Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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- Group drones prior to undocking

This may have been mentioned, but checking is :effort:

The EHP calculations in the fitting window are generally considered to be a complete joke, as they only take into account your lowest resist, and so the EHP they give you is only relevant if you are flying against a droneless missile boat that knows your fit. A quick fix would be to change this to an even spread of damage, similar to EFT. A more complex fix would be to also include options to tweak the damage type ratios, so you can see the EHP vs lasers, or against the relevant rats you are facing. Further down the wishlist would be an option to drag a unit of ammo onto a window and for it to calculate you EHP vs the damage type ratios that ammo dishes out, for example against Fusion S if you dragged that.

Being able to view the effect of activated modules while docked would be fantastic; but it would be even better if we could also toggle the overheat status on these modules while docked up.

When fitting from saved fittings, being able to select where the components are drawn from would be very useful. Being able to select multiple hulls of the same type and fit them all at once would be incredible. Fiting to a hull that already has rigs results in the rigs being unchanged, and rightly so - however when you have one rig fitted and two empty slots, the empty slots remain empty.

If the fitting tool was made more intelligent, and fitted the relevant rigs in the gaps without removing the fitted rig, that would be great. eg I need to fit shield EM, Thermal and Kinetic rigs to a ship. The hull in question already has an Explosive rig fitted, and two empty slots. Currently, if I press fit, no rigs are attached or removed. Ideally after the iteration of the fitting window, the tool would fit two of the three rigs I wanted to fit, leaving the Explosive rig alone. Likewise if the hull already had a Kinetic rig, it would try to fit the EM and Thermal rig, and it would not try to add a Kinetic rig when one was previously fitted.

Also anything that can reduce the soul-crushing lag each time you change ships or fit one from saved fittings. I fit hundreds of hulls a week, and having to wait three seconds between each action is slowly killing me.

The UI is pretty solid; I'm sure you'll touch it up so that it feels more at home with the rest of the UI (as it currently sticks out like a sore thumb), but the overall layout probably doesn't need overhauling.

For the most part, the fitting window fits my needs, but adding more information about a module's performance like EFT and Pyfa would be excellent.

This turret profile chart is part of a guide I made nearly a year ago. The triangular diagrams are a cross-section of a cone formed by the range of a turret and its radians of tracking. If the cones responded to skills and ammo loaded, I think it would provide a better visual representation of turrets and ammo compared to each other.

For ships with bonuses to guns, this would be a great way to bring out more of their personality..

I'm not sure how informative you're hoping to make the new fitting window, or if you're looking for other types of information to include. One thing that is absent from the game (and EFT / Pyfa) is a practical conversion of radians and range.

Other items conspicuously missing from EVE:

Drone control range
Heat damage mechanics (arrangement)

How would you go around people with loads of windows obscuring the ship when doing the fitting? The mock-up you posted expects us to have no other windows open to do fitting. I feel like this is a step back from a separate pop-up as I can still read things like fleet chat while fitting up the ship versus not seeing anything when doing the fitting.

- one click to group all weapons (+ ability to save that state in saved fittings +the position on modules)
- ability to fit more ships at once with one click from saved fittings (set number then show me list with count of what is missing if something is missing otherwise fit the demanded number of ships)
- switching places for modules, unfitting one then fitting other is too 2014, let us drag and drop, if putting one module on other those will be switched (same ship/hangar/cargo...)
- align time (from 0% to 75%)
- estimated price of hull + fitting
- ability to see stats with activated modules/ability to oh modules in fitting (aka eft) + showing us the results
- ability to "pre-fit" rigs for testing purposes to see the outcome only (aka no need to fit them and then destroy them if i dont like what i see)
- if i hover over fitted item show me all available meta items of same module that i have in hangar + differences in pg/cpu (surplus green/ shortage red) + ability to fit that item immediately(swap it)
- if i hover over item in hangar (weapons mainly) show me the REAL cpu/pgu usage (skills/rigs/implants)
- if i hover over guns show me list of t1/t2 short/med/long range ammo and their "tracking/optimal/falloff/cap usage" without me being forced to load that ammo - maybe make this list customizable so i will set what ammo i want to see


drones (i know you dont like this one since some of it is somehow broken even in space for ages):
- drone control range (skills+fitting)
- sentry drone optimal+falloff/tracking(all drones) +being able to show those stats with omnidirects on/off(+scripts) while fitted
- being able to fit drones into their groups in case i created some before +remember settings +fitting from saved fit will put them into their groups



pos fitting (but who knows how poses will look like)? so maybe not

It would be nice to have a way to group/ungroup weapons and change the module hotkey assignments from the fitting window.

Right now when you change from one fit to another, it feels like you have to refit twice: a) docking up and changing the modules, then b) undocking and moving the slots around to put them with the keys you want.

> ... to be able to estimate EHP based on selectable damage type,

A simple way to do something like this would be to make the four damage type icons in the fitting screen on/off selectable, with the rows underneath updating with the corresponding stats. Turn on all four to see omni EHP stats, or just turn on one or two specific damage types to see defense against a hypothetical weapon that only applies that kind of damage.

Let us see our drone control range please! It's really difficult to tell what your range is currently.

Something i really miss is some kind of "light" version of the fitting screen that allow easy and fast refit while in space, actual one takes too much space.
Also would be nice that if you right click in a slot it brings a drop down list of the items in your cargo/hangar that can be fitted and easily swap them.

If you guys could add in more drone stats that would be awesome, Like being able to select a flight and drones in the drone bay and seeing how DPS you will get, things like the Ishtar, Domi and every other ship that has the ability to fit more then to two flights of drones would probably be hella nice. Drone control range would be another thing that I would like to see, also sentry drone falloff/optimal and and general drone alpha would be nice to,


Total fit cost, rather than just the hull cost as it is now. So that way I can happy know I'm throwing a 2 bill isk Tengu into the wind.

EHP verse damage type would be nice to, I think most 3rd party fitting program do this already, but for to be in game would be convenient,


Also please don't make the UI transparent. Or at lease have the option to make it not. Would help for fiddling with the fitting window in space.

+1 for being to see what overheating, and activated mods will do without having to undock though,