Freighdee Katt
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
195
   |
Posted - 2013.06.10 21:43:00 -
[1] - Quote
CCP Ytterbium wrote:
- Remove the ability to set Certificates as public
- Offer the ability to drag and drop individual Certificates, or a whole Certificate profile from a character into any kind of text input field (conversation channels or EVE mails for instance GÇô this already is possible for individual Certificates from the planner)
- Offer means to compare Certificates with a particular individual that give you permission with your own
- For bragging rights, display unlocked Certificates publicly on all character show info, but donGÇÖt mention to which fields they apply GÇô for instance, running a show info on character A would list this pilot has 53 Certificates to Elite, 24 to Standard, but do not allow me to know their names or related skills.
Back to the actual topic of this thread . . .
Item 1 would not cause much real pain, but it's in there now, so might as well leave it. If it takes away code you no longer have to maintain, sure, then lose it.
Item 2 sounds nice, but unlikely to generate a whole lot of love. If it's easy, sure, do it.
Item 3 sounds useful on paper, but it's not going to help much unless it does something really neat like also showing a skill plan to bridge the gap between the toons compared. If that skill plan was copy-pastable in some standard text format (i.e., a format that EveMon would accept), then it could possibly the great. Otherwise, if it only drills down to the cert level, it's fairly useless.
Item 4 sounds somewhat more useless than just making certs publicly viewable, which is already pretty useless. If someone already did it, then whatever. Otherwise, what's the point? With the exception of characters who have been idle for most of their lifetimes, I could tell almost as much about a character just by looking at his or her age (in other words, very little). If you do add this, just make it so we can CHOOSE whether to expose it or not. A lot of the recent new ideas are neat, but they'd be a whole lot neater if you remembered to include an OFF button with them.
As far as "what information we worry about exposing," the answer, as always, is "all of it." Any of this information that we can select to hide or reveal should remain hideable if we want to hide it. Even if you add new options for exposing it, the option to not expose it should remain. |