Player Features and Ideas Discussion

TL;DR:

• add to the tactical overlay a representation of ships' speed in the form of speed vectors (a segment originating from the ships of length proportional to speed) well visible at any level of zoom.
• This feature should be an option of the esc menu: de-select to save on client cpu, remove cluttering, ...
• The overview should have a new filter to decide what ships show the speed vector (out of fleet, reds, dramiels only ...) and the segment would be of the same colour as the top corresponding overview colour (fleet/same militia/same corp/etc)

>Original thread in the old forums< - 5 pages of basically thumbs-ups!


When doing a 1v1, I usually 'look at' my target to see what he's doing and anticipate the reaction time. When the numbers grow, I switch the look at between the various enemies, but it becomes impossible after a little number of targets.

Resorting only to the excel style overview, with its lagged and sporadic changes, is not enough, and also the overview is hard to follow when there's more than a handful of ships in the encounter. A graphic overview - in addition to the table - is needed.

Solution: ships show a vector that points in the direction where they're going, of length proportional to the ship's speed: a speed vector. Zoom level does not affect the vector length. This permits, at a glance, to see where everybody's moving to, even if zoomed out. A shortcut key to turn on and off the tactical overlay would be welcome.

Note that in every SCI-FI movie, anime or comic there always is a 3d tactical overview that shows the battle inside the battle deck/command area etc. How is it possible to not have something that cool!?

Possible variants:
- smoke trails. The problem is that smoke trails disappear zooming out, I want this to be visible at large zoom levels to help small gang warfare. The two don't exclude each other anyway! Also, a vector causes much less performance issues.

Possible problems:
- lag
-- server side lag: none. The vector is a client only thing, the client builds it based on info it already gets, no new server coding is needed
-- client side lag: possible. To avoid it completely, add an option under graphics in the esc menu to remove the speed vectors.

- crowded overview: possible. The overview filter should accommodate a new option to extend filters done for the overview to the speed vectors. You could then show or not the speed vectors based on the friendly/unfriendly/in fleet/... status of the ships.

Please support me! I am for small gangs warfare!

Supported. It's really sad that brackets in EVE don't give any kind of indication of direction and speed.

*thumbs up*

If you go on Sisi right now, engine trails indicate this fairly well.

Devs are apparently browsing this forum so.... BUMP

Wondering if this new feature would consume a lot of server or client resources. I mean, asking for a new feature is easy if you don't know whether it'll set their War Against Lag back a year.

Otherwise, yes. Overview needs some sprucing up. It functions. It works. But...it's ugly and in the way most of the time. I find I can't watch all the pretty stuff they've put in the game because I'm too busy staring at the overview list.

Great Idea. I prob wouldn't use it because I prefer the scalar quantities already available in overview, but then again, I have never had the option of vectors



I wish I could get brackets for user-created bookmarks.

"Make it so"