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How about categorizing wrecks in the Overview ?
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Ziester
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-05-20 11:12:15 UTC
I've been thinking about that, and it might be cool.

The idea is to give wrecks the same sorting than ships, into 5 classes, for the overview settings :

Frigate wreck
Destroyer wreck
Cruiser wreck
Battlecruiser wreck
Battleship wreck

This would make salvageing jobs a lot easier because I think a lot of people just skip lowest wreck and concentrate on BC/BS wrecks for the most part.

You would just have to check the wrecks you want to salvage to appear on the overview so you wouldn't have to think like "Ok an Angel Crusher wreck, now what size is this...".

This wouldn't change the way salvaging works, it'd just give the option for salvager to either salvage them all, or just select which ones they want to focus on.

What do you think ?

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Swiftstrike1
Swiftstrike Incorporated
#2 - 2013-05-20 11:36:37 UTC
I'm not sure how many people "skip the smaller wrecks" when salvaging, but I certainly like to prioritise larger wrecks when looting the field after a fight. The simple logic behind it being that larger player ships drop more loot than smaller player ships because they have more modules, larger cargo bays and often a higher chance of being shiny fit.

I think perhaps a better way of doing this would be to change the icons for wrecks à la NPC ship icons. (small, medium, large wreck icons). That said, development priority goes to things that are broken or unbalanced and this is not one of those things. Would be a nice embellishment of the existing UI, but a very low priority one.

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Ziester
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-05-20 12:21:01 UTC
Swiftstrike1 wrote:
I'm not sure how many people "skip the smaller wrecks" when salvaging, but I certainly like to prioritise larger wrecks when looting the field after a fight. The simple logic behind it being that larger player ships drop more loot than smaller player ships because they have more modules, larger cargo bays and often a higher chance of being shiny fit.

I think perhaps a better way of doing this would be to change the icons for wrecks à la NPC ship icons. (small, medium, large wreck icons). That said, development priority goes to things that are broken or unbalanced and this is not one of those things. Would be a nice embellishment of the existing UI, but a very low priority one.

That would work too, and would actualy required less work on that i suppose.
But yeah it's a low priority idea for sure :)

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Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#4 - 2013-05-20 13:25:08 UTC
You can already sort the wrecks by type. You can sort the whole overview by type. Just add the "Type" column to the overview and then click the header to sort things by what type they are.