Fey Dekill
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.11.07 18:32:42 -
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My 2 cents:
- I think we should be able to modify the icons ourselves... create and exchange our own skin packs... (like in any other modern game).
- I think we should be able to change le look and feel of each and every window In Game, through our own xml files (add columns, remove columns, add fields, remove fields, add locally calculated fields based on available IG variables and personal constants, like (amount * size / mass) or whatever we choose to display locally;
- I think we should be able to share those settings between players;
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Also, I'm quite sad that in my ship's cockpit, there is only one 24'' display available (I mean I spend millions of isks, and all I get is a small screen to give me feedback or interact with my ship, team mates, corps mate, market, industry etc...). Even at the start of the 21st century normal people (not even capsuleers) had 2 or more screens on their desks, connected to a vast array of computers through a network called the Internet. (I have like 5 screens right now on my desk!!).
Wouldn't it be nice to have a front screen with all the flight /pvp /combat data, a screen to the left with the realtime starmap showing a specific type of data like the podding during the last hour, another one on top with the current system starmap that I'm scanning, a screen on the right with the social interaction : local, intel, friends, current mission, and one screen above it with the current market situation in the region next to some other info like industrial stuffs in progress? (or any other way to organize the screens...).
The way I see it, could be for example to have a main process responsible to interact with the server, cache the data, and as many other child process as the user wishes , each displaying whatever data the user wishes (this way you could even decide to look in front on the main forward screen, look right on the screen on the right, look left on the screen on the left... should you choose to and should your hardware allow it).
You know, the model view controler pattern ... ;-)
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I find it just riduculous how we are flying hi tech ships in space and are not even capable of displaying the data we need, the way we want it, on the screen we want...
Note, I don't want to multibox... I'm not interested in having multiple accounts running at the same time (which we can, of course, do, to monitor different type of data on different screens) which is a stupid way of achieving the same result.
(BTW I _did_ find a way to achieve part of all this multi window/screen thing using a dummy virtual large screen, displaying all the data on it, then using a third party software to grab part of that virtual screen and displaying it in different screens... I just find it stupid to have to do this kind of thing... ) |