Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Drone stats
Multi/mass-fit (right click ship stack, fit from saved fittings or something)

can we also label fittings like we label mails and contacts?

This is excellent news. I'm totally sold..... as long as I have the option to download updates from seedy Russian hosting services.

Let me frigging drag and drop a module on another same-slot-type module in the fitting window and they switch places instead of telling me "there is already something in that location".

Yes. Everyone knows that. Ever heard of overheat module spacing?

I'd like the option (with a checkbox) to have my ship renamed to match the fit I'm using. I know you're looking at this from the point of view of someone crafting a unique ship, but please keep in mind those of us who mass produce dozens of ships with the same fit and name, over and over again. We enable our corpmates' gameplay, but it's a pain for it to be such a laborious process.

I've posted this in the Little Things thread, and other places, over the past few months.

I think a good starting point would be see why people use EFT. Here is what I use it for:

1) Fitting ships that a) I do not own, b) with mods that I do not have, and c) skills I have not trained up
2) Allows me to see ship stats (dmg/tank/speed/everything) with various mods on/off/overheated/etc in a simple way that can be compared across the board
3) Takes into account various Implants/drugs/links/etc
4) Takes remote effect modules into account
5) Fits are available for me as a player, across all my chars/accounts
6) Extremely responsive/fast (have you TRIED the new industry UI? soooooooooooo laggy)
7) Retrieves prices from eve-central

Now, in terms of how I would integrate this into the game:
1) Improve the ship stats window to let us see the current ship stats with various mods on/off/overheated/etc. Right now I have to undock to see how much EHP a DC2 adds!
2) Free-form fitting -> eg go to market, right click on a ship, add fitting. drag and drop mods from market or hangar, etc.
3) The UI has to be FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Server round trips are too SLOW and noticeable and this should be done 100% client-side. If you've ever tried clicking through the market window in jita or messing with the industry UI anywhere, you know what I mean. EFT has no fancy effects and it works GREAT.
4) Better fitting management - edit fits in place, share fits with people/corp/alliance
5) 1-click BUY FIT and ASSEMBLE FIT
6) Then deal with getting links/implants/etc working. Tackle the 80% use case first before going after the 20%

things I want to see that I can think of right now.

Drone stats should show up properly.

DPS with different drone groups.

Cap use with various modules active, currently it assumes I just turn everything on, when most of the time I have at least something turned off, I can kinda test this by off lining a module, but with say a MWD and the cap penalty, that is no longer an accurate method.

Better options to refit to/from cargo. with mobile depots, roaming, and various ships you can refit on in space, I find myself swapping fits in and out of my cargo hold.

when dragging a stack of launchers/turrets on to the ship I want to fit them all almost all the time. I usually don't want to fit multiples of most other items though, and usually not rigs either. I'm not sure there is a great way to implement something like this.

easier way to manage weapon groups in the fitting window.

as said the ability to see various mods on/off and how that changes everything else.

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Also an 'unfit all rack' button, which would remove all modules in that rack to the player's chosen destination(1).
Ideally I'd love to be able to drag a group of modules from inventory onto the fitting window and have them behave sensibly, eg drag 4 railguns, an afterburner, two mag stabs, an enam and a pile of antimatter ammo onto a Thorax, have the guns fit, the ammo be loaded and the other mods go into their correct places.

As for the unfit, let us chose where those removed modules/ammo goes, much like the 'output to' dropdown for industry. Sometimes the default of my hanger is not the ideal place (eg a mining barge which has a can in it's cargo hold for part-used crystals)

I do not know if this has been suggested in the last eight pages, but what about showing the actual change a module does after Stacking Penalty.
This would be especially handy for Hardeners for example to show how many % of resist the module actually gives in total with all stacking penalties taken into account.
This allows to easily see how effective your build in Modules are and if it makes sense at all to fit them.

Please, give us more space to store fittings!
200 personal is not enough.

right now when I choose a saved fit for a ship and press FIT button then fitting manager is searching for modules rigs and ammo etc in my hangar
it would be nice to have the option to define different sources for those modules rigs etc
like a station container, or a corp hangar division
would help people that like to keep things organized in their hangar
and people that fit lots of ships for their corp