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The Drone UI Thread
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Innately Awesome
Princess Luna Personal Battalion
#1 - 2013-08-21 09:19:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Innately Awesome
The problem
Drones control interface is years behind other modules.

How are other modules superior?
Example: with your guns you have a very intuitive and helpful graphical representation of optimal range in tactical overlay. Just hover over the gun to see both optimal range and falloff. In case you don't like tactical overlay, another tiny window shows up with detailed information on range, damage type and even damage per second.

Another example: you can rearrange your guns any way you want it and you will still be able to stick them to a hot key.

How are drones behind?
Drones do not have any of the above.

To find out the optimal range you have to scoop them, right click one of them, go into attributes and keep scrolling until you find it. If you don't scoop them, the bonuses from mods will not be applied to the information window.

You can rearrange drones in groups, but you can not assign hotkeys to these groups neither for launching drones into space nor for firing at the target. You also are unable to assign a hotkey to any specific group to cease fire/return.

How do we fix this?
This is the list of actual proposals. Please comment on the thread and offer your thoughts!

  • Fix the information window
  • Add drones optimal/falloff to tactical overlay (see below)
  • Add drones information to the on hover window
  • Add the ability to assign existing hotkeys to groups
  • Add the ability to launch groups into space with hotkeys


Possible issues
Adding drones optimal/falloff to tactical overlay may not be possible since tactical overlay is centered on the ship and drones fly separately. A possible workaround would be to draw spheres around drones, maybe calculating average position of the group and drawing the sphere around it.

List of other threads with ideas
[Mockup] Radial Drone Ui
Drone UI mockup
Improved Drone UI/Playability ideas
Cael Autumn
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-08-21 12:02:48 UTC
You seriously had to whore your own thread for this, and then linked my work of actually making a mockup?

There is no content in your post that wouldn't function as a comment on my thread.

http://i.imgur.com/BvtYhF9.png <-- the mockup.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=271146 <--- the thread.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-08-21 12:30:41 UTC
One, two, FAIGHT!

Big smile

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

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Innately Awesome
Princess Luna Personal Battalion
#4 - 2013-08-21 14:52:35 UTC
Cael Autumn wrote:
You seriously had to ***** your own thread for this, and then linked my work of actually making a mockup?

There is no content in your post that wouldn't function as a comment on my thread.

http://i.imgur.com/BvtYhF9.png <-- the mockup.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=271146 <--- the thread.


Please don't be hasty with insults. Your thread is titled Radial Drone UI. It is a suggestion on its own and I was trying to make a more general thread for drone UI improvements where the first post will be constantly updated to keep up with all the ideas that people post here regarding the drones UI. It is probably even better to keep discussions of specific suggestions to their threads as this way they are easier to navigate for the devs who will be reading separate threads instead of spaghetti.