Myriad Blaze
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Posted - 2012.06.14 09:30:00 -
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CCP Goliath wrote:
Your comment about majority is way off. This thread has 113 unique users posting in it. It's called a vocal minority and is very common on forums, and it makes it seem like far more people are angry if you get a 33 page threadnaught going, but the average posts per user in this thread is 4, and 10% of the total posts in it have been made by one user. Approximately 45% of the total posts have been made by the top 10 posters in the thread, of who I am one. Someone trolling our devblog opening is not an indication of "the mood of many players at present". I don't debate that there is a number of people who are disaffected at the moment, but your estimation of their percentage of the player base is grandly overstated.
Usually I donGÇÖt post much on MMO forums about game mechanics, because frankly speaking I donGÇÖt think itGÇÖs worth it GÇô typically it wonGÇÖt change anything anyway. However, the referenced quote above contains a statement by CCP Goliath that seems to insinuate that I (and other people who remain silent) might be happy with the unified inventory just because I didnGÇÖt add my voice to the GÇ£vocal minorityGÇ¥. Well, I am not happy with it. And from what I read on the forums, the ingame rookie help channel and especially the ingame corp channel, I know that many other people arenGÇÖt happy with it either.
IGÇÖm a new player in EVE and started only a few days before Inferno went live. Nevertheless I started early enough to gather initial experience with the old inventory system. From what I know there was nothing wrong it. Actually it worked in many ways much better (for me).
With the unified inventory there are many GÇ£featuresGÇ¥ that are annoying or very annoying. I GÇ£hateGÇ¥ that the inventory stays open, when I loot a wreck in space (this comes close to game breaking for me). When I click on the cargo button in the GÇ£ship UIGÇ¥ I should get the ship inventory. When I click on the inventory button in the GÇ£station UIGÇ¥ I should get the station inventory. Instead I always get what was open when I last closed the inventory and have to click again to get the view I want (annoying). It is extremely annoying to have the same window size for all inventory types. And no, shift clicking to get a temporary new window is not a solution, not even a good workaround. The GÇ£treeGÇ¥ in the unified inventory GÇô IGÇÖm sorry GÇô is simply a bad idea (it might work for the asset window, though). Please consider to use tabs GÇô ideally tabs that can be dragged to open into separate windows and dragged back to form a tab in the main window. And it would be extra nice if these windows remembered predefined size and sort preferences when detached from the main window.
Will the unified inventory make me quit my account? No, I think not. But if I run into other issues I donGÇÖt like, it might become a factor in a decision to leave one day.
M.B.
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