Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Thank you for that, by the way.

A couple of the small things I'd like to thank you (and the greater CCP) for are the little audio cue that have fairly recently been added. Specifically the ore hold full 'ding'.

One of my fellow Unistas jokingly said, "the first time I heard it I damn near [had to scoop out my drawers]. I thought I had been podded while looking at a spreadsheet." (quote edited for content)

It gave me an idea, though, and one I thought I'd pass on after shopping it around other Unistas for feedback.

Something which I feel would add valuable content to the game, and fits in nicely with the Upwell developments in Citadels and other structures, is a small deployable passive threat-detection sensor array. I had the idea when I first heard the above-mentioned audio cue, and there is a real-world parallel currently in use along the US-Canada border.

The idea is, you have a deployable about the same size and dimensions (volume) as a Mobile Depot. It doesn't store anything. It has no combat value. It's easy to blow up, but not overly expensive to replace. However, it ties into your ship's sensor and communications arrays and provides an audio cue.

That's all it does. It creates an audio cue.

However, what it creates the audio cue for is what's important.

It has two settings: war targets, and criminals. You set it for the one, or the other.

You deploy it in a system, like a choke point, set it for which detection you're looking for, and then you leave. You're able to receive from it to a maximum range determined by your 'Remote Sensing' skill.

Then, if that selected type of threat enters the system (or perhaps the maximum scan range in AU of the deployable) it sends an audio cue. Maybe an alarm, or a tone. It also doesn't tell you if they're docked up, or in space. It just emits the tone when they're there. One tone for the YES/NO value of "is this thing present?"

That's it.

It doesn't tell you where it came from if you have more than one deployed. Just that one of your beacons, somewhere, has detected a threat (if you have more than one deployed).

Applications:

• AFK Mining
• Hi-Sec PVP
• Trap Baiting
• Perimeter Defense in Sov-Null

The deployable is just as easy to scan down as a mobile depot, can be destroyed, etc.

The Pirate faction version of this device should have the added benefit of being able to enter the name of a specific character, and if that character's ship signature enters the scan radius, it emits the audio cue. This is specifically for bounty-hunting.

I'm open to feedback.

Done. Reposted it here.

Thanks for the response.
When placing an advanced buy order, the mouse cursor is indeed in the value field, but the value itself is not selected; hence, if I write something, it starts writing after the last decimal digit (which is useless).

Auto - Pilot looping being able to set AP loop for your ship to follow until server kick the bucket for that day.

I would like to see a visual representation of your fighters health, other than just a red tick that can not differentiate between 1% and 99% damaged.

You have to hove over the icon to see how damaged they are, and if you have set the tooltip delay down because you don't enjoy having them popup all the time over stuff you are trying to click, you can not readily see the fighter health.

Even a simple bar graph next to the fighter icon would be an improvement.

thanks for everything karkur!
I was going to ask for the ability to bind "look at my ship"
Then I noticed that alt-1 for the tactical overlay already recenters view on my ship♥

Add comma's to the calculator so we can see the orders of magnitude easier (Should probably be configurable to , or . for people across the pond). It's really hard to tell the difference between 1 billion and 10 billion right now .

To expand on that, having a resize-able calculator with a history would be amazing. Something like the Windows 10 calculator if you need inspiration.

Sensor Overlay Pop-up

Just have a option in the drop down UI menu to lock this from popping up on rollover. Id like my tooltips the speed they are but once set I have almost no need on most characters to change this option. Yet rolling over will pop it up at very frequent intervals at the worst times.

Thanx.

Suggestion: planetary infrastracture templates creator and allow to use PI templates
Keywords: pi, planetary infrastracture
Note: don't need Simcity 10118 but doing the same all the time is a bit a pain in the ....

Suggestion: Better AI for determining orbit routes and/or the ability to alter the orbit trajectory
Keywords: ship flight path

Notes: Too often I will be doing a combat anom and warp in at my chosen distance, drop my MTU, and orbit it at something like 30-50km or so.. but then I realize (once or twice way too late) that the path my ship's orbit takes it on runs directly through a near maze of obstacles thus negating the reason for my orbit.. a speed tank.. or movement in general.
It is extremely frustrating to lose ships this way. Some more control over orbit paths, CCPlease