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Alundil
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.07.08 18:17:00 -
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This would be very bad indeed. PvE content is pretty bad/boring?
A quick way of accessing other information while still within the Eve UI and maintaining some modicum of situational awareness has become a standard facet (I'd argue almost required) of playing Eve.
This, of course, says nothing about the very large number of 3rd Party tools developed by players for players to augment the terrible lack of information presented by various aspects of the EVE Client. Most of these leverage the IGB browser in order to facilitate context aware features (think CCOW in programming for patient context between applications). Mapping tools are just one of many. There are fleet management tools. Mining yield management tools to help track activities and contributions. A plethora of useful things that ease some of the nightmare that is EVE's UI and/or dearth of useful information streams.
CCP removing the IGB is, imo, a pretty big insult to the many 3rd Party Devs that have spent their own time, hard work and money on developing tools that make EVE, at a competitive level, playable.
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Alundil
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.07.08 22:25:00 -
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Jack Miton wrote:To be fair, WH mapping is the ONLY use for the IGB. That isn't true.
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Alundil
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.07.08 22:39:00 -
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Jack Tronic wrote:Sparrow Creature wrote:With the SSO they're proposing you could easily do away with the IGB and have 3rd party sites use SSO for authentication. The only people this would really affect are those that play in true full screen mode. But, I don't really care about those folks. I for one would be ecstatic if they did away with that antiquated terrible browser. You are a idiot. SSO only provides authenication. Guess what? All the tools that depend need IGB, DONT HAVE AUTHENICATION ISSUES NOR DEPEND on the IGB's trusted headers for auth. This is is about ease of use and the additional data which SSO cannot provide.
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Alundil
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
581
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Posted - 2014.07.08 23:42:00 -
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ChYph3r wrote:The WH tears, they are so yummy! Sperg more. Take the pants off of your head. GSF/CFC and other entities utilize igb functionality for your entire paplink system lottery scheme.
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Alundil
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
583
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Posted - 2014.07.09 02:02:00 -
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Kesper North wrote:Don't remove the IGB - or if you do, make sure you're not removing useful functionality with it. The "radar" function of Dotlan alone justifies its existence. You ought to speak to your 'boy' up above as he obviously has no idea.
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Alundil
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.07.09 02:32:00 -
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Here's a link to one of the tools threads where FoxFour talks about this as well.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4785544#post4785544
Not a bad idea to let them know there as well since it might catch the eye of more devs than our poor wormhole section of the forum.
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