Jaqel Broadside
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Posted - 2010.12.18 13:35:00 -
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Personally I have NEVER EVER liked Microsofts menu formats.
I avoid the Microsoft menu like the plague.
They are unwieldy, hard to control and lack a clear and human friendly approach of finding and using what you want.
For example: if by chance you click on the wrong item you end up having to go down x levels of the menu by positioning/hovering/hoping you can keep your mouse in the right position all the time - horrible. Much like the horrid Eve Map,, those pop out menus suck.
Given a large amount of information a search facility like the market search for example is very nice - something you could also "monitor" to find out what your customers are actually struggling to find in Eve. Noobs especially.
The biggest and best change you can make is to MAKE THE GODDAMNED TEXT READABLE and don't use pop menus - especially if they overlap other information.
The bar for training is pointless as time is the key factor, extending the training queue would actually help your customers - the bar is irrelevant. If you really want a simple change then display the current training queue length in HH:MM, not any individual skill.
Window management would be nice - to actually have windows cycle into the background/disappear if no change has been made in the last x mins - maybe reducing to an icon when inactive.
I notice the calender function was not updated on several occasions with patches and releases - please take your own content more seriously.
How about changing the chat windows altogether ? For an MMO the chat you can actually have in Eve is quite frankly very poor - the ability to find new friends and like minded people just simply does not exist.
How about setting up self named "Icons" - for example "PvP" icon would setup ur neocom to get rid of all non essential windows, remove brackets, setup ur overview and your ship module icons, group weapons/or not activate key book marks in the overview and open intelligence windows etc,,, "PvE" a different set,, "Recruitment" another set,, "Chat" another set,, "Buy", "Sell", "Contracts", "Explore", "Combat Scan", "Mine" (Currently useless gameplay) etc
If the net result is for other more important reasons like fixing the game then please carry on - but given CCPs history I fail to see this being the case, I just hope you will prove me wrong and this isnt just another in a long line of lame avoidance of the truth.
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