Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I agree. There have been many times where I ended up in a crossroad system where I'd have to take 1 of 2 gates towards my waypoints and not knowing which was leading where. I like the idea of coloring them differently, one color for the next waypoint and another for the rest. It's simple and effective. Maybe even add a number in parenthesis indicating which waypoint it's leading to?

I would have thought more people would have run into this issue.

Not always, I just used a really simple example.

Lets just say I'm in Thashkarai, and I need to pick up some stuff from Nafrivik, Iro, Mani, Lossa, Atoosh and Tew.

I want to do this as fast as possible, so I optimise my autopilot, and undock.

When I look at my overview, the Remoriu, Atoosh, and Abai gates are all highlighted.

There is no easy way to tell at a glance which gate I should jump to.

The obvious choice is to jump to the Atoosh gate, as it is one of my targets, but it is actually the 3rd of the optimised waypoints, so going there first might slow down the overall trip.

My actual target is the Abai gate, but to know that I have to look at the map, or hover over the tiny route icons.


It really should be clear in the overview, because it is the overview I interact with to jump to the gate, not the map or route display.

It would increase everyone's useability.

I agree, this would be a handy thing to have. Was just thinking the same thing a couple of days ago.

Yes, it's not that hard to look at which gate you just warped through, but not having something like this when it should be easy to implement is just creating hassles for the sake of it. I can't see any real value in not having such a simple guide.

on the top left of my screen is a line of coloured boxes showing your route. Just above that it says "Next System in route: SystemName"

However changing the yellow highligheted icons so only the next one was highlighted, or the other ones had a different colour would really help.

Bumping to make EVE a few pixels more colorful.

Needs more attention!

Perhaps for each leg of the journey a numbered or lettered designator can be placed over a spot in the route.

IOW, when you click your first waypoint up, you designate it as stop #1 and the icon for it doubles in size in the Autopilot info grid and overview and a big 1 is super-imposed across the icon. Then you designate your second waypoint as stop #2 and the same thing happens except it says 2. Now, in between each icon in the line of colored icons between your designated waypoints, each icon and stargate name/icon will have the preceding number super-imposed over it, designating it as that particular leg of your journey.

Of course these icons would be designated by you and could be altered at any given time to your whims.

I likes the idea. Can't think of a reason not to put this in.