Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There a bunch of things that are rather annoying about how modules work.

1) Module lag - the activation circle on your computer bears only a passing relation to the one on the servers. This leads right into

2) Heating lag - because the activation times dont match up, its a crap shoot on if you can get your next cycle to heat, or to stop heating. This could be fixed by fixing 1) or by letting us heat and unheat modules mid cycle

3) Cant heat while cloaked and/or jumping a gate resets heat state. When you jump into a gatecamp, you want to heat your mwd to get back to gate. Sometimes you want to jump in and immediately heat dps on someone who you are blobbing. Because of 1) and 2), you sometimes can, sometimes cannot. Allowing us to heat modules while cloaked (and take drugs while cloaked), would fix this, even if 1) and 2) remain unfixed. It would also be nice if nanite repairs were prorated for the time spent repairing before you jump, instead of just ending as if you never tried to repair anything.

4) Ammo is not ordered. Rename ammo so it is named like "EMP L, Republic Fleet" or "Scourge, Fury" and then order ammo in the weapon loading lists alphabetically. This will group missiles by damage type, hybrids by ammo type (instead of having Shadow Antimatter and Caldari Navy Antimatter in entirely different places in the list), etc.

5) If you want to load a new ammo after finishing the current group, you have to either pause on 1 shot left, or reload twice or fiddle with autoreload settings. Allow queueing up of reloading by letting us tell the gun to reload while it is firing, and making that understood as "empty this current clip, and then load the selected ammo." Lasers should reload after the current cycle. Lasers in particular suffer from reloading + the module desync since instead of being able to swap ammo instantly, it often takes 1-2 seconds (which is slower than instant)

6) When you toggle a module off, you cant tell it to toggle on until the cycle finishes. Because of 1) this often means your module turns off for a few seconds. Allow us to tell a module that is red (ie, it will shut off after the current cycle) "No, i actually want you to stay on, go back to green."

7) Nanite repair indicator. The flashing while circle doesnt tell you how long it is going to take, or if it is going to work at all. Guns in particular sometimes just refuse to repair, or say they are repairing when they are done. I believe this has something to do with the fact that guns with different heat damage can be grouped together and repaired as one.


2), 3) and 6) all really are caused by 1), but they can each be fixed independently. I presume 1) is hard to fix (even if it would be a really worthwhile thing to spend time on), which is why I listed them separately.

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I support this whole heartedly, maybe your UI teams time would be better spent making sure the basic functions of flying your ship actually functions properly instead of makeing squares into circles.

Also, I'd like to add the really annoying bug where when you select the dock option on a station, you will warp to it and sometimes you will dock, sometimes you will not.

I would also like to mention that sometimes the problem with the module lag is so bad, it is almost an entire cycle off. Meaning when I tell an active mod to deactivate, I have to wait almost another full cycles worth of time before I can reactivate (or do anything with it) because the green bar makes almost another entire cycle for no reason.

Whats particularly annoying about it is when I have to leave my computer for whatever reason, and I select dock. It auto warps to the station and docks, (some times however, it just warps and you sit there on 0 with the station)

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Also, allowing turrets/launchers to resume firing after an auto reload.

Good points. Hopefully we will see these addressed soon!

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CRAP CRAP CRAP!

Why must people point me to threads about this kind of thing. Better yet why must you people make so much sense. ARG!

FINE! Be that way. No really, I never really noticed this before but now it is really hurting my brain.

While I cannot of course comment on when, or if, this will ever be done, I can tell you it is hurting my brain. Thanks for that by the way.

OCD can be a pain, but I gotta say, I'm very thankful for yours (even if I also pity you for it, occasionally). :D