Debir Achen
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2012.02.10 22:23:00 -
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CCP Arrow wrote:We are working on a Unified Inventory system for Crucible 1.5 where all items, ships and other inventories are grouped together into one window. This will remove the need to add Ships and Items to the Neocom when docked and introduce a new Unified Inventory option that will work like other regular icons in the Neocom. Please do not do this. Ships are different. I like it that ships are treated differently in the hangar, and wish other views would do the same thing. If anything, I wish that the inventory was more fragmented (eg blueprints, ammo, modules, other), not less.
Also, this module and missile renaming is a bad idea. Adding keywords to identify types - scourge kinetic heavy missiles, 1MN catalyzed cold gas arcjet thrusters (or even arcjet microwarpdrive) - would have been great. But instead we've got a homogenising change that actually takes away information:
(1) before, it used to be very easy to tell which missiles I wanted: Scourge was medium, wrath was large, they were obviously different missiles. Now, I regularly find myself trying to load Trauma into my drake, only to discover that it's actually a Trauma cruise missile, not a trauma heavy missile.
The microwarpdrives and afterburners are even worse. Rather than the meta items having distinctive names, they are now all much the same, except with a "Limited", "Upgraded" or "Experimental" prefix. I challenge anyone to put those names in the correct meta order just from their English meanings.
(2) This may be counter-intuitive, but once one is familiar, it's easier to deal with unique names rather than lists of qualifiers. This is what "branding" is; associating things with names. In "Scourge (kinetic heavy missile)", the keyword is "Scourge" - you can drop the qualifier. In "Trauma kinetic heavy missile", you're now interested in "kinetic heavy", because Trauma is no longer a distinctive term, even though its the most prominent.
TL;DR: go back to the old names, except:
(1) add a keyword to each name (such as '1MN' or 'kinetic').
(2) add a S/M/L size marker to the propulsion mod icons, just as for guns. |