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CCP Fallout	Posted - 2011.06.21 11:50:00 - [1] CCP Punkturis' newest dev blog tells us all about the new agent finder tool! Read it here. Fallout Associate Community Manager CCP Hf, EVE Online Contact us


CCP Spitfire C C P C C P Alliance	Posted - 2011.06.21 12:28:00 - [2] Originally by: J Constantine Is this going in today aswell? Yes. Spitfire Community Representative CCP Hf, EVE Online


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 12:43:00 - [3] Originally by: Shepard Book Edited by: Shepard Book on 21/06/2011 12:19:37 Looking at the image of agents, it does not seem as though you can click on the individual agent to see if you are able to use it. I see the link for the system but that is all. Is that correct? If the agent is not available to you, the portrait and the text is faded out


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 12:44:00 - [4] Originally by: Salpun The System search could use a type in search block. You can start typing in the name of the system when you have systems box selected.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 12:57:00 - [5] Originally by: Mena Arzi Is this available through the normal UI? When I tried it on the test server I had to waste 20-30 seconds doing a slow walk to the couch every time I wanted to use this feature :( You can access it from the agents tab in the station services and in the agents tab of the p&p window.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 13:16:00 - [6] Here is the link to the agent finder on EVElopedia.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 13:34:00 - [7] Originally by: Shepard Book Originally by: CCP Punkturis Originally by: Shepard Book Edited by: Shepard Book on 21/06/2011 12:19:37 Looking at the image of agents, it does not seem as though you can click on the individual agent to see if you are able to use it. I see the link for the system but that is all. Is that correct? If the agent is not available to you, the portrait and the text is faded out Thank you! Do you know if locator agents can be searched for with the tool yet? They are in there, but you can't filter for them specially.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 13:44:00 - [8] Originally by: Salpun Any plans to add them We'll see, lets get this out first and then maybe iterate if needed


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 15:14:00 - [9] Originally by: Chaos Incarnate gonna quote myself from the GD thread: Originally by: Chaos Incarnate It'd be nice to be able to filter by region, constellation, number of jumps from current location, or by sovholder. The solar system search by itself is a bit...obtuse. There should be a special filter for R&D agents allowing you to filter them by field. Also i noticed that the 'security' only filters to highsec, lowsec, and nullsec; it'd be nice if there was a more advanced filter allowing you to set the exact system security. The agent level buttons at the top should be a bit bigger and easier to click. there should also be a filter for locator agents as well thank you for this input


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 15:43:00 - [10] I want to thank you all for your positive feedback. Making you happy makes me very happy


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 18:07:00 - [11] Originally by: Machon Danichus I'm sure it's been said already but why not add a region filter as well? Or 'within x jumps' filter? Sometimes you're looking for an agent within a particular favourite area. You don't have to select a system. So if you just leave it on any, then you'll get the agents closest to you first in the results.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.21 21:59:00 - [12] Originally by: Internet White Knight Edited by: Internet White Knight on 21/06/2011 21:11:10 Originally by: Blog I think the animation is pretty cool, we were able to do that easily because of CarbonUI! Oh for f's sake, animation? Nice to look at for three seconds, and after that it'll only ever slow a search down. There's an option to turn it off, right? I was waiting for someone to comment on that part of my blog


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.22 16:50:00 - [13] Originally by: Aquana Abyss Good work. "filtered by the faction that has the best standings towards you" This can be changed? I for example have great minmatar and good gallente standings but am in gallente space and its listing agents rather far away all the time. This is just what happens when you first open the window. You can change it in the filter options.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.24 00:03:00 - [14] Originally by: Nikuno So the only reason for destroying the agent variety was to allow the agent finder to function for the release of CG? I don't know how you got that impression but it's the other way round. We were able to make a simple agent finder because we simplified the agents system.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.24 10:31:00 - [15] Originally by: DeMichael Crimson Hi CCP Punkturis, any chance of getting an answer to this? I'm not the correct person to answer this but I'll direct your question to the right people


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.24 15:13:00 - [16] Originally by: Krys Skar Very nice! The only thing missing is the ability to limit the search to a region. Right now we only have the choice between the whole universe or one solar system! Krys I've been taking some of the feedback here and made improvements on the agent finder. One of it being Region filter (no locator agents filtering yet, sorry). Will be deployed soon


CCP Dropbear	Posted - 2011.06.24 17:07:00 - [17] Originally by: DeMichael Crimson Was this about the the old Tutorial_Agents who gave the mission 'The Endless Battle'? I was informed they've been removed from the game? That's 15 agents for each of the 4 main Factions. Total = 60 agents. They were a good source for gaining positive Faction standing along with repairing negative Faction standing, even if it was just a small amount. They played a major part when first working the Faction Standing Repair Plan. Any chance of giving those agents a new title (Political Liaison ?) and paying them more isk to come back out of retirement? If not, are there any replacement agents available that give the same mission? Greetings from Team NoobLube. So, we removed the standings gains from the initial NPE (formerly known as the Crash Course) to avoid people raising standings too easily. The NPE is now repeatable, you see. It wasn't before, so back then, it was okay to give out one-time mission rewards like standings. In the new one, repetable missions with standings rewards would be exploitable so we had to take them out for the time being. We're continuously working on the NPE these days, so how things are now won't be how they remain forever. One thing we'd like to do is add the standings gain back in, but we can't do that with a repeatable NPE unless we make the reward a one-time thing some other way. The best candidate is by having tutorials (which currently can only give goodies in the form of items) reward standings. In any case, we're aware of this, and will be looking to improve it.


CCP Dropbear	Posted - 2011.06.24 17:13:00 - [18] Also, just by the way... With the redesign of the Agent Finder, one category got left out ("Roleplaying"). We'll be looking at possibly reintroducing it again, if the UI allows. Anyways, just wanted those who care to know that it wasn't abandoned entirely and we're still looking at improvements.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.26 17:23:00 - [19] Originally by: Xander Hunt The new agent finder, even its current form, is terrific. However, I do dislike the images, and much would rather see a grid-style view like pretty much every other aspect of the game which deals with raw data. 6/5 stars on this part of the game, AND your services in this thread! I wanted to make it less spreadsheets-in-space-right-clicky and more "here's what you need to see, just click it" Also, thank you, I try my best to help


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.27 14:35:00 - [20] Originally by: Xander Hunt Originally by: CCP Punkturis I wanted to make it less spreadsheets-in-space-right-clicky and more "here's what you need to see, just click it" Also, thank you, I try my best to help Thing is I don't need to see their faces. That's meaningless to me. Sorting by distance is great though. Two things I'd like to suggest in regards to usability (Since this is what you're aiming for I guess); 1- Increase the clickable area around the numbers representing the levels. Its a bit too small. I know the arrow can be dragged, but my mind works on "I want level 4. I'll click 4). 2- Have the option to show "All Levels" as going down from 4 to 1 to see a valid agent is awkward. 2.a- Allow the sorting by purely distance, and another option to sort by level then distance. In next update you'll see a better version of the slider We left out "All levels" because of performance issues. If you have all filters set to "Any" and "All levels", there are just way too many agents to fetch.


CCP Punkturis	Posted - 2011.06.28 12:52:00 - [21] Originally by: Darthmund DaMonsta Originally by: CCP Punkturis I've been taking some of the feedback here and made improvements on the agent finder. One of it being Region filter (no locator agents filtering yet, sorry). Will be deployed soon I would also like to see the locator agents more easily, but obviously doesnt come in todays patch... When is soon? The "deployed soon" was regarding the region filter (and other stuff in today's patch).

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