Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Actually this is a combination of a couple minor changes I would enjoy to the game.

First, the tactical overlay, say every 3rd or 4th ring, would gain a ring of angle marks. Perhaps with 15 degree spacing or so.
Also 2 new rings that exist on the 2 vertical axis perpendicular to eachother, which also have these marks. Set at a 30 of 50km radius

The reason for this is simple. I've come back to the game after a few months out of it for work. And when I get back I find that my marauder has been edited.
To make up for its relative lack of mobility when flying from gate to gate I've been eyeballing jumps perpendicular to the line between me and the gate. Then making a jump back, and with proper angling, I can drop myself withing 1-2km of the gate, with relative ease.

An addition like this compass would simply make that act easier. I also find that since all ships would have the same "north", it could perhaps be useful to other people doing operations.

Would make figuring out where your other bombers are while cloaked up around a POS a bit easier.

Second edit would be simply make it so that when in tactical overlay, the angle-mark closest to where your ship is facing will light up or something.




A slight edit to the second idea (which might be easier) would be a heading readout box down in your HUD, give out Alpha, Beta, and Gamma angles (each corresponding to the horizontal/northsouth/eastwest axis) so FCs might be able to just tell their fleets to align to a course for a time, rather then most PVP ops being constantly aligned to a celestial.

I dunno though. I'm not much of a PVPer. I'm sure some of the more talented FCs out there could make use of it though.

Better orientation methods and flying for convoluted grid-fu is another possible use.