There's been some good ideas in F&I and one or two really comprehensive ones. Do a search.... and on the old forums?



The overview is the most important UI element in the game - its also the crapest - and it takes up most space. There are so many things wrong with it, its hard to know where to start, but CCP's approach is generally to go at something comprehensively - the risk is that in doing the odd tweak they won't touch it again for years.

Much more should be graphical.

We should not be limited to one (for example I could have a single column celestial view, next to my detailed PVP view)

Tabs are far too annoying, and unintuitive to set up (with consequences for getting it wrong).

It is the epitome of spreadsheets in space.

Configurable buttons column for common actions appropriate for each object (linked to tab settings), you should never need to right click. Take cans - what do I ever do with them - approach and open. so my cans setting should have those two buttons in the button column. Other people might want warp-to and orbit for cans too.

EWAR doesn't live in a proper column, so you can't move it to the front, and there is a risk it gets pushed out of view if your not careful.

Colour icons, user definable icons - I want to be able to identify classes of ship easily - I want to use icon X for interceptors and icon Y for logi. A simple pattern match against ship type to set the icon, or the default ones for no matches.

A single interface should cover scan/d-scan (with a range slider as a filter), the controls should be in a collapseable panel (like your filters) and results merge with the normal ones in the main table with colouring or some other indicator of where it came from.

Bookmarks.....

Tactical overlay should link in and provide more (velocity vectors, ability to show multiple modules ranges, follow my overview tabs settings), colouring.

My main look and feel wish would be to draw it on space without a window - a title bar is pointless, so are the spreadsheet lines, so is the visible window frame. When transparent it should really be transparent - I need to have it full height in case lots of stuff pops up, but when lots of stuff isn't there it takes up half my screen looking fugly.

Tabs are really fugly

Angular velocity to 8 significant figures? really? ever see the last one change by itself? Why can't I have a visual speed bar from zero to 'fast' for the velocities (I need to be able to set the definition of 'max', and I'd like it to change colour according to my thresholds - be handy to have a visual cue when something is racing at me at 4000m/s and see when something comes into tracking range without breaking my eyes every time)

Columns are always filled in even though data for that column might be pointless - e.g. type for spaceships is handy, the type column for stargates - well, err I can see the icon thanks! This adds to the spreadsheet feel and clutters up the display.

Option to collapse alliance/corp into one item

Threshhold values for colour/blink highlighting - someone approaching rapidly, someoneone within my guns tracking (as above), at warp distance, at gun distance .... everything visual + detail for when you need the detail.

Columns should go away completely when there is nothing in them - say tags - why do i even have a tags column visible when there are no tags set can't it just work this out and hide the column completely?

And now your filter suggestion too :-)

1000 papercuts ..... ? more like a billion. Needs a complete redesign

Colour icons, user definable icons - I want to be able to identify classes of ship easily - I want to use icon X for interceptors and icon Y for logi. A simple pattern match against ship type to set the icon, or the default ones for no matches.

Bookmarks.....

My main look and feel wish would be to draw it on space without a window - a title bar is pointless, so are the spreadsheet lines, so is the visible window frame. When transparent it should really be transparent - I need to have it full height in case lots of stuff pops up, but when lots of stuff isn't there it takes up half my screen looking fugly.

Agree, the overview at the moment has a lot of functionality but the usability is terrible.

In addition to streamlining the overview interface, EVE should come with good presets for new players that are reasonable defaults for Mining/Travel/PvP/PvE.