Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No, your FC should not be able to play the game for you.

Automation at that level would compromise the EULA!

Saying that, the Align button is only required with ships of different agility and mass (skills too) a fleet of 'all level 5' drakes in identical fits only need the fleet warp button.

I agree it would be better like the safety button

Totally agreed.

I'd like to suggest something additional.
I'm not FCing but spamming x in fleet is really a pain in the bumm if your FC is waiting for multiple responses and tries to keep track of everything. It really could use some improvement. I get it sometimes, when I'm a squad member.

Some color coded information if you are currently sitting in your pod (red?), sitting in a ship but not battle ready (yellow?) and beeing ready for combat (green?), that the FC can see wich state is everyone in and if it would be wise to call for a tactical retreat (if such thing exists in EVE). Giving the option to switch between yellow and green to the pilot might reduce some elements of communication that make larger fleets less enjoyable.

The ability to assign multiple tags (and then beeing able to see only these) to fleet members (ECM, Damp, TP, Pointer, Shield, Armor, long and short range, etc.) could also bring some more overview in fleets.

Perhaps some clearly visible notification like "cyno available to you. wanna jump?" could (don't know if) make it a bit more convenient for cap pilots. I'm not a cap-pilot so I really don't know if this is a wise idea.

There is already too much automation in fleet combat, and too much FC control and input, adding additional mechanism of circumventing individual pilot decision-making is bad. In fact fleet warps should be removed, as well as target and rep broadcasts, because they reduce significance of individual pilot's skill and focus.

agreed, which is why the fleet align and jump commands weren't a big deal.

However, what about having an align to warp point option on warp gates?

This would be really nice to have

To add to this, I think the reason for the fleet warp is due to communication lag.

I can do a countdown to warp for the fleet, but there are players that will be at least 3 seconds behind, if not more.

People that know their coms are lagging should start warping earlier in the countdown.

Again in my opinion anything that gives pilots more opportunity to **** it up is better because it gives advantage to fleets with more experienced and disciplined pilots, and this is the way it should be. With all the fleet automation and decision making centralisation even fleets of spurging idiots can be effective, all they need to do is anchor up, lock broadcast and press F1. IMHO this situation is bad, it provides wrong incentives and rewords, and should go away, the sooner the better.

Well, now that the stickies are moving people seem to be starting more threads....

Your bad, should feel bad, and pray that your logi pilots never read this thread!