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"Unlock all Targets"
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Swiftstrike1
Swiftstrike Incorporated
#1 - 2014-05-26 18:46:02 UTC
This feature would be a very useful button to have in certain situations. It needs 1 caveat though - targets you have moved to a new row/column are not affected.

Example
You are flying logi and the hostile fleet are free firing. As a result you are locking up broadcasts all over the place. You need to free up targets in order to lock the new ones, so you move your cap buddy (if you have one) down 1 row to keep him safe and then hit the "unlock all targets" button.

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Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#2 - 2014-05-26 19:01:08 UTC
Why not?

It'd be convenient and useful.

+1

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Komodo Askold
Strategic Exploration and Development Corp
Silent Company
#3 - 2014-05-26 20:10:23 UTC
Yes please! It would be very useful in any situation.

I suggest you to put it here also: More little things topic. I think it fits there.
Bohneik Itohn
10.K
#4 - 2014-05-26 20:16:23 UTC
YEP!

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w3ak3stl1nk
Hedion University
#5 - 2014-05-26 20:17:36 UTC
I put a similar idea in bad ideas forum. Funny stuff. Guess it not that bad. Clean reset still better

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Gully Alex Foyle
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2014-05-26 20:19:54 UTC
Sure!

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Swiftstrike1
Swiftstrike Incorporated
#7 - 2014-05-26 21:47:50 UTC
Wow, I didn't realise this would strike such a chord. Thanks for the support guys Big smile

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GreenSeed
#8 - 2014-05-26 22:19:35 UTC
been making this suggestion for the better part of the last 4 years, the closest response i got was "no, because bots".

there are a lot of quirks on the EVE ui that are there to make botting easily detected, and discouraged. like the random timer on "ghost" targets dissapearing from the overview, or the random gate target switch when you enter a system and you have a autopilot path set up.

im not saying a "drop all targets" key wouldn't be a good addition. i would love to see it, specially for logistics work. all im saying is, think of the bigger picture.
Arya Regnar
Darwins Right Hand
#9 - 2014-05-27 00:09:29 UTC
Wtb self targeting ecm Big smile

I like the idea btw.

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Shivanthar
#10 - 2014-05-27 07:57:00 UTC
I am negative about this idea;

I can ctrl+shift+click ten times (at worst case. 3-4 is more common), much faster than anybody right-click and select "unlock all".

There are really unnecessarily-critical evil menu items in the special menu, sometimes leading unwanted consequences of removing the npc's I fight from overview that cannot be undone immediately in a heat of fight. Another critical decision to put there? No.

Ctrl+Shift+Click. Click-click-click-click 4 are gone already, within a timeframe of blinking eye.

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Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#11 - 2014-05-27 12:52:48 UTC
+1 from a Logi Pilot who often has 10 locks up!

I remapped my shortcut to SHIFT-CLICK as it was quicker but being able to "ring fence" a row and drop all locks outside of it gets a massive "Yes!" from me.

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#12 - 2014-05-27 13:00:34 UTC
Shivanthar wrote:
I am negative about this idea;

I can ctrl+shift+click ten times (at worst case. 3-4 is more common), much faster than anybody right-click and select "unlock all".
Once the option ist there, we ofc expect to have a keyboard shortcut for it.

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Aiyshimin
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#13 - 2014-05-27 13:01:55 UTC
This is awesome, +1
Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#14 - 2014-05-27 13:17:56 UTC
+1'd damn useful for logi.

additionally, can u make it so u can clear a row?
when i am logi in a fleet i put other logi on top row. FC and priority ships on second row then the rest on the bottom row. would be extremely useful if i could clear the bottom row and keep the other two rows locked up.

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