I will say that the fact that a player such as yourself is compelled to use TWO screens for ONE character/account DOES somewhat support the opinion that maybe the UI is - in fact - a bit too cluttered, and that making existing UI icons bigger and more intrusive doesn't help matters. Can we agree on that at least?

I'm not having this problem at all, but I'm playing on two very large monitors....

Try with just 1

1 19" CRT monitor ...
or 1 14-15" laptop screen


i know *gasp* someone that doesnt have a 5000" plasma flatscreen to play games on. your absolutely right, they shouldn't be allowed to play "YOUR" eve online.

Seriously, I understand. But tracking matters - DPS doesn't mean crap if you can't hit anything with it. Horrid game design? Yes, because there is no possible way that fitting different kinds of guns to your ship should ever be necessary, even though it's completely possible and now, perhaps, a tactical priority. Just because it "isn't done" doesn't mean it isn't done.

But I have plenty of clue what I'm talking about. See, I do it plenty when running missions, and do it successfully. You're making silly assumptions about me that you don't actually know, so that's the first sign of elitism that I'm getting from you. But the problem is, you're facing a new situation, one you don't like, but that's your problem, and I'm too busy finishing the missions you're complaining about to care.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that people that do things differently to you don't know what they're talking about - I'm over here figuring out how to fight the new AI, while you're in here whining on the forums about them. So who's the newb now?

The answer is: You.

See, the difference between the two of us is - I understand that brain-dead game-design decisions do not require brain-dead workarounds.

I'll simply switch to a HAM Legion/Tengu and mission happily ever after, without having to worry about fitting small guns on a battleship. It's not a perfect solution with the TDs these days, but absolutely viable.

That I can work around stupid game design does not make it any less stupid, however. Nor does it make fitting small guns on a BS a good idea.
Curiously, this circumstance also serves to illustrate how horrible these mechanics really are. If you fit enough unbonused small guns on a BS to break the tank of Arch Gistii XYZ, your DPS is compromised so far that it is no longer a viable alternative to my Strategic Cruiser. It isn't a viable alternative because everyone who uses the Strategic Cruisers will make a ton more ISK than you do. If you want to compete with them (and I heard EVE is about competition), then you will have to switch to a Strategic Cruiser, too. Which renders every ship but Strategic Cruisers completely useless for missioning.

Mind you, I'm sure these issues will be fixed in due time, and so on and so forth, but your entire premise is just not viable in any way whatsoever.

How do you move the damage notifications?

How do you move the damage notifications?

1. Why letting everyone place bounties on everyone? After some time we will have everyone marked as "Wanted" because it is cheap thing to be done and because there are a lot of jerks (check Jita). Limit bounty placing to people that have kill rights or somehow suffered from actions of person that is getting price on his/her head.

The recruitment UI has some really undesirable changes in Retribution. Features that my recruitment staff and I used daily have been removed:

• Double clicking on an application does nothing (it used to open the application)


• Right click menu on an application has had functions stripped (used to be able to start a conversation or send a message from that menu)

What's the point of telling me that an application is unprocessed? There's a reason why it's in the queue. It's not like they stick around after they're processed anyway.

In the same way, why are the portraits larger now? It only makes for an even larger window, more scrolling to get to the application you need, and leaves lots of unnecessary blank space throughout the window. (There also appears to be a bug currently where the needlessly-large portraits don't even load in the Recruitment window.)

The filter box in the corner is a nice addition though, thanks for that.

having bounties alone don't make anyone a legal target!

At least for the market guys this is hell.
LE: How many people need to complain?

New targets are swanky, but is there any chance they can slim down a bit? Especially the vertical spacing between them. Used to be able to fit 5 targets vertically in the old position, now its only 3.

... how about train in pvp and goto pvp area noob

Yes because wouldn't it be awesome if the ai were so stupid it couldn't figure out that getting to a player who is keeping his distance and isn't firing a round at them might be less prudent than destroying the drones that are firing at them.

Wouldn't it be great if it rained candy apples and everything was made of chocolate and raspberries?

You think the ai is hard? Go fight some PvP, that outta shake you up a bit.

What patch notes don't tell you:

EXPANSION ABOUT NERFS, Because Missiles were ok for 6 years now but now they're overpowered.

a.) PVE

1. All missile ships are now obsolete (very low range and decreased damage)
2. All Drone ships are now obsolete due to new AI (your drones get targeted as soon as you deploy them)
3. All ships that rely on drones for protection against frigates are obsolete
4. NPC's tracking disruptor now affects optimal range and falloff instead of just optimal range, which makes 800mm's minmatar ships obsolete in pve.
5. All npc complexes and ark missions are now insanely hard to do, you can't use drones
6. There are only few ships that can save you from mission if you loose all of your drones and get stuck (scrambled with npc agression).
7. New meta 9 - 14 drone modules are obsolete for pve, since ai will always shoot your drones.
8. If you use marauders or other ships for guristas missions you'll get perma jammed, there's nothing you can do since you can't use drones.

b). PVP
1. All Heavy Missile ships are now obsolete
2. Drake is worst battlecruiser for pvp
3. Hurricane got nerfed so it is kinda useless now
4. Tengu now sucks compared to other t-3's
5. Very hard to gank someone ratting in low sec or 0.0 with stealth bombers or frigate since npc's will switch targets

Lol - after a month of peaceful high-sec mining I now have a 1.000,000 isk bounty on my head and a big red "wanted" tag on my char info - apparently because my name begins with 'A'