EVE Search - Winferno is coming

Ranger 1 wrote:

Tippia wrote:

Grath Telkin wrote:

Holy christ that video from Tippia is infuriating, why does he keep closing the tree

Because it's a waste of space and doesn't help me with any of the things I need to do. It only helps me in opening new windows which I shouldn't have to do to begin with. Yes, I can use the tree view to switch inventories and thus have it replace the current tabbed setup I use, but it's a very bloated and cumbersome way of doing that GÇö I have to scroll around to get the inventory I want rather than have immediate access to it.

The tree view is handy in the personal and corp hangar, and would be useful in the corp and personal asset view (which it doesn't support) and S&I interface (which it doesn't support). It serves next to no purpose for small and temporary inventories such as cargo holds and cans.

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that simply clicking on a particular tree marker erases the need to clutter your screen with windows, you don't NEED to have that **** open all over the place like that, its all neatly bundled into one package.

The tree view doesn't let me see multiple locations at the same time. It only lets me click between them, which is the exact opposite of what I want. I have better things to do with my mouse and keyboard than fiddle with the inventory screen GÇö it should just sit there and show me what I want it to show me. So no, I still NEED to have all those windows open, and they're not all over the place GÇö they're neatly bundled in one cornerGÇª which is another thing the new UI doesn't let me do. In fact, it's the new UI that makes the windows appear all over the place rather than neatly bundled.

What you're saying is that it would be a good thing if they combined the overview and the HUD into two different tabs in the same window: it reduces clutter and if you want to see what's around you in space, you can always click to show it; if you want to see how your ship is doing, you can click to show that instead. Because no-one ever wants (or needs) to see both at once, right?

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The filters allow you to go one farther and only see the parts you need most at any one time like, its baffling watching him do that over and over when its just like, leave the tree open and stop screwing around.

No, the filters don't solve any of the problems because it's still only applied to one inventory at a time. If I want to have two or more inventories open to monitor both at the same time I still need multiple windows to do so.

While I understand what you are trying to do and say, I think his point was that often you would insist on dragging from an open window to an open window instead of simply dragging to the tree.

Example: When you dock and are sorting your loot out of your cargo hold. All you need have open is your cargo hold. Filter things however you like and simply drag the items to the appropriate listings in the tree. All of your sorting is done from one window, with far less mouse movement back and forth across your screen than dragging from one window to various other windows. The tree is right next to the items you are working with.

All that extra mouse movement needs to be done because you don't leave the tree open so that you can sort, drag, and drop on the hangers (etc.) listed there. In other words the tree isn't just there to allow you to easily find and open other hangers/containers... it's there to provide one spot (immediately adjacent to where your mouse will be) to drag your items to when sorting.

By insisting on closing it, you remove half of the functionality you would otherwise have. Functionality that would, to a large degree remove the need for the other open windows.