GÇó Removed excessive saving of user settings during session change and improved the speed of settings serialization.

Yes we did. I'm glad you like it.

JL: Yeah, exactly. We come from an interesting and fairly unique viewpoint on some of this. Our players usually come up with fantastic ideas. At Fanfest, we were announcing this technology weGÇÖre using called CREST, which is how weGÇÖre actually going to allow our players to read and write [to EVE's server files] through a third-party developer license.

You look at some of the tools that our players make, and theyGÇÖre fantastic. The reason theyGÇÖve made them is because they really should be in the game, and so we shouldnGÇÖt just copy it for copying itGÇÖs sake. We should make sure that [what we make] actually adds a huge amount to the experience of playing EVE. And this is the interesting part of that.

ThereGÇÖs also so much we can do in this game, weGÇÖre never going to get to it in five years or ten years. [We have to ask ourselves], GÇ£Where can we really add value, and where are the areas where our players can do it themselves?GÇ¥ WeGÇÖve had a really interesting discussion over the last few days with the CSM. YouGÇÖve got some high-level players there whoGÇÖre these social hubs that create all of this content with the people in their corporations and alliances. And theyGÇÖre basically telling us that the corporation management engine base is horrifically bad to useGÇöitGÇÖs a nine-year-old piece of kit, really. So theyGÇÖre saying, GÇ£Please, just let us make our own UIs. Please make this data available to us so that we can build our own applications around it.GÇ¥

Same is true of acceleration gates into dead space. its no longer possible to covertly enter an acceleration gate while cloaked. Bug report filed.

This brings to an end dozens of lulzy kills ive had against stabbed speed tanking farmers this month as they orbit a button making bank thinking they are untouchable. Well indeed, now they are.

Yes, people have been ignoring this fiction, because that's what it is GÇö not fact.

Unified Inventory things I want to see fixed :

No 1 : LOOT CANS

These need to be a special 'type' operating a little differently to other inventory windows. I fact, they are already different since they have a 'loot all' button.

When a loot can is opened, have it open in its own window. Never, ever, open it n in a window being used to show some other inventory location.

Let me move it around and resize it where I please and then remember this for next time I open a loot can.

When the loot can is emptied, have the loot can window close completely. Do not switch its contents to show any other inventory location (eg., my cargo hold)

If I open multiple loot cans, open them as tabbed windows on the first.

There are others, but let's try baby steps.

You need to provide an explanation why CCP is WILLFULLY ignoring the user population to roll-back the UI nightmare.

I had been trying to get a good, solid LogServer log of lag when using the Inventory UI, decided to try again this morning after the patch and... the lag is entirely gone. Whatever you did, don't undo it.

Guard / CCP,

Stop putting band-aids on Unified Inventory, just get rid of it ! Or.... makes it an option to use or not use like the gay captains quarters. =)

- would be awful politically wise

One of the hi slots has also been moved from the ship side to the wings. Why did you do that CCP? The new skin will look awesome in anyway even if one hi slot is covering the side of the ship. If you move back the hi slot to where it was and shrink the ship back to at least 100m you will get a frigate that everybody is expecting I think.

At the same time I donGÇÖt want to sound too critical. I think you have done a great job and I really love the game! Keep up the good work! But please listen to what we have said. The wolf is the number one ship! I would be glad if you find out some improvements about the things we have mentioned.

Unified Inventory works fine.

Yes we did. I'm glad you like it.

Why in the blooming hell must CCP force that stupid leper skin look on every T2/navy ship??
Sleipnir looks like garbage now. Not sure what other ships you have managed to spoil with this color scheme yet..

Vaga looks crap now that you shaved it bald..

So I was at the Newcastle meet last night.

CCP Unifex and many of the dev's from the Newcastle office and a couple from Iceland were there and much beer was drunk and tongues were looser than usual. If you've ever been to one of these meets or Fanfest you'll know CCP devs are rather good guys to be out drinking with.

So this will not be a who said what and who about post. There was a free and frank exchange of idea from players and the devs and I'm NOT going to tell tales on people because the last thing I want is the devs thinking they have to keep their mouths shut at the events. If you want all the gossip then make the effort to get to one of the meets.

That said I will give proper Kudos to Unifex as he is the guy that specifically said that Stealth Bombers shouldn't uncloak each other in wing formation and told the dev's to make it so. Cool.

So, onto the rest of the night.

They know they screwed up with the UI. And they are determined to get it fixed and don't care how much dev time it takes away from other things to do so. And I believed them. They have to. They know players are unhappy with it and they have the data to show it, feedback like the forums, petitions, bug reports and feedback from un-subbing players.

The old UI is NOT coming back or being rolled back. It is genuinely impossible to do so as so much other cool stuff in Inferno is built upon it. There was some other stuff mentioned about UI development which for the reasons I've already said I'm not going to repeat here. But I'm now confident that UI will be a suitable replacement for what we had before. It's just a matter of how long it will take.

It is also not an attempt to make botting harder. CCP have for more effective tools for that sort of thing. Nor is it a result of Dust 514's menu structure.

One other thing as well. The Dev's ain't too fond of trolls on these forums and they tend to ignore the 'stop whining' brigade that pop's up on them because a lot of them aren't very helpful. The complaints about features is how they know there is a problem to fix. They just ask they we keep it polite and not get personal. And use the bug report system too. It's also impossible to check on every post on every forum. There just isn't enough hours in the day for that. But they read as much as they can.

Everyone was loving Dust and were making sure the Dev's knew it. E3 was a major success for CCP and word in the industry is that the established 'dinosaurs' in FPS's as someone put it last night are very disturbed about how good it is and that it will be free to play. Long established revenue streams are going to take a kicking as a result of CCP entering the game.

There was also a small presentation with some slides that demonstrated how important us brits are to CCP.

Basically, we're the oldest, most skill pointed, richest and deadliest cross-dressers in EVE.

Oh and google 'Jon Lander'. He was trying to be apologetic as to the top hit but I think he loves it really.

Fixes

Graphics

Improvements have been made to the FPS drop that some players are experiencing, particularly when running multiple clients. We do not consider the problem solved however and are still continuing to investigate.