Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have been thinking about this some more, specifically the point I commented on above; #4 about renaming ammunition.

This would drastically change how the inventory is sorted in your hanger as well. It seems like it would still be for the better but just wanted to raise that point and maybe talk about it.

With the way ammo is organized it would still be regular ammo followed by faction ammo. Assuming you sorted your inventory by type. Sorted by name we would get the desired result of EMP L followed by all of its variations. Faction ammo is kind of considered to be a different type though and so would still be segmented when sorting by type...

Hmmm this needs some thinking. Maybe if this is done right we can get rid of those damn stupid market categories (advanced, faction, standard ammo) and go with something like what we do with faction modules.

By whom? Faction EMP ammo usually has the exact same ratio of different damage types and range modifiers as non-faction EMP ammo, for instance. Thus, it would always be used in exactly the same situations as non-faction EMP ammo, against the same types of opponents. There is no obvious practical reason to consider it as a "different type" of ammo instead of just a fancier variation of the same type. I don't see why any actual combat pilots would think of it in such a way, or appreciate it being sorted as a different type.


Yeah, it would just be one folder, not 3+.

If you're worried about clutter, then just add a few checkbox filters over to the left side of the market window that say things like "basic T1" "T2" "Faction" "Deadspace" "Meta 1-4" etc. Checking "T2" will show ALL T2 items anywhere in any market folder. Unchecking it will hide all of them. So if you know what you want, you just click a couple times, and then browse everything in a nice compact layout that only shows the tech level you are looking for for all products. If you don't know what you want, click click, and it shows the full lists of everything, which, when sorted by TYPE, will easily be interpretable as variations of a single module or ammo type.

(note: any "named" modules should also be changed to begin with the same standard prefix. For instance, there shouldnt be any items with names like "Extra propulsory modifying coil" or whatever, if they are in reality just a meta level afterburner. ALL versions of afterburners should begin with the same, standard unique term "afterburner, [blah blah]" such that ALL variations are listed together)

By whom? The system behind the scenes... it is really dumb and I don't understand.

another thing that it would help is when looking for ammo in the market, there isnt any way to pull up all the small projectile ammos. For hybrids, you can type "charge s" and it comes up with all variants of small t1 hybrid ammo incuding faction, but because projectiles are fleet emp s, fleet fusion s, etc, you cant do that

this happens to me 100% of the time i select dock and alt tab before i land at station. it never happens if i keep the docking char on screen. distance is irrelevant as far as ive seen.

Bump for all points.