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tactical overview & formations
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Mapets
Echelon Research
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2012-04-06 18:40:02 UTC
Hello everyone o/ . with no long story of how i came to these ideas here goes:

- "tactical" button in eve from HUD to shown a zoomed out map style view of the grid with ships and objects highlighted with color according to overview settings (red / corp-green , ally blue ,... u get the idea) and little more info regarding position, distance elevation to own ship .... tactical info stuff no ??
Option for a more complex ship movement while in tactical view , like ability to set a destination on the battlefield (grid) for the ship w/o needing object / ship to be there. space flight simulator control options in normal view would find appreciation to i guess .

- "formations" for fleets. - Instead of abusing the follow command as we all do in eve atm in big fleets where all 250 ppl chase the white rabbit (assigned anchor) we could use use a join formation command, making the ship chase that imaginary position it was assigned in the formation.
The formation complexity and size can be skill related and more complex formations limited to be created with specific ship like command ship. Allow a simple formation like wall / claw / arrow to be created by a squad commander that has liedership 5 trained and more complex formations or custom formations to be created by a command ship on wing/fleet commander position skilled accordingly. would hugely improve fleet combat experience and most definitely add a great to the overall visual experience of larger encounters.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-04-06 18:59:26 UTC
There is already a tactical overlay you can turn on. Just zoom out and you can see the whole battle. I doubt that targeting coordinates will ever be implemented and I know that flight sim controls will never be implemented (search to find the myriad threads on the topic and why it won't happen).

As to formations, there was a dev during Fanfest that said that he didn't see the need for fleets and thought they were bad but that it would be possible to persuade him with strong enough reasoning. He made a thread for feedback in the GD forums IIRC, find that and post your formation ideas in there if you actually want them implemented.
Zyress
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-04-06 19:13:28 UTC
It would be amusing to be able to pick a point on grid and warp to it without having a bookmark or an object there to warp to as a way of moving about the grid tactically. I'm a little confused about the grid though, what its mature is. Is it a spherical grid in all directions from a center point on your ship that moves with you? If so I suppose you would need at minimum 2 numbers 0 - 359 degrees in the horizontal and vertical planes to point your direction and another number for the distance, the greater the distance the greater the error would be if you limit the first 2 numbers to 360 degrees though. It's a cool idea, but it wouldn't be easy. It would make staying aligned to something a whole new priority when anything on grid can warp into point range.
Mapets
Echelon Research
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2012-04-06 19:58:29 UTC
ofc there is a tactical button in eve but is useless and has been ignored by everyone, i mean i`ve found it useless as everyone i played with for the past 6 years i played EVE so i imagine most if not all ppl do to

for that flight sim controls , i`m not that much into that stuff either but i`m thinking that the ability of flying the ship that whey would widen the range of players interested in playing EVE .... more subscribers for CCP and stuff...