Ships & Modules

A superb work as always Gripen. I've posted a few times with the following suggestions, but not seen a response about it so I'll just renew them.

1) Sorting of ships into the faction tab, for applicable ship classes. Notably frigates, cruisers and battleships are starting to get quite extensive pirate & navy ships. Particularly frigates, we have 4 navy frigs, plus 5 pirate frigs, then the Venture and now SoE frig.

2) Sorting of fittings within EFT to keep desired fittings near the top, or group similar fits (such as mission runners, saving their different tank builds. ie: Angel tank, Blood Raider & Sansha Nation, and Guristas & Serpentis is 3 different tank builds.)

I know it's possible to do it by editting the .cfg files in Setup folder, however each time I've tried, my eft suffers errors. And twice I've actually had to totally remove eft, and restore a backup, because of fatal errors that totally screwed up the program.

3) Cargo bay information. the new deployable mobile equipment (Depot, cyno inhibitor, tractor array); and ice products regardless of whether a module is fit that uses it.

Mobiles into cargo bay would be a great benefit for prior planning, and the ice information is useful since its quite frequent an industrial (and not specifically the Miasmos) will be carting isotopes, liquid ozone, or strontium around for a ship in need.

Gripen, you truly are a legend +1

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Thanks and sorry but I can't answer every suggestion since most of such answers would be either "makes sense, adding to to-do list" (or "already planned") or "I don't think it's necessary" and I doubt many people interested in technical details or prioritization reasons while explaining them takes time (omg I'm talking like CCP now ). For some rare cases where I don't understand purpose or use case behind suggestion I ask for details but most are pretty straightforward.

1) Makes sense but low in priority and little bit more complex than it seems: in EFT items assigned metagroups automatically according to faction\officer keywords in their names (and ships don't have those) because when I implemented such separation there was no such thing in EVE (iirc).
2) This has been requested few times and I'd like to make it possible but can't came up with a suitable UI: you can't drag and drop items in dropdown list to change their order, adding "move up" and "move down" menu items to setup menu would be inconvenient to use and their function may not be very clear for average user. Creating entire new separate window with all setups shown as plain list with drag and drop support seems to be too much effort for such purpose. I have one idea but it depends on another feature which needs to be finished.
3) New deployables were added in latest release. Ice could be added easily to context menu but I don't want to overbloat it. Proper way would be to list it on the fitting panel and make it possible to add items to cargohold from there but once again it's a bit more complex and not that high in priority.

Thank you for providing this nice tool and keep it updated.

Fair enough mate. You do awesome work, I just resubmit requests now and then just in case you didn't see it in the first place. Never know when a gem gets missed that could have made for an awesome update. You've noticed them, I've done my job of trying to catch your eye. Whether you ever include, is your call. I'll be enjoying the update the work you've put in.

What are you using where having a drop down like control where items can be dragged up or down to change the order is not a possibility, either as something that already exists, sub-classing the existing control, or as a new control (would provide the best opportunity for nice effects, but more work)?

Thanks again, you complete me :-)

MD

Maybe this is not an EFT but an EVE client problem:

When i want to import setups of my "All Fittings.xml" into my german EVE client, the import fails. When i switch to english language the import is successful.

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