I'd like to see it optional. Sometimes it's annoying other times not.

/c

I'm the guy who lives under a rock. Wtf are you on about? Link me to something please? Or google it for me.

which part, the fanfest part? or that overview locks when you hold your mouse over it?

Overview locking. I think I saw something about it a while back but what's it do?

:P... oh boy, if you havn't noticed, then you proberly don't use the overview much...
Well, a few patches ago when CCP did some tweaking to the overview, making it update faster and such (there was a dev blog about it) some guy at CCP thought it was an awesome idea to make the overview "lock" so targets stayed at same location on the overview while your mouse was hoovering over it.
This was suppose to be very useful for large fleets when alot of targets were moving around near you and you were trying to select a specific target... heres the stupid thing... you were already able to do this by simply holding down the CTRL key (same you hold down when trying to lock a target)

If you havn't noticed it at all, then try logging into eve... move your mouse over the overview, and you will see a small "lock" icon on the collum that is currently "white"

No.

Works fine now and everytime there is a fix there is a chance for a bug to appear.

I want the old overview back, I thought I'd get used to the new one, but it's so unpredictable, annoying.

You're a little late. There was a survey about the UI changhes not long ago. My answers were "mostly positive".

Yes it should be optional.

I also totally don't get people who say No to this. How is optional worse than rigidly enforced? I personally prefer the old way of holding down a hotkey to freeze it and keep it frozen as long as I need to, instead of current 2 seconds after the mouse stops.

They aren't going to change it back. This is one thing that really pissed me off at CCP and if I get to a fanfest, they are going to get an earful about it

This was a stupid change, and they have avoided all criticism of it, and it barely surprises me that they would say people like it, because its not like there are dozens of posts here complaining about it

I really had a lot of respect for CCP when I first started playing Eve, but this thing left a bad taste in my mouth. I can take the fail launchers and broken game mechanics, but when you start forcing me to mouse to avoid a feature, that's the final straw

Anyway, they don't care if they screw up my game experience.

Last autumn/winter CCP asked for our feedback regarding development and the future of EVE. I suggested that CCP should try to add more customization/options for us to control how we play/set up after our preferences, rather than being forced to do X or Y. CCP Punkturis (or whatever her name is) replied that she disagreed, that options was not usually better in any way. She never stated why tho, just said she disagreed and that was that.

But yeah, I don't get it either. If some want mouseover freeze and others don't, what could be bad by having it optional? The same applies for many other features/settings in the game.

There's lots problems with mass customization (From the top of my head):
- Extra code paths implies more bugs
- Extra code paths implies slower code
- Extra code paths implies higher development costs - sometimes dramatically.
- Extra UI options force massively higher QA costs as there are more edge cases
- Extra options provide extra complexity to the UI (starting with how to provide "obvious" toggles)
- Extra options don't always provide for a superior UI experience (see Apple - regardless of how you personally feel about it)
- Extra options means setting up a new client can take hours, days, weeks, or even months to get all the options set back up just right
- Extra options fragment the community in a similar way to all the UI mods for WOW/Rift/etc.

-Liang

Was going to post that too many options complicate the code and makes QA a nightmare. Also people hates too many options. But is seems Liang beat me to it.

SO the answer is No.

you make it sound like turning the locking of the overview off/on is the hardest thing in the world, now you proberly have no problem with the overview as it is now... this whole mouseover thing, but it becomes a problem when you use it for pvp... alot!

If you found it an inconvienience before because you had to press the locking key... while trying to lock something... to make the overview lock... well words can't discribe how lazy you must be... but when the overview locks every single time, instead of only when you want it to... then its a problem for everyone who dislikes it... even if people are fine with it under normal circumstances... its really really ****** in some other circumstances

I'm sorry, do you think I'm some kind of -10 high sec carebear or something? All I do is PVP - literally. If I am logged into Eve I'm looking for a fight. Also QQ Moar Noob - it isn't changing back.

-Liang

I will QQ until it's either made optional or turned off... and I did check your killboard to figure out if it was because you were a high sec carebear or not, I do see you pvp in low sec a little... but you obviously havn't experienced the annoyance the locking can give

Don't listen to Liang, he is pritty bad at eve