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Fleet hangars and changes to various settings

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CCP Habakuk
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1 - 2012-10-19 11:56:08 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Habakuk
Team Gridlock has been working in the last months mostly on improving server-side parts of the inventory system (and related systems). Many of the changes won't be visible to the player (except that a few old bugs should be gone), but there are a few important changes, which are now on Duality for testing:

Fleet hangars:
Corporation hangars on capital ships and Orcas have been converted into fleet hangars. These fleet hangars have no divisions and corp roles are irrelevant. The size of the fleet hangar is the same as the old corp hangar and all items are moved from the corp hangar to the fleet hangar at deployment of the patch.
The access rules to the ship maintenance bay (SMB) and fleet hangar have also changed:
  • It is always possible to use the fitting service of the SMB of a corp member and a fleet member
  • Corp members can access both the SMB and the fleet hangar with the setting "Allow corp member usage"
  • Fleet members can access both the SMB and the fleet hangar with the setting "Allow fleet member usage"
We discussed these changes with the CSM and we hope that they improve the usability of the fleet hangar and the new access rules should make it much clearer on what is possible when.
Known issue in the build on Duality: The right-click option to open containers in fleet hangars is not doing anything.

Storing the settings for SMB and fleet hangars on the server:
The above mentioned settings for SMB and fleet hangars are now stored on the server and they stay always on the ship (as long as it is not repackaged). It is no longer necessary to re-configure the ship after a jump or after a relog. Be careful when boarding a ship from your corp mate or similar - it will be using the settings, which he set.

Storing the forcefield password of ships on the server
Forcefield passwords are now stored on the server. But: We are currently working on another iteration of this to improve the consistency. Please do not send bugreports about this yet. ;)

Storing the "lock items" setting for audit log containers on the server
The "lock items" setting on audit log containers is no longer a personal setting, but it is stored on the server and applying to all users. The new default setting is "unlocked". In corporation hangars the role "Config Equipment" is needed to change the setting (assuming no password is set).

Please reply here, if you find any bugs or other problems, which we might have missed. The changes should also be covered in a DevBlog later, but I have no idea yet on when it will be ready.

edit: Please check out this post from CCP Greyscale about further changes

CCP Habakuk | EVE Quality Assurance | Team Five 0 | (Team Gridlock)

Bug reporting | Mass Testing
Cedric deBouilard
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-10-19 12:40:42 UTC
CCP Habakuk wrote:
Storing the settings for SMB and fleet hangars on the server:
The above mentioned settings for SMB and fleet hangars are now stored on the server and they stay always on the ship (as long as it is not repackaged). It is no longer necessary to re-configure the ship after a jump or after a relog. Be careful when boarding a ship from your corp mate or similar - it will be using the settings, which he set.

Storing the forcefield password of ships on the server
Forcefield passwords are now stored on the server. But: We are currently working on another iteration of this to improve the consistency. Please do not send bugreports about this yet. ;)

Storing the "lock items" setting for audit log containers on the server
The "lock items" setting on audit log containers is no longer a personal setting, but it is stored on the server and applying to all users. The new default setting is "unlocked". In corporation hangars the role "Configure .


First, and finally.
You know how long carrier pilots prayed for this, don't you? :)
Lord Haur
Star Frontiers
Brotherhood of Spacers
#3 - 2012-10-19 14:12:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Lord Haur
Those divisons on the carrier hangers were kinda useful btw.

Edit: A Question.
Quote:
The access rules to the ship maintenance bay (SMB) and fleet hangar have also changed:
• It is always possible to use the fitting service of the SMB of a corp member and a fleet member
• Corp members can access both the SMB and the fleet hangar with the setting "Allow corp member usage"
• Fleet members can access both the SMB and the fleet hangar with the setting "Allow fleet member usage"

Will corp/fleet members be able to dump stuff in the SMB/hanger if the "allow corp/fleet member usage" option is NOT checked?
Marrakech Olivia Minter
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-10-19 14:13:10 UTC
CCP Habakuk wrote:

Storing the "lock items" setting for audit log containers on the server
The "lock items" setting on audit log containers is no longer a personal setting, but it is stored on the server and applying to all users. The new default setting is "unlocked". In corporation hangars the role "Config Equipment" is needed to change the setting (assuming no password is set)..


Oh thank ****, I got so tired of forgetting that all my **** was locked by default every time I bought a new station warehouse.
Griznatch
Distinguished Gentleman's Boating Club
Domain Research and Mining Inst.
#5 - 2012-10-19 14:21:24 UTC
Lord Haur wrote:
Those divisons on the carrier hangers were kinda useful btw.


qft

I used to have a clever sig but I lost it.
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#6 - 2012-10-19 14:28:52 UTC
CCP Habakuk wrote:

Corporation hangars on capital ships and Orcas have been converted into fleet hangars. These fleet hangars have no divisions and corp roles are irrelevant. The size of the fleet hangar is the same as the old corp hangar and all items are moved from the corp hangar to the fleet hangar at deployment of the patch.


This is going to be annoying as heck for those of us who used the different divisions within the corp hangar bay for organization. If you're going to do this, then we need more sizes of the General Freight Containers.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1961318#post1961318

Right now, all we have for useful work is the 120k m3 GFC, which is too large to help us organize a corp hangar. And "secure" containers like the GSC are either overkill (we don't need the auditing or secure nature) or too small for the purpose.
vidax
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-10-19 14:39:09 UTC
"These fleet hangars have no divisions" Are you kidding me CCP? Its the only way I had, to organise the 100s of items carriers have to carry.
Ingen Kerr
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-10-19 14:44:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Ingen Kerr
The only problem I foresee in killing the "let fleet members refit" checkbox is because of the limited of number of ships that refit off of any given ship at once (10 for carriers and supers, 2 for titans for some reason), when ships get clumped up nobody can refit. Currently, you can sometimes hamfist your way through the problem by having people cycle their refit off and on. That's no longer an option, obviously, if refit is permanently enabled for fleet members and corp mates.

Killing hangar divisions and tying access to the same checkbox as the SMB has at least this issue: I want to let my fleet/corp mate take a dictor from my SMB. I don't want him taking an officer smartbomb out of my hangar.
Aprudena Gist
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-10-19 14:57:46 UTC
Hanger divisions are super useful for titans and motherships as they are not allowed to dock and have to carrys tons of **** with them but i Guess they have to use containers now or something stupid like that. Can you introduce a Container that is 10,000m3 then?
FinalFlash84
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-10-19 15:00:43 UTC
CCP Habakuk wrote:

  • It is always possible to use the fitting service of the SMB of a corp member and a fleet member


Does this mean that there won't be the "too many people" issue/feature for using the fitting service?
Ketplunk
Glory-Hole
#11 - 2012-10-19 15:07:11 UTC
Add divisions to Ship Maintenance Arrays while you're at it...
Kais Fiddler
Perkone
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-10-19 15:19:32 UTC
It would be very useful to retain the hanger divisions in some fashion. Keeping them and being able to name them with titles such as "Fuel" or "Tank Mods" would be very handy for cap pilots.
Rascal deJascal
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2012-10-19 15:20:12 UTC
I guess this also means that items in the fleet hangars can now be scanned.
Theodore Calliente
Doomheim
#14 - 2012-10-19 15:20:56 UTC
This is cool and all, but when will we get actually useful ****....

ya know, like organizational options that don't suck ass?


here's an idea:

Stack-able physical containers with no bonus storage for physical item sorting

Folders for visual-only organization.
Chirality Tisteloin
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2012-10-19 15:24:05 UTC
Actually. Customizable divisions (folder-like) would be really useful in each and every container (Hangars...)

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Tshaowdyne Dvorak
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2012-10-19 15:34:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Tshaowdyne Dvorak
What I want to know is if you've considered the ramifications of passwords being stored with the ship as far as contract sales go. Sometimes the rigs on a ship are pretty expensive and people choose to sell them via contracts so as not to lose that value in the sale. Will adding a ship to a contract scrub its forcefield password?

Also, can it be unset in case someone has to eject from a ship? Say that my corp wants to fleet up and kick some sleeper butt, but one guy doesn't have a Guardian to fly. I'd like to lend him one, but I don't want him in my POS. Does setting a password on a ship open me up to security problems like this? In this vein, what about when a ship accidentally gets bumped from a POS? Now a new pilot can hop into it and not only steal the ship (as currently works) but everything in the POS?

I really think this is a bad idea. It seems like there's all sorts of possibly unexpected ways to break into otherwise secure POSes under the current system and steal everything in them.

Why not set this up so that the password goes with the character, instead of a ship? You could even make it clever, like an "implant" that acts as an ident chip. Someone could give you a chip for their POS that they've set up (maybe you add another bay to the POS, like the stront and fuel bays where you can load and encode ident chips). That also gives players something new to manufacture and sell that's of value (maybe even make it take some component that acts as an ISK sink to help combat inflation). Then just permit the POS owner to deactivate old access chips (like changing passwords works now). If they can set a password on the chips (just like you'd set a password on a secure container) and make them burn out if the wrong password is entered three times, then a POS is still secure even if the chips are stolen.
Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#17 - 2012-10-19 15:34:27 UTC
Its a start, at least you're looking at it.

Give us the ability to have up to a certain number of divisions, for cha and sma, allow us to rename them, and allow us to allow access on a checkbox by checkbox basis.
Wibla
Tactical Narcotics Team
#18 - 2012-10-19 15:37:15 UTC
1. Separate access options for SMB and Fleet hangar
2. Do not remove divisions from the fleet hangar.
Indeterminacy
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#19 - 2012-10-19 16:08:07 UTC
Wibla wrote:
1. Separate access options for SMB and Fleet hangar
2. Do not remove divisions from the fleet hangar.


I disagree. The current mechanism being tested is simpler. Simpler = better IMO.
Styth spiting
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2012-10-19 16:08:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Styth spiting
" These fleet hangars have no divisions and corp roles are irrelevant."

Wait, so now there is no way to sort/order items between different divisions? Seriously this is 1/2 the reason the corp hangers on the Orca were so great, since there has yet to be any type of container of a descent size to use for this. This just seems like a ridiculous change.

So now when trying to find mining crystals in the orca, or sorting ship fittings (one division for ammo, crystals, drones, one for mods, 1 for ore, etc) we will be stuck with one large blog crap view?

Personally I do quite a bit of PI each day, and I'm sure others like me use these divisions to separate the daily PI needed on my factory planets. So now we will have to sort out all our daily PI into the orca, and then again sort it all out again at each POCO, otherwise deal with making 5 trips from POCO to station. I also do simular things with my manufacturing items / bpo's and finished goods. Instead of being able to sort out all my manufacturing materials I will now need to do this 2 times wit the loss of the divisions. And the same goes with market orders. Items being bought / sold on specific planets now require an additional step. Now these additional step might not sound like alot of time, but it really is. We're talking an extra several minutes of time (per POCO, station trip, manufacturing trip) with ALOT of chances of screw ups.

And most important of all, will these bays be scannable by other players and or police? I'm kind of suprised that one of the most important features of an Orca that could very well be changed wasn't brought up.

If this is true then this is just a terrible update. The ability for players to take items from an orca (instead of just jet canning the items they need, thus not allowing them access to EVERYTHING) if they are in your fleet is far less useful then what divisions and had to offer.
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