My concept can be found here.

You want somehting like a WoW fitting with stats ?

I'd not rule anything out if it works.

Dust was too reverential to the Eve UI as a way to appeal to Eve users. But that was a mistake as it immediately limits your potential demographic. Better to use the lore but create your own experience.

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

WoW takes a bashing for many reasons and a lot of them are justified.

But it does a lot of things well and should be recognised as a base level for MMO. Now, Rouge has already stated hat they want to put more MMO into legion than we've had before because the social interaction is great for community strength. This leads to more emergent gameplay and a unique hook to rescue those poor souls from the clutches of COD.

A whole new perspective shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. CCP Ankou is a new hire with lots of passion by accounts given to me. Some blue sky thinking with the UI is needed I think.

I'd not rule anything out if it works.

Dust was too reverential to the Eve UI as a way to appeal to Eve users. But that was a mistake as it immediately limits your potential demographic. Better to use the lore but create your own experience.

Didn-¦t make any comments on WoW, and don-¦t intend to. I asked you if that was the model, you dodged the question, and now you-¦re explaining yourself when there-¦s no need to (at least for my person, don-¦t know who you-¦re arguing with).

I do however understand now where your progression arguments came from.

Player Market:

The Legion Market should deal in Digital Tokens rather than physical items, so that we donGÇÖt have to deal with the problem of transporting our possessions. (The physical items still need to get to the battlefield, but this would only come into play at the Planetary Conquest level where Player Corporations are handling the logistics.)


Background on Digital Tokens:

One of the great advantages of the new immortal solders is that an experienced solder can be downloaded into a combat clone anywhere in the galaxy in an instant and be ready to go. But that leads to the question of gear, which is transported the hard slow way. The clones and gear have to be available on the Warbarge to be used in battle. Clones are standard, but gear is not.

Corporations did not want to pay for high end gear on top of what they were paying the immortal solders to do the job, and wanted to implement cost effective standard fits. But the Immortal Solders, these Mercenaries that took the CorporationsGÇÖ ground combat contracts, felt they knew better when it was appropriate to use expensive gear to get the job done. They did not like being told what fits to use, and many refused to take contracts that restricted their fits.

The solution was the Digital Token system. A Digital Toke gives you the right to use an item of a specific make and model from the inventory of any Corporation you are working for. The Token is exchanged for the item, and if you donGÇÖt lose the item, the token is returned when you hand in your gear at the end of the match. If you salvage and item, you hand that item in as well, and receive a Digital Token in exchange for that item.

The life cycle of a Digital Token starts and ends with item retailers. When a item is manufactured the Company then sells a Digital Token for that item (Adding a new item to the galactic inventory, allows you to also create a Digital Token). The Digital Token can be sold for ISK, but the physical item can only be exchanged for a Digital Token for that exact item.

If we donGÇÖt have manufacturing, this system still works, because when you turn in a salvaged item, the company you give the item too then gives you a digital token for that item.

When a Company stocks a Warbarge, they buy Digital Tokens (if they donGÇÖt have the Tokens they need already) for any items that Mercenaries might want to use, then they exchange those Digital Tokens for the physical items, which are loaded into the physical inventory on the Warbarge. This is a very large initial investment, but once the Warbarge is fully stocked the Company will not need to buy any more Digital Tokens, because every time a Mercenary used an item from the Warbarge inventory, the Company owning the Warbarge gets a Digital Token in exchange. When the Inventory gets low, these Digital Tokens can be exchanged for the physical items that need to be replaced.

If a Warbarge inventory ends up with too much of an item, due to that item being turned in as salvage more often than it is used, the Company can transport the item to a Salvage dealer and exchange the item for a Digital Token. The Digital Token can then be sold on the open market.

This system allows Mercenaries to pay for their gear ahead of time, and then have full access to any gear in the Warbarge inventory that they have already paid for, as well as insuring that the owner of the Warbarge gets reimbursed for any items you use.

It also means that you can buy and sell Digital Tokens instantly anywhere in the Galaxy without having to worry about transporting items. The Item transport is handled behind the scenes by the big Corporations, and is something that front line Infantry donGÇÖt have to worry about.

While moving around the Menus it would be great to have a subtle background soundtrack. Right now it's too quiet in the Merc Quarters...

How about some elevator muzak? (I don't think music is CCP Ankou's...wait for it...forte.)

How about some elevator muzak? (I don't think music is CCP Ankou's...wait for it...forte.)