Friday, 11 June 2010

PI all thumbs

Is it just me or is managing PI a bit on the tediously fiddly side. Now running a corp and manufacturing means I hit up against eve's awkward UI's a number of times. managing permissions and setting up POS reactions can be a pain. But I have a feeling PI is going to be so much more awkward since it requires tweaking every 24-96 hours to make it efficient.

Now if your only dealing with a few extractors on a single planet then your fine it's not a big hassle, I'm currently managing 5 planets across 2 characters, and could am able to boost that up to 12 planets across 3 characters. But when it comes to dealing with reactivating the extractors the interface is currently a pain to use.

I'm mostly running strip mining operations with the intention of moving the resources to a single character within our corp for refinment. so each planet has 8-14 extractors which is alot of clicking about to reactivate the extractors.

My thoughts n this is that a plantary overview window needs to be added where you can browse down the extractors on the list, trigger them to survey and select the item you want for all your extractors on that planet within a single window.

Pros:
  • Quicker to manage a planet and allows the player to get back to other activites whcih will promote player uptake.
  • Less hits on the server as you are less likely to miss extractors and resubmit your changes.
Cons:
  • None?

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