Player Features and Ideas Discussion

OK, so conversely are you happy that I can set my production and research going, set an alarm then come back when that's done?
What about my PI?

Not to mention, there already IS a timer, you just have to use it from out of the game in a web browser. I think red frog do one too.

Manufacturing is dead easy to manage. I can hit "get jobs" and get a list of all my jobs, with the exact date and time they will be ready for delivery. I can sort by those values. If I run multiple characters, I can even set them up in a corp, and view the entire queue for all of time. I run a high sec industry corp consisting of 9 pilots, and I do that alongside my null sec playing. It's in no way difficult to manage.

They have made it a passive activity though. Like you rightly said, freighting is boring. It's incredibly soul destroying to sit and watch a freighter align 20 times in a row. I try to keep myself busy on other characters, managing market orders and such, but you still have to keep an eye on this incredibly slow ship slowly rotating towards the next gate, hoping to god you don't get bumped (which people like to do just to be a ****).
And sure, there's calculators available out of game, but adding it in game wouldn't be a difficult task, would be more accurate, and could be used by all with no additional links and sites required.


Modules generally have a short time between, and are usually indicated by the module. Cloaks are not, but probably should have an icon at least to say when they are available. Bomb launchers really need a timer, because when you're in tidi, it can be like 20 minutes before you can fire again, so some kind of readiness indicator would be good. I've not actually sued the MJD so I don;t know what kind of indications it gives you but I imagine it's like cloak, so could probably do with a "ready" icon.
Extractors in PI do have a timer. They tell you the current cycle time and the time until the end of the last cycle.

If you can't see the value in coordinating fleet ops over jumps and synchronizing arrival times, I dont know what to tell you.

What about advance warning of systems in the middle of the route with tidi active, for example?



There's much more value to this than just helping the universes delivery men.

None of what you mentioned is autopilot / AFK gameplay.

But they already do exactly this.
Out of game calculators tell you the time you need to come back.
This is just a way of making it so that everyone in game gets the same benefit, rather than just the people who know where to look.

And I don;t think they could make it more interesting, at most they could do like minigames and stuff. Once WiS is looked at, you could do walking around the freighter which would be interesting, but that's likely to happen never.

So instead, accept that it's a passive task and treat it as such.

Personally I have to watch my freighter since I have to ship at least a few billion at a time, so I'd not really see the benefit, but I'd know it's there if I needed it.