Very nice! Few suggestions:

The compact mode of the AP is missing the "Jumps to go", which is by far the most important info if you're moving in a fleet! Also, it makes a lot more sence to me to display the destination instead of the next system on the route. You can see the next system in space anyway if you're looking at the overview - yellow stargate! Another option would be to hide const & region in compact mode and simply display next system, destination, jumps to go in one line.

Regarding that awesome wip: http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/64141/1/GOD2.png
Will it be possible to rightclick the celestials in the list and have all the options available which you also have at the space context menu, but w/o going thru all the sub menus to moon x on planet y at z distance?

'Show route path in space' shows the way to the future!

Ummer or how it could look, as a couple of people have also indicated the fact that the stars in the background are 'real' should be made more use of in the future.

Currently the star map, solar system map are very awkward to use and map browser is almost useless. Imagine if on the hud to the left next to the tactical overlay button there was enable map features... Then when enabled all the 'World Map Control Panel' features could be overlaid in space. While in this mode it would be great to be able to zoom out and highlight the solar system view, constellation, region and universe view then back again. Darn even if things like scanner probes could be moved around then it would actually feel like scanning in space or if we could see the directional scanner sweeping through space in the direction we are scanning.

This would actually make using the map a pleasurable experience as well as contributing to the emersion of being in space.

Looking forward to more :)

Regarding that awesome wip: http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/64141/1/GOD2.png
Will it be possible to rightclick the celestials in the list and have all the options available which you also have at the space context menu, but w/o going thru all the sub menus to moon x on planet y at z distance?

Yes, the idea is that once all warpable celestialsand other elements in your solar system are available there you won't need to use the Right-Click to select them and then their options in a sub-level or have them visible in the Overview anymore (you still can, but this method should be better). You will have the ability to use the Right-click option directly on the celestials to perform an action, or use shortcut keys to do the action directly without going into the Right-click at all.

This is the basic idea and the goal would be to make this the most effective and efficient way to navigate to elements in your solar system and allow you to fully customize the view of these elements in the System Info Panel.

As long as you don't go ahead and just remove the right click option that we have atm :), you can do that later if it turns out no one uses the right click in space afterwards for a while

Now if only there would be a check for useable jumpbridges and calculate them into the autopilot if desired.

Would that dumb down Eve too much?

Not yet tested but looks nice. I know people are crying out for new features and overhauls of existing ones. but little things like this (although the behind the scenes work might not have been little) are definatly the things i like!

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No plans to remove anything, just add a new and better way to do it, those that want to keep using Right-click for the same task will be able to do it exactly the same way as before.

That is appreciated, because you guys have already removed enough contextual r-click functionality (replaced with buttons in windows, etc.) to make doing stuff damn annoying / frustrating.

Right-click, considered a bastion of the power user isn't the best way necessarily to do things. It adds context, but context menus can get quickly overloaded.

Right-click, considered a bastion of the power user isn't the best way necessarily to do things. It adds context, but context menus can get quickly overloaded.

Understood. And there are examples in-game where r-click menus have gotten bloated. My thoughts with that quote were targeted at existing r-click menu items that were removed and replaced with obscure buttons, making a given task more burdensome and time consuming to accomplish.

I suggest that the r-click menus be retained when adding new means (buttons, etc) to accomplishing a task. QA testing for both actuators can be accomplished via regression script(s) to ensure both UI elements work, moving forward.

Also, w/in the EVE world, the most basic UI help theme stressed over the years was "when in doubt, right click." This goes well beyond power users and covers most of EVE's subscribers.

If CCP is developing a new UI paradigm, then hopefully it is consistent and more robust than "go find the button / icon" that either does something or invokes a menu where you can do something [the current situation].

We're open to suggestions that might make this easier!