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Treya Neverette
The Whiskey Rebellion
Mildy Unprofessional
#1 - 2012-12-20 04:56:02 UTC
I have flown in many fights with a high number of individual's. At the end of the fight, you hear a lot about, "How did he get offsite? he should have been pointed." Every time I hear this, I think back to the battle. How hectic it was, how laggy it was =), or how escalated and cluttered it was with wrecks, drones and ships.
That being said, I think if the fleet you were in, had more information at their hands they could be more effective at controlling what ships get off the field, especially when you have the upper hand.
CCP made a big step forward using visualizations on the tactical to pass information to the pilots, and its much appreciated. I think we need to make a second step and do more. Ideas like making friendly fleet wide visualizations, A.E. a small blue ring around the ship when tactical is open, when a fleet mate points a non fleet member. Or maybe a small icon, A.E. like when people in fleet broadcast armor/shield/cap. These are small things that will make everyone more knowledgeable on the already hectic EVE battlefield.

....discuss....
Luka Datitties
Star-Gate Command
#2 - 2012-12-20 06:18:58 UTC
So give a visual queue similar to how brackets change when ships become targetable... but show they are warp disrupted. Hmmm... Would be nice, but I suspect the role of dictors would be stepped on a little. If this notification were in the overview I think that would make things too easy. Is that a bad thing though?

Curious what others think.
Treya Neverette
The Whiskey Rebellion
Mildy Unprofessional
#3 - 2012-12-20 06:55:32 UTC
Luka Datitties wrote:
So give a visual queue similar to how brackets change when ships become targetable... but show they are warp disrupted. Hmmm... Would be nice, but I suspect the role of dictors would be stepped on a little. If this notification were in the overview I think that would make things too easy. Is that a bad thing though?

Curious what others think.


As for the dictor pilot role being stepped on, I would agree in 00. But when it comes to LS/HS where the bubble is useless, it would be a god send.

I think just as long as it is only visible to the current fleet members only it would be perfect. No global notification.
Luka Datitties
Star-Gate Command
#4 - 2012-12-20 07:11:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Luka Datitties
Treya Neverette wrote:

As for the dictor pilot role being stepped on, I would agree in 00. But when it comes to LS/HS where the bubble is useless, it would be a god send.


True, but one could argue that being in LS or HS you should just a little bit safer than in null where they do have dictors.
I don't think I would make that argument per se, but in the spirit of discussion and all. Working as intended? Perhaps.
If this introduced extra lag I would be against it.

The thing is once the enemy fleet decides to pull out they all warp out at once so you don't really know when you should be looking to spread points. By the time you know this most guys are gone anyway. A fleet of experienced pilots will proactively be looking for the enemy fleet bugging out and getting points on their own if they are worth their salt.
LT Alter
Ryba.
White Squall.
#5 - 2012-12-20 07:20:11 UTC
It's give and take, should I be in a fleet looking for a mass of killmails I would certainly like it. On the other hand if I was in an expensive ship in a dieing fleet I would hope nobody noticed I'm not warp disrupted or scrambled. In my opinion it takes away from the skill level of the players and puts more in the hands of the games structure which takes a bit away from what eve is supposed to be, don't you think? I'm not opposed to the idea but I'm not entirely for it either.
Galphii
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-12-20 13:16:59 UTC
We're seeing more and more that Eve's UI is becoming intuitive and useful, as opposed to obtuse and unfathomable, and this would be a nice addition to the available information.

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