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Chicken Pizza
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Posted - 2011.11.17 20:13:00 -
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Incredible. Now I'd like a formal apology from every one of you European/Russian bastards who says Americans are fat/lazy/untalented/etc. Score one for the American dev team!
But seriously, you guys are fantastical. If I could make love to a dev blog, I'd pick this one. Maybe if I drill a hole in my monitor... |
Chicken Pizza
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Posted - 2011.11.17 20:53:00 -
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Here are my niche suggestions:
1. Allow us to group different types of drones together in the drone window! I don't know just how many people it would affect, but I have had certain situations where that would have saved me a lot of clicking.
2. Could you possibly give us a small feature that might allow us to transfer drone control to another player as long as they have sufficient drone bay capacity to actually recall them? Losing your drones sucks. Having to dock up or have someone abandon some just to get more is a minor annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless.
3. Can you take a quick look at why drones keep dropping your commands just after they pop something? Far too often have I assigned my drones a new target only to see 2-3 of them either go idle after I issue the command if they're on passive, or choose a different target if they're on aggressive. I assume that the problem lies with EvE waiting a certain amount of time after a target is destroyed to issue drones the new default command. Could you decrease that time or remove it altogether? Since you actually play EvE, I pray that one of you is a drone boat fan and shares my pain. I know many others do...
Can you tell I like drone boats?
4. Could you possibly add the ability to pre-activate non-offensive modules while cloaked? Similar to how you can prep your Siege Missile Launchers or Target Painters, could you also allow us to prep, say, a Damage Control or Sensor Booster? Emphasis on the Sensor Booster. I mean like...EXTREME emphasis on the Sensor Booster. And propulsion modules.
This is my wishlist for the incredible Team Papercuts. |
Chicken Pizza
Penumbra Institute
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Posted - 2011.11.17 23:17:00 -
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Klam wrote:So I'm guessing this won't be fixed?! This is a big frown...  Now I'm going to need to manually set look at other targets :( Otherwise I'm just staring at my ship. Currently, I can just hover the mouse over the 1st locked target spot and cycle guns. I get a nice view of the target. When it pops ... Just cycle gun hotkey and watch the next Sansha melt. ...No chance on getting a options toggle for the current operation? You know for those of us using and enjoying it as is?
Team Papercuts seems to be tasked more towards improvements that generally have a practical use and while it has some small merits, it doesn't really serve a practical purpose when you can simply zoom your camera in with both mouse buttons already.
I doubt they'll implement the feature, much like some of my suggestions, because they're for a small niche of players.
I would, however, like for them to respond about my suggestion for fixing the broken drone controls. Giving commands is a serious pain when they keep dropping orders, and it's a very well-known problem amongst the Gallente pilots in particular. |
Chicken Pizza
Penumbra Institute
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Posted - 2011.11.18 05:16:00 -
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Grady Eltoren wrote:3) They were EXCELLENT at customer service - any issues brought up were line item addressed FAST and replied to here with details!!
I brought up 5 incredibly crucial suggestions, all of which got ignored and many after me were responded to instead.
I like these devs, they've done more in 3 weeks(based on importance) than CCP has ever done in half a year during my EvE experience. But I'm slightly irked at getting ignored like that. Seriously, that drone commands problem is a HUGE problem that irritates a lot of people.
INB4 butthurt YES I'm severely butthurt at the moment.
EDIT: See? Someone just complained about it above me. |
Chicken Pizza
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Posted - 2011.11.18 18:29:00 -
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CCP Space Cadet wrote:Chicken Pizza wrote:niche! Sorry Chicken Pizza, Papercuts members are not trying to ignore you, but the team is basically "done" with the list we set out to accomplish. Anything else we do is just trying to make sure that the items on our list are polished, working, and not breaking something else. As for item 3 in your list: Have you tried changing your drone setting, and activating "Focus fire"? I also hot-key the drone command "Engage Target" and keep pushing it until it works. Not the "best" solution but it serves. The other 3 entries are basically new features, and we won't be around to work on them, sorry.
This is saddening indeed. I usually always have focus fire on, actually. I was hoping there may have been some small fix that could have gone into it, as spamming the hotkey is...well, it's a hassle! I can live without the other suggestions I made, but that one is my absolute biggest pet peeve in this entire game. It makes ordering drones around a very slow and tricky process.
Thank you for the response, though. Problem solved or not, that's all I really needed from you in particular. 
Now, to get the other dev teams to practice the same good work ethics that this team practices... |
Chicken Pizza
Penumbra Institute
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Posted - 2011.11.18 18:33:00 -
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CCP Soulblighter wrote:Chicken Pizza wrote:Grady Eltoren wrote:3) They were EXCELLENT at customer service - any issues brought up were line item addressed FAST and replied to here with details!! I brought up 5 incredibly crucial suggestions, all of which got ignored and many after me were responded to instead. I like these devs, they've done more in 3 weeks(based on importance) than CCP has ever done in half a year during my EvE experience. But I'm slightly irked at getting ignored like that. Seriously, that drone commands problem is a HUGE problem that irritates a lot of people. INB4 butthurt YES I'm severely butthurt at the moment. EDIT: See? Someone just complained about it above me. It's not that we don't care or that we're ignoring any of the multitude of new feature requests in this thread. It's that this team just can't address them as we're quite literally out of time. We're finished with any new Eve feature work, and are going back to WoD full time once Crucible ships and it's clear we didn't totally break the game. If you want to ensure they're being accounted for, try posting in this thread. Soundwave and Team BFF should be able to help get that taken care of moving forward. After all.... they were original papercuts team before we stole their thunder. 
Understandable. Sorry, I was tired and grumpy last night and felt slightly neglected because it's such a glaring issue. You guys have done some great work and deserve all the praise you get. |
Chicken Pizza
Penumbra Institute
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Posted - 2011.11.18 18:38:00 -
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CCP Anthelios wrote:Chicken Pizza wrote: me being a grumpy arse We didn't mean to ignore you, but we're past the point in the development cycle where we're allowed to add any new functionality. We're pretty much looking for posts requiring clarification or that have spotted bugs in the things we've already done. Please, please, please make sure that you post your feature requests in the relevant feature request threads so we may have a chance to get to them in the future :) Trust me, you're not being ignored. I have literally read every single post in this thread.
Oh come on, now you're all making me feel bad! XD
I'll go raid the feature threads tonight after work. Sorry for the outburst! |
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