Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I am in agreement with this. If we are able to warp to player, squad, wing or fleet we should be able to align to them too. We already have this option for for bookmarks and wrecks/cans so it makes no sense not to have it in fleet situations.

I feel this is even more important now that the cloak changes are in. It would mean bomber fleets are still viable whilst offering caution to solo players who may encounter other cloaked vessels.

I would second that this should be fixed.

This.

The issue of fleet leadership being able to align fleet members' ships has been raised more than once in the past.

CCP has already commented on the issue of FCs being able to basically play the game for everyone else and they're not keen on it.

Regardless of CCP's position, this just furthers the ability of fleet leadership to play the game for everyone else in the fleet. Not supported, -1 and get better-trained monkeys if the ones you have now aren't aligning properly.

Yep. +1

This has absolutely nothing to do with ISBoxing.

+1


The tin foiled fedora tippers crying about this can pound sand. This doesn't change ISboxers' abilities from anything they didn't already have. If you don't like ISboxers it's real simple:

Blow up their ships.

What if we also added functions that allowed you to issue navigation orders and activate modules on ships in squad/wing/fleet. I feel it would really streamline the experience and help both FCs and fleet members.

NOPE.

Lets take all responsibility away from people having to do things.... fights some times happen because people mess up aligning. lets take away all possible ways people can mess up .

While your at it why is there not a jump fleet command...

NO

NOPE - no jump fleet command - that's just lame. You have to make your own thread if you wanna advocate that option.

Fights sometimes happen because ppl miss a fleetwarp..... oh wait.....

Aligning ain't as bad as a fleetwarp because it will only propel you in a certain direction at your ships max speed. It won't get you out of immediate danger as a fleetwarp would.

And since there's a Regroup option for fc's anyway what's the harm of allowing a somewhat similar option avaiable for wing and squad commanders?

And don't come back with "taking away responsibility" bs - you still have to warp off yourself. activate guns and other mods.

If you can align your fleet and war it, how long will it take for the next guy to ask why we can't fleet lock already? How long will it take to ask why we can not fleet shoot already after that?

Why don't we actually *play* the game ourselves?

I am all in for tools that make FC'ing easier. being able to put marks in space for one (would integrate nicely into the renewed sensor overlay), but I'm very much against making all players drones of the FC. The FC should have all necessary tools to give command and to make it clear what he wants. But it should be up to the individual player to actually do it.

If you asked if we could put a 32pt big, red warning onto the screen of an individual player if hes not aligned to the designated location the FC has set, then I'd be in. Because in spite of the warning, it would still be up to the individual plaer to comply. But as far as doing thing "for them", i'm pretty much completely against it.

If you just want to control some other units, go play a single player game. There are plenty of them were you can issue commands to your comrades and they'll happily do so.