Ariane VoxDei
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Posted - 2012.06.26 11:13:00 -
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Still downloading patch, but going from the notes, there are not tons. There are 4 bulletpoints.
Lets have a look at them.
first one: purely cosmetic (colours/icons). Can help (like discerning between BPO and BPC helps).
second one: minor behaviour change: change to scrollspeed (if you click the up/down widgets). Pointless if you just grab and drag the scrollbar. Still missing the mark.
third one: bugfix to filters. They now remember their state correctly. Correction of error/omission is not change in intended behaviour.
fourth and last one: Clarification. And unfortunately you keep wanting to push ALT-C for inventory, while people for years have used that bind for ship Cargo.
Summing up, for our point of view we got: 1 cosmetic, 1 bugfix, 1 clarification (documentation) and a (tiny) improvement to scrollbar widgets.
What we did NOT get: anything that substantially improves upon the complaints about use and screen realestate.
You are far from done with changing it. We understand that you have some pride/PR/image issues with doing anything that might be construed as "players being right and devs being wrong", but HTFU and do it.
We are not asking for miracles, just a few layout optimizations along with some (shift)(double)click, contextmenu and (key)bind changes/additions, to bring it on par with the old.
And for the the asshats who still think this is a bot/macro complaint thing, you are so very very wrong. If anything, this just piles more pressure on wanting to use 3rdparty software to escape from having to do it the way CCP has degraded it to.
If you have ever used a macro programs for desktop automation (e.g. clicking/hotkeying through menus with a single hotkey press), you will understand.
Lets say you dock and want do the following:
Unload all ore to hangar floor and then undock
Easy peasy, just a simple update needed. Still very much macroable of course.
Or bit more complicated, dock in your noctic, dump cargo to a specific container, 'stack all' in that, and swich to your probe or mission ship, depending on whether you are a ninja/explorer or a missioner.
As simple as the ore example, just a bit longer.
Macroing and bots have nothing to do with the complains about the UI, instead it in fact makes macroing/botting considerably more desirable, due to the UI change feeling like a punishment to the 'honest citizens'.
Do you get what I mean? You know, good lord, any inventor using macroing to do automate the clickhell windows has my blessing and I will most likely not tell on them and feel quite sympathetic to their use of it as long as it is restrained to that part of the game. |