Yon Krum
The Knights Templar
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Posted - 2010.02.26 04:27:00 -
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Edited by: Yon Krum on 26/02/2010 04:28:36
First: win blog. Thank you Greyscale for bringing enough nitty-gritty details before us that we can give you some specific feedback. Please tell the rest of the Tyrannis concept team(s) to do the same!
On to details.
1) On calendar time zones... I see no practical option for displaying on the calendar itself any zone other than GMT/EVE-time. Any other implementation will be greatly confusing by default. You COULD, however, implement a player-configurable option in calendar settings to display an optional second time-zone on the details pane (such as in the empty space below Time and Duration in the mock-up you provide).
2) Calendar should have the option to display events by personal, corp, alliance, roles, all players, and standings--with standings overriding roles. You should make the calendar entry visible to outside entities if standings are chosen as the visibility option, but otherwise have entries not show up publicly.
3) Standings should NOT be reduced to 5 options. This is a step backward, and will limit the usefulness of standings for future expansion. Don't do it! Instead, cut off a decimal point (3.33 -> 3.3), implement an input box next to the slider, and put the shortcut icons below the slider as quick references. Have the icons highlight when the slider is within the range that corresponds to each icon.
For display in the Overview, your plan to make the priority Alliance->Corp->Personal is sound. Making it Wardec->Alliance->Corp->Personal would be even better, as others have pointed out.
One example of why you want finer gradation in standing: if you implement any system that enables price-discrimination for market orders then you will NEED finer standings in order to provide an easy means of determining/setting the variation percent in sell price/buy offer from a base. Implement this idea, btw, we will love you long time!
4) Corp member visibility. I recommend providing a set of privacy options, all of which will default to "private" initially and be configurable at the Persona, Corp, and Alliance level (with precedence in that order). These settings should include "Reveal Corporation Membership"--which would either show your personal employment history, show the corporations member list, or show member corporations in the alliance, respectively. They should also include "Reveal Standings"--which would show your personal, corporate, or alliance standings, respectively.
You should also provide the option--probably on by default--to "opt out" of the social network and not display your personal, corp, or alliance info. It is important in a game as "Meta" as EVE for us to retain information control. More options to control the easy, public display of data is crucial. As you add functionality to EVEGate, please keep this in mind.
5) You are changing the UI for People and Places, and adding a left-hand pane. I hope you will give the left-pane a slider bar (when applicable), and that you will put our "folders" in that left-hand pane! Please tell me you're doing this! (Standard Windows UI for folders/contents, duh.)
These are my major points and comments. In general you're moving in a good direction, and Alliance standings for POS/Stations is a Good Thing indeed!!
(EDIT: Of course corporations and pilots should have the option of restricting POS access to corp members/personal, by dropping it for corp/personal rather than Alliance, still.)
--Krum
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