The inability to deliver multiple jobs at a time is somewhat annoying.

For 200mm Autocannon invention, don't see where to select the T2 BPC to invent, and it is not selected by default. http://i.imgur.com/PK45ssV.png

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It's not clear to me what the purpose of the Big List of Blueprints is. It seems to generate a list containing every single blueprint in my entire inventory. Well, I've got around 1,000 originals and four times that number of copies, organised into neat categories inside small containers. In a lot of UIs a list that large is next to useless without some quite advanced accompanying search and filtering functionality. A tree structure would be better of course.

If you're the UI designer and get upset when people criticise your work, it only means you care about it, so it's all good.



(1)

I can select a blueprint on my hanger floor and bring up the industry UI for it even when I'm not in a station that has an industry facility. After faffing around with all the various options, I get an error popup when I try to start the job. It would be better to get an error before the industry UI appears. I'm torn between this and just not giving the option to perform that action on the blueprint. The former at least allows the player to understand why it's not allowed.

(4)

Again another issue with selecting parameters the software knows a priori cannot be performed. I can use the circular widget to try to submit a job that goes over the maximum allowed time, only to be told this isn't possible after I've clicked submit. The underlying model should have all the information needed to restrict and present the available choices here so I never have to see that error message again. If it doesn't, again, lazy programmer.

(5)

It's not clear to me what the purpose of the Big List of Blueprints is. It seems to generate a list containing every single blueprint in my entire inventory. Well, I've got around 1,000 originals and four times that number of copies, organised into neat categories inside small containers. In a lot of UIs a list that large is next to useless without some quite advanced accompanying search and filtering functionality. A tree structure would be better of course.

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From (5) it's clear that the ability to multi-select a set of blueprints, perhaps all the same, and perform the same action on them with the same properties, would be extremely useful. Starting 10 invention jobs, for example, by selecting 10 BPC but only having to input the details once, would massively reduce the T2 building clickfest that is the current system.

Apologies if any of these things have been covered or if they're on the snagging list. I spent literally 10 minutes last night in there and these are my initial observations. More to follow I'm sure.

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For this, I think its important that users be able to see what the numbers would be for a blueprint activity even if the facility isn't there. I think it should be clearer immediately what activities are supported, though, once you're in the UI. I do get your point, though.

Probably not lazy, just it was a lower priority than the other items on the list.

I agree with the need to organize and disagree with the benefits of a tree view. Other forms of filtering are going to be more critical here as is the ability to reduce the total number of objects you're having to deal with. The change to BPC invention mechanics should help here.

Multi-select would increase the complexity of this screen quite a bit, probably be computationally expensive and potentially quite confusing to the user. I also think it would be better to wait until after the invention and reverse engineering mechanics switch up to see how it changes. Also I shudder to think about doing multi-select across different input or output locations. From my perspective the solution they came up with for speeding up invention by remembering the last thing you did is better than multi-select.

Quintessen wrote:

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I can select a blueprint on my hanger floor and bring up the industry UI for it even when I'm not in a station that has an industry facility. After faffing around with all the various options, I get an error popup when I try to start the job. It would be better to get an error before the industry UI appears. I'm torn between this and just not giving the option to perform that action on the blueprint. The former at least allows the player to understand why it's not allowed.

Also on a more general note since people are bringing it up, one of the things that should come within the next round of updates is what we are dubbing a visualization mode, which will be indicated much more clearly than it currently is.

The idea is that any element that is just for visualization of a "what if" scenario will be red on the UI and can be reset.

The 'Visualization Mode' will allow us to change the installation, then?

Question for people who find the blueprint list too inclusive (large as a result), are the filters at the top insufficient? We are exploring ways of filtering down to BPCs vs BPOs, but currently you could filter down to blueprints within a specific container or location quite easily.

Also on a more general note since people are bringing it up, one of the things that should come within the next round of updates is what we are dubbing a visualization mode, which will be indicated much more clearly than it currently is.

The idea is that any element that is just for visualization of a "what if" scenario will be red on the UI and can be reset. For example for:

Are these numbers right? http://puu.sh/9o28p/7b8635a83f.jpg

If so I am really sad that a major part of my isk making would be practically killed with the run time being quadrupled. I can't imagine with all the changes that the margin is suddenly going to quadruple as well.