particularly apartment in the fitting screens.

I think you wanted to say apparent :) Just a tiny edit needed. And yes I agree with most of the stuff you mentioned. We need smooth connection between game menus and ease of access!

Second, as you are aware, we are working on this little new thing called the Player Market.
-What are you expectations around this?

I want to actually interact with things in a tangible way, not just through text and menus. I want to feel part of a world, and not like I'm just playing some lobby shooter.

I want to see my corp's HQ and its members, not just read their names in a menu.
I want to see squadmates all in one room, the MQ of the squad leader.
I want to see my assets (even if its all in just boxes).
I want to explore social hubs with EVE and Dust players in space stations or planetary cities instead of just chat rooms.
I want to explore districts and manually salvage dropped goods when not in battle.
EDIT: I want to explore the space station my merc quarters is currently on, and to see other mercs there as well.

Hey guys,

I am CCP Ankou, and as the blue tag under my name shows, I am one of the guys working on Project Legion in Shanghai. IGÇÖm currently in charge of User Experience, and my goal is to ensure you have a smooth experience playing the game!

So, I have been super excited to see the discussion about HUD started by our dear CCP MC Peanut.
We are definitively trying to take into account all your ideas and feedbacks!

I was wondering if we could have a similar discussion about the Menus: especially the Market and Fitting Screens.

First, I would like your feedbacks on your experience with DUST Menus.
-What were the things you liked?
-What were you biggest frustrations?
-What were the features you thought were clearly missing? I mean the things you wanted to do but you could not or you felt were cumbersome.

Second, as you are aware, we are working on this little new thing called the Player Market.
-What are you expectations around this?

Do not hesitate to throw your craziest ideas and references. This is brainstorming time here not GÇ£omg we will not have time to implement thisGÇ¥ time.

Waiting to hear from you my dear gamers.

CCP Ankou

Hey guys,
...
I was wondering if we could have a similar discussion about the Menus: especially the Market and Fitting Screens.

First, I would like your feedbacks on your experience with DUST Menus.
-What were the things you liked?
-What were you biggest frustrations?
-What were the features you thought were clearly missing? I mean the things you wanted to do but you could not or you felt were cumbersome.

Second, as you are aware, we are working on this little new thing called the Player Market.
-What are you expectations around this?
....

CCP Ankou

First, I would like your feedbacks on your experience with DUST Menus.
-What were the things you liked?
-What were you biggest frustrations?
-What were the features you thought were clearly missing? I mean the things you wanted to do but you could not or you felt were cumbersome.

Second, as you are aware, we are working on this little new thing called the Player Market.
-What are you expectations around this?

----In Battle----

Informational Popovers--

Problem:

The TAB key opens the leader-board will a full screen popup that disrupts game play. Trying to close this menu is even more frustrating because hitting ESC doesn't close it fast enough, and I think hitting ESC again opens a different menu. It sometimes takes 2-3 seconds before I'm able to recover. Look how close the TAB key is to WASD (Up, Left, Down, Right). I have hit this button so many times unintentionally causing a death in an expensive suit I've lost count. I rant about this constantly.

Solution:

- Allow the keyboard keys to be rebound to keys that I want.
- Replace those full screen popups with quick loading temporary popovers that don't disrupt game play. Meaning:
-- The menu is semi-transparent.
-- I can still move around a shoot.
-- Holding the button down activates menu (w/ min press of, lets say 50 milliseconds).
-- Releasing button deactivates menu.

Restocking In Battle--

Problem:

If you run out of stock on a suit you have to go through a few menus to restock a suit. Sometimes after restocking that suit it selects the previous suit you had (bug?). Getting back in battle can take longer than I would like.

Solution:

Let me select the suit and restock it in the background. I'd be willing to pay a 10% ISK penalty to get into battle that much faster. If I want to restock more than 1x suit, then I can go through the whole menu.

ISK Proficiency--

Problem:

Currently there is no way to know how much ISK was lost vs how much was gained. I currently put the cost in thousands in the fitting name (manually) and keep a running total in my head. Even then, I don't know how many WP I got from each fitting before I got terminated. Yes I spent 50,000 on this suit, but was it worth it? How many WP did I get while in this suit? How much damage in / out and heal in / out did I do? Yes this suit costs 10k and this one costs 50k and I spent 100k (gasp!) but did the 50k suit contribute to the team more?

Solution:

- In battle, perhaps when selecting a fitting for spawn, show ISK out.
- End of battle, Show a total ISK out vs ISK in. How much profit?
- End of battle, Dedicate a tab to proficiency. Show WP in/out, damage in/out, healing in/out, ISK out, kills, vehicle blown up, and duration for each fitting before termination. If someone revives you, that doesn't count as a termination. If you switch to a different suit from a supply depot it "counts" but would show 0 ISK out.

WP Gain vs Repair & Restock Messages -

Problem: They look the same. Blue text.
Solution: Change the color. Things that give you WP should be one color, things that don't should be another.

--Out of Battle--

Battle History--

Problem: You can only see the last battle. You lose that information when you log out.
Solution: Have a battle history. If I want to see the result of the last 10 battles, let me, and keep it around even when I log out.

Restocking Fittings--

Problem:

The fitting restock is terrible. It blindly restocks everything by 1x, even when you have too much of something in the fitting already.

Solution:

Take other fittings into account. If I have two fittings that both use Enhanced Armor Plates and it takes up 3 low slots between the two fittings it should be no more than 3x of that module. So if I have 100 Enhanced Armor Plates and I restock both fittings to 20 it should not restock the Enhanced Armor Plates. In this example it should make sure I have up to 60.

This would work by looking at the other suit and seeing that it already has a stock of 20. When I restock the second suit it should restock a module to satisfy that fitting, without taking away from the other fittings.

I currently have to do this manually by restocking modules individually, and it takes a lot of time. Because of a lack of time I have to be somewhat sloppy about it.

Managing Fittings --

Problem:

Managing fittings should be more intuitive and faster.

Solution:

- Allow the player to manually sort fittings.
- Allow player to set a preferred stock level for each fitting.
- Allow player to "restock all" based on preferred stock of each fitting.
- Show the price of a fitting in the list by thousands. If something cost 50,000 ISK show 50k in the name.

Fitting Stats --

Problem:

There are a lot of stats that are affected by skills/modules that are not shown on the fitting that are shown on the suit attributes. OK this module effects this stat by X percent. What is it now? It shows the base stat in the market attributes, but it does not show it in the fitting. There is a stacking penalty, but what is it and by how much? This damage mod increases my Light weapon damage, but what is the stat at right now?

Solution:

- Show every stat before skills and mods.
- Show every stat after skills and before mods.
- Show every stat after skills and after mods.

No Online Status --

Problem: Contacts is useless because you don't know whether they're online or not. People work around this by using chat channels. If the person is offline they don't show up in the channel.

Solution: Add an online status to the contacts list.

Looking for squad --

Problem:

It's time consuming to get people into a squad, especially those on your contact list or chat channel. "lfs" is the common thing you see when someone is looking for a squad in a chat channel. By the time you get out of battle they're already in a different squad.

Solution:

- Show squad status in contact list and chat channels.
- Show battle status in contact list and chat channels.
- Have a squad setting to allow players in chat channels or on your contact list to join your squad without being invited.

I agree with some folks here that lack of information was problematic. I don't want to have to bust out my calculator just to see what the basic bonus is for my damage output. The same goes for the stats not updating with the bonuses as they should. And as others have pointed out, knowing the damage type for each weapon is helpful if you can implement it.