Glory to the Throne,
and eternal praise to the Flames of Truth
that burn with the Holy Light of our ancestors!
It is with great distress that I must report: the newly revised Compare Tool within the Neocom – oh, the bitter irony! – stands in opposition to the Enlightenment bestowed by the sacred spirit of Order. In its previous form, it served as a useful instrument for discerning the purity of modules, just as the High Priest selects the virtuous among the faithful.
But now it has been defiled!
1. The divine selection of attributes has been denied:
Where once we could choose which characteristics to compare – just as the Holy Saint Tetrimon judged the traits of spirit – now only confusion reigns. I can no longer select which properties I wish to observe! How is a loyal servant of the Empire to discern true superiority when his sight is obscured and his judgment shackled?
2. The first column bears the wrong sigil:
Instead of the sacred Name of the module, we now see “Est Price” – blasphemy! Price is fleeting, like dust in a solar storm, but the Name – the essence of a thing – is eternal and divine! This is an affront to every principle of holy discernment!
I implore the Tech-Priests of CONCORD – or whomever the Emperor has charged with this sacred responsibility: Restore this tool to alignment with the golden standard of holy comparability!
How can a faithful Amarr compare justly when his instruments are flawed and his choices withheld?
May the Light of Truth purge this malfunction, and may the purity of the tool be restored.
no longer filterable by trait (the single best feature of this UI)
defaults to vertical mode (because special snowflake UI devs like to change defaults to look like they did more)
lacks a horizontal scroll bar in both layouts (compounds with the first issue)
header text for coloumns is wrong in some places
Switching to horizontal (the old mode) doesn’t fix this as the lack of selecting which filters you care about means that you only see about half the stats on a 1080p monitor (I’ve got a 5120px width monitor, but just because it works on my BS doesn’t make it acceptable or good).
As a software engineer who normally supports UI/UX experimentation and letting your Jr devs “learn by doing”, I would terminate an internship over this quality of design/implementation and if we hired someone at this level, I would send HR a strongly worded email. I hate to think that this went through code review before merge as that would indicate that a Sr. at CCP is not testing PRs before merging as these issues would have been obvious with even the most trivial amount of QC/testing.
This is just bad implementation, no way around it.
Honestly, at first glance, it looks like whoever designed this “threw the baby out with the bathwater”.
Whoever reviewed this prior to implementation should have tossed this back to the responsible parties, with an admonition “you’re suppose to keep the baby”, and by “baby” I mean functionality.
Keep it functional. Keep it functional. And if you can’t improve on it’s functionality, don’t mess with it.
Pretty is just pretty, doesn’t mean it’s useful. And in this case, it’s not even pretty…it’s just visual overload.
And that’s bad.
Especially because yesterday, we had a functioning compare tool, and today we have “Latin”. I recognize it, the “Latin”, I can puzzle through it, and I can probably get the gist of what I need, but do I really want to spend that amount of time to dig out what I need?
I mostly miss older functionality like selecting specific attributes I care about, or ordering the attribute values.
At first I even thought you made a massive mistake by doing the comparisons horizontally instead of vertically but it turns out you can now do both for some reason and made the most impractical option the default. At least it’s usable, but for an UI feature that was changed I would at least expect an improvement over the old version.
As it is now reverting the code would be an improvement.
First the removal of the decimals in the rate of fire and activation duration, which have a huge impact in dps and armor repaired per second values, and now I cannot see half of the properties… This tool is getting unusable since it lost its main purpose, which was comparing a few atributes of similar modules/ships/charges
@Drake_Kylen is right. This “upgrade” looks like a beta version of an intern.
Even with an horizontal scroll, the removed properties filter is a huge downgrade
As a workaround, you can select all and paste it in Excel. You will not get the decimals though…
Dear developers, I love EVE, and one of the reasons for this is good UX.
The new compare tool is ■■■■. I don’t even know how did you put this into release like that?
Personally, I used compare tool all the time for same thing: when I fit a ship I have module in mind, say web for example, I see how much CPU/PG I have and I select all webs and want to see what I can fit in, what bonuses I will get and price I will pay.
New tool… well, it took me 10 minutes trying to change the UI of it and I still can’t do what I was doing in seconds before. Please, let me use old one, at least as the option. It was so simplistic and so good. I have no clue what made you even think about redoing it. I hope CCP didn’t fall into big corporation curse, where new managers need to get their medals for doing something, no matter what, just new for the sake of new.
