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[Rubicon] Mass moving in Fleets

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CCP karkur
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1 - 2013-10-23 16:24:22 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP karkur
Hi all

I've recently been working on some fleet changes and those changes should be in the newest Sisi build. I want to use this thread to collect feedback on those changes and if you encounter bugs or something, please let me know! Smile

In Retribution, I added the ability to drag people around in fleet to move them (as explained in this old devblog)
When I was working on those changes, I really wanted to also add the ability to multi move people to make it easier to manage large fleets, but that was way out of scope then. But now I have made those changes Smile

In my devblog thread and in a thread I started here in the test forum (as well as on Twitter), FCs that manage large fleets asked for the ability to load up stored fleet setups so they wouldn't need to type in the names over and over, so I've added that, although it's in a bit simple and limited form.

Details:

Load fleet setup:

  • A new option, "Store Fleet setup", has been added in the header menu of the fleet window. Any member of the fleet has access to that option
  • A new option, "Load Fleet Setup", has been added to the menu for fleet bosses/commanders
  • When storing a fleet setup, each Wing has to have a unique name, but the squads can be unnamed
  • When loading up the fleet setup, we use the wings that already exist if they have the same name, and add squads to them if needed. We never delete or rename a squad, only add them (as long there is space for it).
  • If you try to load up a fleet setup and some squads or wings are not added, you get a message telling you which wings/squads were not added.
  • the fleet setups are stored on the server, per character
  • the stored fleet setup is just the number of wings/squads with names, we don't store who is in each wing or anything to do with the characters
  • currently it's not possible to delete a fleet setup, but I should add that soon


Other things

  • the fleet comp window will now display what ships docked pilots are in
  • the fleet comp window now lists which wing/squad each member is in, and the list can be sorted by that column.


Multi moving

  • Any character listing (from chat, contactlist, fleet, guestlist, etc), can be dragged to multi add/move people in squad
  • it's now possible to multi select from the fleet comp, and move people in the fleet by dragging them onto squads/wings (edit: this is now fixed)
  • it's now possible to multi add people to the watchlist. The limit is still 15, so if you try to drag more to it, some will not be added
  • multi moving never makes anyone a commander... for that you need a single move
  • When multi moving people into a squad/wing, only one window refresh should be triggered, and some minor changes I made should result in fewer window refreshes.



More details on multi moving
(excuse the formatting, this is supposed to be a few levels of lists, just imagine the indentation P)
Quote:
Squad Member Cell

• Dragging X characters onto a squad member
o Invites non-members to the squad (if space available)
o Moves members to the squad (if space available)
o If not all characters were moved/invited, you are told which ones weren't **

• Dragging 1 character onto a squad member
o Invites non-members to the squad (if space available)
o Moves members to the squad (if space available)
o If moving/inviting fails, you get info on what happened


Quote:
Squad Commander Cell

• Dragging X characters onto a squad commander
o Invites non-members to the squad (if space available)
o Moves members to the squad (if space available)
o None of the characters is made a squad commander
o If not all characters were moved/invited, you are told which ones weren't **

• Dragging 1 character onto a squad commander
o If no squad commander:
- Invites / moves character to that squad as squad commander
o If squad commander exists:
- Invites / moves character to that squad
o If moving/inviting fails, you get info on what happened


Quote:
Wing Commander Cell

• Dragging X characters onto wing commander
o Invites non-members to a squad in the wing (if space available)
o Moves members to a squad in the wing (if space available)... if they are already in the wing, nothing happens
o None of the characters is made wing commander
o If not all characters were moved/invited, you are told which ones weren't **

• Dragging 1 character onto a wing commander
o If no wing commander:
- Invites / moves character to be wing commander
o If wing commander exists
- Invites/moves member to a squad in the wing (if space available)... if he’s already in the wing, nothing happens
o If moving/inviting fails, you get info on what happened


Quote:
Fleet Commander Cell

• Dragging X characters onto fleet commander
o Invites non-members to the fleet (if space available)
o nothing happens for members

• Dragging 1 character onto fleet commander
o If no fleet commander:
- invite/move character into the fleet commander position
o if fleet commander
- nothing happens


** but might not get full details as there might be many reasons

CCP karkur | Programmer | Team Five 0 | @CCP_karkur
Sala Cameron
Hoover Inc.
Snuffed Out
#2 - 2013-10-23 16:29:58 UTC
I APPROVE THIS PRODUCT
Jasmine Assasin
The Holy Rollers
#3 - 2013-10-23 16:32:36 UTC
Sala Cameron wrote:
I APPROVE THIS PRODUCT


+1
CCP Fozzie
C C P
C C P Alliance
#4 - 2013-10-23 16:37:56 UTC
CCP karkur in another amazing changes nonshocker.

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tgl3
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-10-23 16:39:51 UTC
Awesome!
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#6 - 2013-10-23 16:46:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Bienator II
awesome usability improvements. Is the compare tool button also coming?

edit: found it, it is already on the test server - awesome

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Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#7 - 2013-10-23 16:47:38 UTC
This is nice stuff Big smile

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Citizen of Solitude
Saeka Tyr
Sanctuary of Shadows
#8 - 2013-10-23 16:47:56 UTC
Nice! Will have to test that...

In the spirit of improving fleet management there's two things folks would like to see. Could you tell us the feasibility of them?

* Jumping from watchlist.

Blackops and titans can be added to watchlists, but when they open the bridge you have to click on the ship itself in space/overview. This is annoying and can be error prone. Using the watchlist would solve this but is not currently possible.

* Fleet bookmarks

It would be amazing if a commander could load up one of your stored fleets, and have a set of fleet-specific bookmarks.

No more wasting time messing with bookmarks. Everybody has the same thing - because the FC already set it up, and saved it.

That would, quite simply, be epic for fleets.
Heimdallofasgard
Ministry of Furious Retribution
Insidious.
#9 - 2013-10-23 16:50:16 UTC
AMAZING STUFF!!!
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-10-23 16:57:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Abdiel Kavash
Could we save a "fleet setup" as a default?

E.g. I have Fleet Command 3. I would like to, as a default, create a fleet with 3 wings, each of which has 5 squads, and make myself the fleet commander. Ideally, every time I start a fleet, I'd like it to be set up like this.
Kismeteer
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#11 - 2013-10-23 17:04:46 UTC
Will wing commanders finally get bonuses?
Hendrick Tallardar
Doomheim
#12 - 2013-10-23 17:10:34 UTC
I love everything about this.
Toshiro Ozuwara
Perkone
#13 - 2013-10-23 17:16:11 UTC
Please fix the watchlist functionality. These changes you've made are nice for FCs, but what would benefit everyone in the fleet would be having full functionality when clicking on people in the watchlist.

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Callic Veratar
#14 - 2013-10-23 17:22:39 UTC
When I read the title I was secretly hoping for ship mass to affect the warp speed of fleets, but this is also excellent.
Destoya
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
#15 - 2013-10-23 17:53:23 UTC
Awesome feature, really appreciate the effort
Kismeteer
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#16 - 2013-10-23 18:15:08 UTC
So I thought about this over lunch. We know the fleet system is crap. We know it's broken. We know people are used to it. But what if fleets could have a new 'mode' that people can turn on, similar to free mode. Manual guys can continue to operate as before.

Automatic fleets - You automatically take a place at the top of the fleet, making as many squads/wings as you have skills for.

During this mode, squad and wing warps are disabled. This is the main reason people hand pick wing commanders, generally, so a spy can't take over.

You can click a button to reorganize a fleet to automatically put people into wing/squad positions based on their skills and bonuses. Command ships -> wing commanders; favored ships for squad commanders that are more likely to live and be in system, so avoids interceptors/frigates/scouts.

At any point, you can reorganize the fleet again, or turn off automatic mode.

Difficulty involved is completely unknown, I constantly hear about the poor state of affairs in CCP code, but that doesn't make me more happy to hear.
Automatically creating squad/wings to your level -- *should* be easy
Reogranizing - Maybe difficult since I don't know how easy it is to send 55 commands to fleet to move people after viewing the composition list
Disable wing/squad - New flag, so most likely difficult.

Unhappy with what the automatic thing did? well, flip back to manual, reorg a bit, and you're happy. What is normally a 5 minute process of getting squad commanders, yelling at your dudes to take spots, etc, becomes easy. Small gangs are easier, huge fleets are easy, if things go horribly wrong, you're boned, but hopefully it's on your FC's head, and not on the individual members who don't know how to do fleets anyway.

Want to start getting fancy? Name wings based on what bonuses they might get. If they're in a Claymore, maybe say 'Skirmish bonuses'. Or, go down to the module level on those guys and see what they're running, with or without mindlink. Or start doing automatic shuffles as people leave and/or join. Then again, people might get stuck on gates etc.
Daenna Chrysi
Omega Foundry Unit
Southern Legion Alliance
#17 - 2013-10-23 19:00:58 UTC
how hard would it be, to make it possible to export all fleet log files?
Siddicus
Nation of Sidd
#18 - 2013-10-23 19:03:08 UTC
Is it possible to also have the motd be saved?
As an incursion runner/FC this would be of more significant help than just the fleet squads/wings
Berluth Luthian
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2013-10-23 19:37:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Berluth Luthian
You should be able to drag a person, wing, or squad from your fleet window, and drop them onto a target on your overview making them warp there at zero.
Gods Smight
Gold Rush Mining Inc.
#20 - 2013-10-23 19:59:35 UTC
Sweet! So do I get some credit for this idea?

#238

#283 Posted: 2012.01.16 03:12
Thanks, the improvement to the watchlist is much needed. I'd still like to see the fleet window recieve some treatment. Drag and drop would be bawlsome. Being able to move various fleet members into and out of squads, wings etc would make things a lot easier. Perhaps even dragging them into the fleet from the icon in the chat window. Thanks.
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