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Soxhlet

Seraphim Unlimited

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#1 - 2011-11-17 21:39:39 UTC | Edited by: Soxhlet

Tagging multiple things-in-space for a fleet is a difficult process involving repeated right clicks to and navigating extended menus for letters and numbers.

It would take a lot of work load off the fleet commander and increase enjoyment if there were key combinations similar to the current "warp to", "dock", and "align to" key commands.

For example: Hold shift+ctrl and click a thing in space: it's tag 0.
Hold shift+ctrl and click another thing in space: it's tag 1.
Hold shift+alt and click something else in space: it's tag A, etc.

Mara Rinn

Cosmic Goo Convertor

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#2 - 2011-11-18 02:57:06 UTC

In that famous fantasy MMO that is rapidly losing subscribers, we used to be able to tag things by mapping symbols to keys. A typical encounter for a Raid Leader (that game's equivalent of a Fleet Commander) would be "John, you're tanking skull, Julie, you're tanking cross, Francis is on diamond and circle." The Raid Leader would be tagging the NPCs by pressing (for example) the numeric keypad 0-9 keys (respectively mapped to skull, cross, circle, triangle, square, diamond, etc).

It would be nice if we could map keys to tags like that!

As an example, mapping mouse-button-4 + 0-9 as tags 0-9.

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Soxhlet Seraphim Unlimited Likes received: 15	#3 - 2011-11-19 16:12:21 UTC I liked that feature on the game-who's-name-escapes-me-right-now.

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CCF10E4E06F4E986D06EFA54 Seraphim Unlimited Likes received: 1	#4 - 2011-11-20 04:03:19 UTC 1 +1

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Pelador Rova No Luck Corp Kenshin Shogunate. Likes received: 63	#5 - 2011-11-20 04:34:51 UTC 1 Well paint two W's on my arse cheeks!!! This could be useful. Seriously, fleet taggings having configurable key binds would be helpful, I think.


Soxhlet Seraphim Unlimited Likes received: 15	#6 - 2011-11-22 21:30:33 UTC bump

NiGhTTraX

Deep Core Mining Inc.

Caldari State

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#7 - 2011-11-22 21:45:09 UTC

How about mapping the tag command to a shortcut and when executing that shortcut on a target a popup appears asking you for the tag. The field could be made so it only accepts 0-9 A-Z (possibly more tag characters in the future? like '#'). This way, instead of breaking your fingers to press a gazillion keys in the same time for target 1 then change a key for tag 2, you could just do something like ctrl-shift click, enter 1 and press enter.

If you're gonna post here thinking your idea is the greatest thing since bacon and that it will save EVE and possibly all humankind with it, you're gonna have a bad time.

Soxhlet

Seraphim Unlimited

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#8 - 2011-11-23 21:12:15 UTC

That's a good idea. I wasn't sure how developed their code was for tagging so I wanted to keep the suggestion simple. I have no idea how involved it is to add additional characters to the tagging. But, in the spirit of speeding up the tagging process I think a sequential tag button for alphabet and numeral characters would probably be most effective by drastically reducing the number of popup windows, clicks, and precision mouse movements necessary to tag.


Soxhlet Seraphim Unlimited Likes received: 15	#9 - 2011-11-26 17:03:37 UTC This is a great feature with little downsides and easy implementation. I'm surprised there isn't more support.

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kyrv State Protectorate Caldari State Likes received: 11	#10 - 2011-11-26 19:21:57 UTC I know quite little but would the ctrl button not function to suspend the windows allowing a right click interface?

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Nalha Saldana Aliastra Gallente Federation Likes received: 902	#11 - 2011-11-26 19:29:16 UTC Fast tagging = sort overview by tags and use them for target calling in fleets \o/


Soxhlet Seraphim Unlimited Likes received: 15	#12 - 2011-11-26 19:41:42 UTC It would definitely speed up target calling Nalha. The current bottleneck seems to be the FC's ability to tag multiple targets.


Soxhlet Seraphim Unlimited Likes received: 15	#13 - 2011-11-29 03:14:37 UTC bump


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CCP Phantom C C P C C P Alliance Likes received: 7,905	#19 - 2011-12-01 13:20:51 UTC 4 I would also recommend posting this idea in CCP Soundwave's thread about 1000 more little things. CCP Soundwave is in constant search for little improvements which will make a much better place. We are not stopping after the Crucible expansion to listen to people, we will continue to listen and to improve EVE! CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer