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OH HAI. CCP Booster here.
So as part of Team Papercuts’ effort to make every EVE player’s life a little better, I was tasked with making it easier to retrieve goodies from wrecks or floating cans. So, uhm, I made a button…. and uh, you can click it….and it LOOTS ALL THE THINGS!!!! This has the exact same behavior as it would if you were to select all the contents of the container and drag them, but faster and easier.
booster best dev confirm?
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On November 18 2011 04:26 TobZero wrote:Show nested quote +OH HAI. CCP Booster here.
So as part of Team Papercuts’ effort to make every EVE player’s life a little better, I was tasked with making it easier to retrieve goodies from wrecks or floating cans. So, uhm, I made a button…. and uh, you can click it….and it LOOTS ALL THE THINGS!!!! This has the exact same behavior as it would if you were to select all the contents of the container and drag them, but faster and easier. booster best dev confirm?
WHAT IS THIS!!! WHY IS CCP SO GOOD! 
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All the UI improvements in that devblog are from people in between projects for World of Darkness... the sheer rate of improvements and their individual marginal products are pretty damning about where the programming effort has been going since Incarna started development.
If this keeps up, more and better spaceship fun for everyone seems like the order of the day.
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On November 18 2011 03:26 ghost_403 wrote:http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3108New dev blog basically says four guys fixed half of the UI in between projects. Warp to gate and jump makes traveling worlds better. And, as a new and abusable feature, reconnect to lost drones!
I'd say bombing runs with stealth bombers will be a hella lot easier. Obv I've never done one myself, perhaps it's really easy already.
"And finally, one of my pet peeves for years now has been that missile launchers don’t show their range when you mouse over them when using the tactical overlay, so I’ve gone ahead and fixed that for you too. And while I was at it, I did some extra credit and made it so bomb launchers show the explosion radius centered where the bomb is going to land ~30km in front of your ship."
Edit: I feel that WoD got the best programers from CCP 
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What makes bombing runs hard is not dieing and getting a goodwarpin without decloaking each other beforehand. Dropping the bomb when targets are 30km on your overview is pretty easy.
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On November 18 2011 05:09 polluxtby wrote:I'd say bombing runs with stealth bombers will be a hella lot easier. Obv I've never done one myself, perhaps it's really easy already. "And finally, one of my pet peeves for years now has been that missile launchers don’t show their range when you mouse over them when using the tactical overlay, so I’ve gone ahead and fixed that for you too. And while I was at it, I did some extra credit and made it so bomb launchers show the explosion radius centered where the bomb is going to land ~30km in front of your ship." Edit: I feel that WoD got the best programers from CCP
I vote we start an online geurilla warfare operation against WoD, and kill it, forcing these devs back to Eve.
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Did you miss when they downsized like 20% of the workforce? It's already dead.
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On November 18 2011 05:36 Byzantium wrote:
Did you miss when they downsized like 20% of the workforce? It's already dead.
They did that beacuse they needed to refocus the company. they brought in quite a few people to do that.
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Yes, and refocusing the company meant basically killing WoD for the forseeable future.
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On November 18 2011 05:53 Byzantium wrote:
Yes, and refocusing the company meant basically killing WoD for the forseeable future.
They still have at least these four people working on WoD, which are four talented programers NOT working on EVE due to WoD I'd say
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On November 18 2011 03:26 ghost_403 wrote:http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3108New dev blog basically says four guys fixed half of the UI in between projects. Warp to gate and jump makes traveling worlds better. And, as a new and abusable feature, reconnect to lost drones!
some nice stuff, just wish the stupid thing where the selected item box minimises when your spamming a button was included as well
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The ui in Eve has always been a huge let-down.
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On November 18 2011 08:50 Perscienter wrote:
The ui in Eve has always been a huge let-down.
The UI in EVE is how The Hatchery generates most of its income.
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How shall I interpret that? The UI is the tool with which you crush your opponents? Or are you profiting from its inefficiencies?
Despite of that, as far as I can tell from the thread, your success is caused by your strategies and analysis of the game, which you developed.
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the new Battle crusiers are going to make class 1 wh's a huge liability. You can put enough firepower to take down a pos in a reasonable timeframe.
speaking of wh's I happen to have a scanner inside one with an offline pos with guns anchored if anyone wants to take one over.
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On November 18 2011 09:18 Perscienter wrote:
How shall I interpret that? The UI is the tool with which you crush your opponents? Or are you profiting from its inefficiencies?
Despite of that, as far as I can tell from the thread, your success is caused by your strategies and analysis of the game, which you developed.
PVP/pirate success, yes.
however people like motbob and kwark and (formerly) myself use the UI to steal other's money. Sometimes people make stupid mistakes and don't catch them in time.
Ex. Someone has stack of item "Y"
They try to sell 1 item "Y" for price 1,000,000 ISK
They mess up because they are stupid/went too fast/screwed up thanks to the kinda sucky UI.
End up putting entire stack of "Y" on market for the price of 1.
motbob buys, makes billions.
edit: I'd also like to note that it's kinda crazy how many people who have never even looked at playing EVE live off of the posts of Hatchery members in this thread. Haha. I don't play at all since I left the hatchery and I still read this thread daily. :p
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Pretty sure I never did any analysis to make my isk off the contracts. People were just stupid. Nuff said.
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