Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This idea is simple, and basically impossible to poo-poo (or is saying that bad luck?) Give me/us an option somewhere to go back to the character selection screen in game, so I can change characters on one account without quitting the game. Simple as that.

:/. Even the POS that is STO has this, but I suppose..... fixing the launcher + closing one client crashes another take priority.

That is a shame :/ I will say with the launcher issues I have, not to mention the one client closing crashes another, its way more than 15 seconds. I respect that decision, but to me it seems..... lazy. Like they don't care enough about our 15 seconds. Oh well, the game is still good.

Fair enough. I know next to nothing about stackless python, so I'll take your word. Oh well, I guess I'll tolerate it. Hey, for once a thread in F & I is getting poo-pooed for technical reasons and not cause it's a bad idea :).

Hahaha... actually a lot of things around here are like that.

- No line-of-sight mechanics (vastly increases the amount of processing the server has to do)
- All objects, even ships, are seen as "spheres" by the server (reduces complexity and makes things easier to calculate)
- The 1 hz "tick" of the server (allows for battles between large numbers of players that would utterly melt the servers in other games along with relatively stability and "equal play" between all players regardless of their connection type or physical place in the world)
- All calculations are done server-side for "security reasons" (the client is just an I/O interface with pretty graphics)
- Packaged ships and items do not have individual IDs... they are just numbers (to reduce database clutter and save space)
- Certain warfare link bonuses are system-wide rather than on-grid only due to the coding structure of fleets and bonuses (apparently it fries computers with the amount of "checks" it has to do when set for on-grid only)
- Grids (what you can see on your overview) are by default set to 250km boxes in order to reduce the amount of "checks" the server needs to run (to reduce calculations)... unless a player "expands" the grid using cans or wrecks.


Some of the above MAY change if there is some groundbreaking coding that has been implemented (or some DEV has finally "untangled" the code)... but work under the assumption that they won't change unless CCP says otherwise.

In programming it's all about laziness, something in programming is called dependencies vs redundancy. Redundancy which would be making lots of code just for this little tiny change is always a big mistake, it means trying to account for has meny different scenario possible, dependencies is the way to go has long has they are modeled efficiently and in a elegant manner, it means reusing some of your code to do different things there forth needing less documentation, less complexity, so on.

It takes closer to 30 seconds to switch a character. If you have multiple accounts doing manu or PI you can be averaging half a dozen switches a day.

3 minutes each day switching characters
1.5 hours each month switching characters
18 hours each year switching characters

Numbers can be tricky like that. They love to stack up over time. If you switch characters twice a day on average you've still wasted 30 minutes each month and 6 hours each year.

Also, INB4L.

I'm paying them for two accounts. I can say whatever the **** I want about how they are. Anyway, if I pay them, they ought to make it as good an experience as possible for me, and everyone else who plays. Nobody can say this would be an unwelcome feature. I mean, ******* STO lets you do it!