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three new buttons which would improve PI significantly
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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#1 - 2013-03-03 02:50:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Bienator II
those buttons would be added next to the "view planetary command center" button of the PI panel

1) left/right arrow buttons which let you switch between your planets
2) restart button lets you restart all programs of a planet (does not submit, you have to click it yourself)
3) PI button on neocom. opens your nearest planet if in system, otherwise the first planet of the science/industry window list

additional little change: if you enter planet view you enter at the same location where you left last time

(buttons 1-2 are only visible if you have a command center on this planet)


those changes would make PI far less of a clickfest. You wouldn't even need the science and industry window anymore to cycle through all planets.

pretty please with cherry on top!

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Sphit Ker
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2013-03-03 07:31:21 UTC
I just want processor grouping. I want to route stuff in and out of the group and all the processors of the group gets fed at once. Because **** you select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad, select product, create route,click processor, click create route, select launch pad ::submit::


ahaaaaaaaaa

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Jarvan Kern
Tyrfing Industries
#3 - 2013-03-03 12:04:43 UTC
Logged on to suggest PI improvements, and this pretty much sums it up. I would also like to add that being able to mark more than one resource in a storage and route them all with one click to a processor group would be rather awesome.
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#4 - 2013-03-03 18:16:05 UTC
Jarvan Kern wrote:
Logged on to suggest PI improvements, and this pretty much sums it up. I would also like to add that being able to mark more than one resource in a storage and route them all with one click to a processor group would be rather awesome.

or just drag and drop them to the destination.. thats how i would have done it at least. Far more drag and drop for PI.

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Nejira
People On fire
#5 - 2013-03-24 22:26:27 UTC
A few of us in Planetary Interaction channel shared some ideas for PI today.

Placing Notes - The ability to right click anywhere on a planet and add a note about that specific location (e.g., "High Noble Metal Deposit Here," or "Deposit is heavily extracted by other players.")

Smart-Route/Auto-Route - A button that makes its best attempt to route resources the way the user would want. The user chooses the schematic and creates the links between storage and processors/extractors and the Auto-Route will route the processor products to to the storage and look for the lesser products required for the schematic.

Undo and Redo Buttons - Having only submit and cancel is annoying at times. Something similar to the bar at the bottom in character creation that has all your changes in it would be nice.

New Routing - As Bienator suggested, we need "Far more drag and drop for PI." With that in mind, Spike Mileghere in the channel suggested, "Something like the route planner we have for our ships :D"

Efficiency Indicator - Instead of a new spreadsheet for every time you want to have a different PI setup, Brasak Prime suggests, "An indicator to say in percentage terms if you are extracting enough ore to cover the processing installations you have over the extraction period you have set."
Leskit
Pure Victory
#6 - 2013-03-25 05:14:45 UTC
Sphit Ker wrote:
I just want processor grouping. I want to route stuff in and out of the group and all the processors of the group gets fed at once.


this. one possible fix: shift+click. think about it.
Ager Agemo
Rainbow Ponies Incorporated
#7 - 2013-03-25 05:54:08 UTC
Nejira wrote:
A few of us in Planetary Interaction channel shared some ideas for PI today.

Placing Notes - The ability to right click anywhere on a planet and add a note about that specific location (e.g., "High Noble Metal Deposit Here," or "Deposit is heavily extracted by other players.")

Smart-Route/Auto-Route - A button that makes its best attempt to route resources the way the user would want. The user chooses the schematic and creates the links between storage and processors/extractors and the Auto-Route will route the processor products to to the storage and look for the lesser products required for the schematic.

Undo and Redo Buttons - Having only submit and cancel is annoying at times. Something similar to the bar at the bottom in character creation that has all your changes in it would be nice.

New Routing - As Bienator suggested, we need "Far more drag and drop for PI." With that in mind, Spike Mileghere in the channel suggested, "Something like the route planner we have for our ships :D"

Efficiency Indicator - Instead of a new spreadsheet for every time you want to have a different PI setup, Brasak Prime suggests, "An indicator to say in percentage terms if you are extracting enough ore to cover the processing installations you have over the extraction period you have set."



oh god no! if CCP did this, PI would be so nice people might actually start doing it! we dont want that do we? they will undock less and stuff trying to get the highest efficiency possible.
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#8 - 2013-03-25 06:01:46 UTC
Isn't PI getting redone anyway this expansion? & Ager, remember most of these people who complain about the 'PI Click Fest' will be running 8 PI alts across 4 accounts, or something like that.
Xindi Kraid
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#9 - 2013-03-25 08:22:17 UTC
Being able to group any sort of command would be nice to reduce clicks.

Another thing to look at: it is generally a good idea to pass products to storage and then input from that storage for load balancing and to prevent production over and under-runs that result in product loss. It would save a lot of time if you could route the output of one node directly to the input of another and have it cached automatically if connected storage is available rather than forcing us to make an extra half dozen routes.
monkfish2345
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-03-25 12:30:32 UTC
I think 1 & 2 are a nice idea, but there needs to be an amount of care when making things easier especially for something that once set up is 99% passive already.

as i, there is a mindset where players will have 10 PI alts or w/e because with enough characters it can earn a nice living. making resetting every thing quicker and easier will only encourage this further.
While it isn't a lot of work now, i know it's more than i can be bothered with for only 2 characters let alone trying to manage it across a mass of alts. and personally i'd prefer it stayed that way.