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Keith Eaton wrote:

My apologies for not having taken the time to read all of the nearly 1,700 posts on this and the feedback thread, but I have read a great many of them without seeing any mention of a very real issue with the new unified inventory system (and no, this is not another "I hate the new system because I don't like having to learn a new way to navigate through my inventory" rant):

Under the previous system, when one logged on and opened the corp hangar (for example), he could see all of the hangar division tabs more-or-less instantaneously. Then, when he opened one of the divisions for the first time since logging on, he might have to wait a relatively brief time while the items in that one hangar division were loaded, but after that they remained loaded across session changes for the duration of the log-in, so that the contents of that division were almost instantly accessible at any time after they had been initially loaded. Moreover, the system didn't load the contents of a particular hangar division until the first time that particular division was accessed, so there was no delay caused by waiting for items which were not of immediate interest to load.

Under the new system, however, when one opens the inventory for the first time after any session change, one must first wait while every ship in his ship hangar and every item in his items hangar is loaded; subsequent to this delay, if he then needs to access any item in the corp hangar, he must further wait while every single item in all seven hangar divisions are loaded; and on top of this, if he has the role (i.e., is the CEO, a Director, or a Security Officer) and the need to view the contents of a member's hangar, he must wait still longer while all of the items in all of the members' hangars are loaded--and he must suffer this wait after each and every session change.

Just based on my own experience of having a number of ships and quite a few items in my items hangar, merely accessing those two sections of my inventory is requiring a wait of approximately twenty to thirty seconds every time I dock; furthermore, accessing any of the considerable number of BPOs, BPCs, minerals, and various other necessary stuff in the corp hangar is requiring an additional wait of approximately fifty to sixty seconds every time I dock. This is an unacceptable level of performance.

If the wait time to initially load the inventory cannot be reduced, can the items at least be cached across session changes so as to prevent having to repeatedly suffer this approximately sixty- to ninety-second wait after every session change?