dock sessions.

Also double clicking hangar background should always open active ships cargo bay to new window (if not open already). Current behaviour where this function opens/closes same window than neocom's inventory button feels really wrong (however if you feel really strongly against this, please at least make it so, that above happens when you're holding shift key down when double clicking the background).

Also you might want to go to esc menu, set easy theme selection, put desert theme on and look how the inventory window becomes pretty unusable. Open market window next to it and you'll figure what is wrong with the colours you're using.

Anyway just quick test run - didn't really invest much time to this now as apparently you already got new version coming.