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Keilas
Raata Invicti
Undivided
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Posted - 2010.01.06 07:10:00 -
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Greets to all.
Proposal: Inclusion of an option to disable Avatars / Portraits within Chat Channel participant listing.
Why: Currently, players are able to choose between Zero, Small and Large portraits in chat channels.
Players can also choose to display no participant listing.
Working with dozens of open windows or low resolution displays, one aims to cram as much relevant information into any given window.
Currently, the largest element in any chat window is the participant list, and it can't be reduced or re-sized, effectively forcing a minimum window size.
The option to disable the portraits and simply display the names of participants (and relevant Corporation / Standings icons) will alleviate this.
Benefits: Less clutter, enables smaller participant listings, fewer requests on TQ for portraits / avatars upon clicking on a channel participants name.
Useful for rapidly changing and popular channels (the Help channel, anyone?) and particularly for finding specific individuals within said channel.
Detriments: Coding / UI team time allocation, obviously. Makes Local Chat somewhat easier to use as an intel tool.
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Please feel free to add suggestions / comments, but if this has already been raised (although I haven't found something similar), do let me know.
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Jared Ulfsuun
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Posted - 2010.01.06 12:10:00 -
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Herschel Yamamoto
Agent-Orange
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Posted - 2010.01.06 19:36:00 -
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Supporting this.
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Bagehi
Association of Commonwealth Enterprises
Gentlemen's Club
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Posted - 2010.01.06 20:06:00 -
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Fairly confident that there is a setting to only pull portraits when you click on a character (as all portraits are blank for me unless I click on someone). I seem to recall finding out about this once upon a time, before a large fleet fight, in the pre-fight "turn everything off" speech.
Found it...
Esc
"General Settings"
"General"
x "Generate character picture when clicked"
Fix Local |
No Mauk'Ob
Murientor Tribe
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Posted - 2010.01.06 20:57:00 -
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 Originally by: Bagehi
Fairly confident that there is a setting to only pull portraits when you click on a character (as all portraits are blank for me unless I click on someone). I seem to recall finding out about this once upon a time, before a large fleet fight, in the pre-fight "turn everything off" speech.
Found it...
Esc
"General Settings"
"General"
x "Generate character picture when clicked"
I believe the OP was also looking to reduce the real-estate used in the participant list. even if you do not click to get the portrait a portrait sized amount of space with the No-Portrait graphic is shown making the participant list longer than needed.
I believe the request is for an option (as there is in the chat window itself) to not show any sort of graphic and just have a list of names and appropriate badges.
I support this idea
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Captain No Mauk'Ob
Murientor Tribe Navy 1st MCW
MURIE is Recruiting! |
Bagehi
Association of Commonwealth Enterprises
Gentlemen's Club
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Posted - 2010.01.06 21:33:00 -
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Ah, yes. That would be nice for local and large fleets. Really could care less what the person's portrait looks like.
Fix Local |
Keilas
Raata Invicti
Undivided
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Posted - 2010.01.07 01:23:00 -
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Of course, the question arises how much attention or priority minor suggestions get. 
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Keilas
Raata Invicti
Undivided
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Posted - 2010.01.20 05:16:00 -
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Hoping to get some more attention to this - minor improvements are still improvements. =)
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Farinet
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Posted - 2010.01.20 10:22:00 -
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Pasus Nauran
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Posted - 2010.01.22 20:46:00 -
[10]
I've been wanting something like this since starting the game. In corp channel I don't need to see the portraits of my corpmates, and in local I don't care what people look like. Besides, with the way my UI is setup I can now only see 3 with portraits enabled anyways.
Supported.
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McFly
C0LDFIRE
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Posted - 2010.01.22 21:54:00 -
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Edited by: McFly on 22/01/2010 21:54:02
supporting, @ 1920x1200 I still need moar screen real estate. Anything to reduce the screen space taken up by various parts of the UI is good for me. I know it isn't a lot of space, but I prefer to have multiple sets of chat windows on screen, local, corp/alliance/fleet, friends/intel/etc. Would be nice to knock 32+32+32 pixels off of that with the removal of the portraits.
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Seth Ruin
Ominous Corp
Cult of War
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Posted - 2010.01.22 21:58:00 -
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I've wanted this for quite some time as well. Supported 
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Praesus Lecti
Senex Legio
Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2010.01.22 22:24:00 -
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Edited by: Praesus Lecti on 22/01/2010 22:24:40
Originally by: Bagehi
Fairly confident that there is a setting to only pull portraits when you click on a character (as all portraits are blank for me unless I click on someone). I seem to recall finding out about this once upon a time, before a large fleet fight, in the pre-fight "turn everything off" speech.
Found it...
Esc
"General Settings"
"General"
x "Generate character picture when clicked"
Even when that option is not selected the game will still load portraits if you show info on a ship with a pilot in it.
What someone looks like in this game is wholly irrelevant and having the option to never see a portrait or having that stupid wasted space showing a ! on a UI which is already the least efficient in it's use of space would be nice.
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EdwardNardella
Capital Construction Research
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Posted - 2010.01.23 16:06:00 -
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I want this, I would be able to see much more information and may even have that section of the chat window open in every chan all the time instead of never!
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Nykali
Cortex Technologies
Beanbag Alliance
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Posted - 2010.02.01 02:08:00 -
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Extra support!
Not just for a smaller Local, but especially for public / intel channels.
Surely it presents less load on the server, too!
-- Nykali Kama |
IcarusNardella
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Posted - 2010.02.01 05:13:00 -
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I would really really like this! Make things much easier and make channel lists usable!
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AndrewNardella
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Posted - 2010.02.28 05:13:00 -
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I would also like to see this, showing all portraits can be redundant if you are like me and all your alts look the same :P
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Jita Bloodtear
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Posted - 2010.04.26 20:00:00 -
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Definitely want this. Also turning off the auto-load of character portrait when you Show Info on them. In a mildly stressed environment, showing info on someone will blank out your screen and take a while to recover from. We've come to believe it's because it's DLing the portrait information. If we can exclude this it would be most beneficial
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Lykouleon
Trust Doesn't Rust
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2010.04.26 20:13:00 -
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Edited by: Lykouleon on 26/04/2010 20:13:09
No one in their right mind would want to load my character portrait anyway 
Quote:
CCP Mindstar > Sorry - I've completely messed all that up. lets try again
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Thansoli
THE DISC
AAA Citizens
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Posted - 2010.04.26 21:50:00 -
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It's always bothered me that I can turn portraits off in the actual communication window, but not in the member list. This issue is one of my biggest pet peeves about the current UI, and is connected (albeit loosely) to UI peeve #2: loading times for portraits (both Player and Agent avatars).
SUPPORTED
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Creavas
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Posted - 2010.04.26 21:59:00 -
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Full support!
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Mynxee
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2010.04.27 00:11:00 -
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One Million Percent YES!
Life In Low Sec |
Kadoes Khan
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Posted - 2010.04.27 04:46:00 -
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Supported
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Marked Ugler
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Posted - 2010.04.27 16:45:00 -
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Edited by: Marked Ugler on 27/04/2010 16:45:59
OMFG, someone with moar brains with CCP!
OW, wait, it's not so uncommon for someone to put more thought into proposal then CCP ui designers do into there job  !
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Cinori Aluben
Gladiators of Rage
Systematic-Chaos
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Posted - 2010.04.28 04:49:00 -
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SUPPORTED.
Keilas, I've also discussed this with others in game as a requested item. Ours was a slight tweak on yours, and they are actually both complementary. Ours not only asks for ability to remove portraits from population List, and resize accordingly, but also for somewhat the opposite: to be able to resize a chat window such that ONLY the portraits are showing, for the purpose of monitoring portraits in local for Reds or War Targets. You can have that full-screen high local list, without having it take up so much horizontal space.
Having ability to choose either chat-only or portrait-only makes the chat window more refined and efficient for your specific use, while freeing up that ever-so valuable screen real estate.
These types of little things are exactly what my campaign for CSM5 is all about, to "Fix the Little Things First!" Hone, tighten, improve, polish... make more efficient the current gameplay as it is, before implementing more huge features that can only continue to complicate the gameplay. Even just 5 little things like this combine to create a synergy that vastly improves your daily EVE experience.
If you value giving priority to little fixes like this, vote for Cinori Aluben. My priority is that CCP make these "Little Things" a priority. As such small items wouldn't require heavy coding time, devoting dev time to them is solely a matter of prioritization, which the CSM will have an active part in now.
Cinori Aluben CSM5 2010Fix the Little Things First!
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Cinori Aluben -- CSM 2010!!
"Fix the Little Things First!"
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Thandormi
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Posted - 2010.05.05 19:50:00 -
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Originally by: Cinori Aluben
...to be able to resize a chat window such that ONLY the portraits are showing, for the purpose of monitoring portraits in local for Reds or War Targets. You can have that full-screen high local list, without having it take up so much horizontal space...
I doubt CCP would go for that particular suggestion. I believe they've said before they don't want to make Local any MORE of an intel tool then it already is. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't object to that change, but I doubt they'd go for it. Combined with the removal of portraits, it would be an amazing intel tool! But I'd settle for just removing the portraits.
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Menellaix
The Arrow Project
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2010.07.12 19:36:00 -
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Holy bump batman!
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Krans Hopeson
Hulkageddon Orphanage
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Posted - 2010.07.13 10:08:00 -
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Originally by: Menellaix
Holy bump batman!
Bump was much deserved. Supporting this!
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qo'Qojhea
Black Serpent Technologies
R.A.G.E
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Posted - 2010.07.13 12:13:00 -
[29]
supported
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Iltarus Almondis
Minmatar Ship Construction Services
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2010.07.13 18:49:00 -
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do want so bad.
/signed
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