Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It would be nice but you know app. how long it takes your ship to go through most systems give or take warp time. I just don't see why we have to waste cpu on something you can do roughly in your head.

Hmm this would be nice as long as the calculations aren't done on the server. Its just some simple arithmetic, so the amount of cpu used would likely be trivial.

All of the information (ship warp speed, ship agility, ship subwarp speed, system size) is already known to you. There's no reason you couldn't write a program to calculate your ETA yourself, I don't see a reason to waste dev time on it.

It might be nice to be built in, but how about if you write a website that can do it first. Then, if the site gets used a ton and there's a clear demand, CCP can write it straight into the game. And if it turns out to just be you using it, you're the only one that wasted effort on it (and the rest of us aren't upset about seeing CCP waste time on some eyecandy that's not really that important).

This actually seems like the ideal solution to me. The IGB has some API features that would allow exactly this tool to function properly, and has been pointed out, while simple overall, there is a lot of stuff to factor in. It's not that it's complex, but simply that there's a lot to calculate and it would be time consuming to think it all through. Once done, though, it would be a relatively easy thing to calculate, especially if we ignore capacitor (most ships can make most warps without issue, with non-brand-new-noob-skills), and just focus on align, accel, warp, decel.

Going with it as an IGB app, instead of a CCP-built feature, would also allow you to have a toggle between whether to assume warps to 15km or jump-on-contact, since I know I'm not the only one that will set an autopilot just to make it easy to quickly navigate long trips, even when I'm at the controls and warping to zero.

So yeah, CCP, don't waste your time on this, while it's a cool feature that would provide a useful metric to see, it can be relatively easily, and better implemented, as an IGB application that pulls your autopilot waypoints via API.

What the hell guys do you still have Pentium I ? A thing like this would calculate it in a couple of milliseconds like the above poster said.



You also need to know the distance. Each system has a different size, for example if I wanna go from Jita to Amarr, yes I know how many AU's are from me to Perimeter gate but, I don't know how many AUs are between Perimeter to Urlen, from Urlen to Sirppala, Sirppala to Inaro and so on.

Also when I arrive at 15km from a gate, my ship won't instantly go at it's top speed, but it will accelerate.


Hmm come to think of it, maybe this could eat a bit of CPU. We could have an option to turn it on or off if it does.

Lot of effort for nothing really. You should be able to work this out in your head. Time one jump multiply it and use it as an estimate, hardley rocket science.

First off, its *E*TA as in 'estimated'. Given your ships stats, you could figure out 1. how long to go from 0 to warp 2. how long to travel 15km after warp. Put those together, multiply by number of systems. Maybe add a few seconds per system for time in warp (which is trivial).



With all due respect, you have absolutely no concept of computers or the quote tag.


P.S. Did you ever wonder about the phrase "with all due respect" ? I mean, the perceived amount of respect due is determined by the person saying it, right? So depending on their opinion of the person they were talking too...

Thanke you for the link :)