PC l0adletter
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Posted - 2011.03.05 23:34:00 -
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I think this qualifies as an extremely minor yet useful change:
When I'm running an industry job, and click "pick installation", the Range DDLB always defaults to "current blueprint", while the Type DDLB seems to remember my last choice.
Suggested extremely, extremely minor change: make the Range DDLB remember my last choice like the Type DDLB does.
This will save me 1 click in a truly stupid 10 click 3 dialog window interface, and will make me 10% less annoyed at how terrible and torturous this interface is.
Bonus suggested infintesimally less extremely minor change: remove useless choices from this particular dialog window.
Under Type, in addition to Corporation and Public, there is Personal and Alliance. There is no such thing as either of these. There are public slots that are alliance-only, but they don't show up under Alliance, you have to filter them with the checkbox with Public selected. There are no personal slots of any kind.
Under Range, current blueprint choice seems not to do anything unless the current blueprint is in a station/outpost. Further, since your ability to run remote jobs is theoretically conditional on your Scientific Networking skill, and you can run (some) jobs on blueprints in station from labs in POSes, corp POS labs *are* within range of the current blueprint *BUT* they don't show up. If you fixed this option to show slots in range, you could actually just leave it as the default and make it not an option (why would you let people try to run the job somewhere else in the region where it's impossible to run?)
The Location DDLB doesn't even make any sense. Does anyone ever use this? One of the options is "My Ship" Can we run jobs from our ships? Have we ever been able to? Can I run a copy job from an assembly array? Can I run a build job from a mobile lab? In the perhaps not-unlikely event that you either don't play your own game, or you don't deal with industry, the answers to all of these rhetorical questions is NO. Please delete this DDLB, it makes my head hurt.
This is just a list of very stupid and extremely fixable problems with ONE OF THE THREE dialog boxes that I have to click thru to run a SINGLE JOB. (Actually, if I queue up the job on a line that is in use, I get a 4th dialog box saying "Are you sure?" but this dialog doesn't appear if I select the assembly line with double-clicking, only if I click it once and then hit the "use this line" button. What is the rationale for this behavior? Am I more likely to mis-click when selecting a line and hitting a button than when double-clicking a line? Don't I have to click thru two more dialog boxes to confirm running the job, anyway? My head hurts just thinking about it).
I have an account with three toons, each of which has 10 build and 10 labs lots and used to do lots of science/industry stuff. It was always kind of a pain, but for a while it was new (to me) and interesting and I like optimizing and feeling like I'm solving complex puzzles. I will no longer be paying to keep this account subbed, because now that I've made a little isk, it's just not worth the misery of queueing up tens of identical invention jobs one at a time, batching up builds, etc.
I would definitely change my mind if you fixed the S&I UI so I could batch-queue things. Yes, it would be less profitable. I don't care. The current UI is sadistic, and I'm done playing with it. It has been unchanged in the three-ish years I've been playing. I realize that such a change is not trivial, but seeing as how it's related to minor, trivial changes, I thought it bore mentioning.
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