Player Features and Ideas Discussion

As anyone who has ever had to setup a PI chain knows, there is a very nigh number of mouseclicks involved in setting up planetary colonies.

Over the last 3 days, I've set up multiple alts with all new colonies owing to having recently moved locations, and thought that I would offer some practical suggestions to reduce the volume of clicking whilst maintaining the versatility of PI setup options.

1) When building Command Centres, automatically build them with the highest upgrade level that the character is skilled for.

2) Allow players to shift+click in order to place multiple structures of the same type, without having to re-select the structure.

3) Automatically place a link between the placed structure and the nearest existing structure, retaining the ability to delete a link, excluding command centres.

4) Allow the player to specify if a given storage silo, launchpad or the command centre is made the "default storage" route location for all products from all other structures, whilst retaining the ability to re-route manually.

5) When manually routing, prevent the drop-down window from auto-minimizing after a single route is manually routed. Having option windows automatically refer back to a default entry state just increases mouseclicks needlessly.

Does anyone have other suggestions, or can see problems with what I'm suggesting?

In which case, it should create the popup indicating that there isn't enough isk to pay the contractors, in a similar manner to what happens when you place a new structure and don't have enough funds.

Saved setup templates is probably the most commonly asked for feature.

I'd like the whole current PI setup replaced with the new structure system so that it becomes a planetside 'structure' using the whole fitting system proposed too. This would allow for fittings to be saved and created easily. It would also put the creation of the PI CC's (the structure itself), factories extractors and storage (as modules for the fittings instead) to be player built. Instant new area for manufacturers.

Allow us to CTRL-click structures (especially processors) to group them before setting up production and routes.

Example: I have 4 basic factories which I all want to produce the same product, take the same raw material from the same silo, and dump their product into the same silo. I CTRL-click them all, and go through the process only once, instead of 4 times.

I would prefer this not happen as it would be a waste of ISK if the command center is upgraded higher than needed.

For example, most of my alts have CCU V, but only need that for their factory planets. All other planets use either CCU III or IV to hit their needs.

Otherwise, I like the ideas.