Player Features and Ideas Discussion

From a RP perspective the ship computer should be able to do much more. For example:

- I can see in the overview empty wrecks and not-empty wrecks. It must be the work of the ship's computer. Can someone program an MTU to pull only full wrecks? With 2 options: pull all wrecks, pull only full wrecks. Maybe add a T2 or faction MTU that can do that.

- I want to be able to enter my desired orbit into a text box, up to 300km.

- The ship's computer should be able to shoot targets in order, with no extra commands if it is instructed to do so (checkbox), also it should not stop shooting if it has to reload and it has ammo in bay (another checkbox for this). Does it really need the intervention of the captain to press "reload" and "shoot again" ? What kind of an advanced ship is that.

- The ship computer should be able to repeat a directional scan every X seconds. This could be skill or ship related. Again, this very advanced jump drive civilization can't program the computer, so the captain needs to press the button everytime?

- I want to be able to see my orbit (at least in case of static objects) as a circle in space, and set it exactly as I want it. For example, I am moving in a line along an object, that is to my side, then I select "Orbit at current", then the ship can even turn around or go upwards, instead of slowly getting into an orbit tangent to the line.

Also I want to be able to make the local chat to not show blues. The fact that the chat window does not fit my screen and I can't see the whole local - should not be an issue in a 2015 space game. From RP perspective - the ship (or pod) computer knows who's in system (by some mysterious means), but can't sort blue from red?

Go away very ancient player that played since EVE was played with sticks and stones and no computer, and it was "uphill both ways", I want these things.

There is not one single original idea in this entire post. Thread should be locked as super-redundant.

The above is what I sent in the report to ISD to have this thread locked. Have a good day.

These responses are so sour

Personally I think a few of them are great ideas

D-scan should be automatic, every X seconds. Or even in real time, just like the Overview.

That, along with some other tweaks, and then we can REMOVE LOCAL and have one less spreadsheet on our screen, as well as get rid of the free-intel poison that is local+killboards.

The rest of OP is -1

You want these things, and the bittervets don't and many of us have reasons beyond just "no" and "redundant, rule 17'd, INB5 lock."

Many of these are things which the lore says should be possible. The problem is they then need to have a very strong flavor change to eve (much more automation of combat functions, which I am deadset against) for the couple of okay and one good idea in the batch (More options for knowing exactly what your ship is doing when using the game managed piloting is the good one)

There is definitely a faction of players that will oppose even the simplest QoL changes to EVE vehemently. Most of them will site 'balance', a few will claim hardware limitations.

MTU could use a few settings to be slightly more user friendly. For instance, switching them to pull furthest wreck rather than closest would allow them to be deployed in groups. Alternately they could come in a variety, perhaps some with less range but more tractors. For my purposes I don't care if they pull full or empty wrecks so long as there is an easily salvageable ball when I get back. To handle your need some low or mid slot modules to increase tractor range on a ship to something useful would be nice.

I sympathize with the gun thing. It was one of my favorite things about drones that I could concentrate on running tractors and salvagers in my Dominix, before the AI decided drones were just super tastey. I could see allowing it through the auto-targeting modules, I don't see the point in disallowing it as you still need a lock to fire.

Dscan... Is just a poor mechanic. Supposedly it's like it is because the server load from all ships requesting that data automatically all the time would kill the hamsters, but I really doubt it. If it was for balance (aka make ganking easier) that's a huge load of BS. Overview should be showing anything detectable with Dscan, what you choose to monitor is your business. This should not be two seperate systems. Whoever thought it was a good idea to manually press a scan every 5 seconds for basic info of what's in space around you should be flayed and dipped in lemon juice.

Visual representation and ability to alter course seems like something that should have happened long ago, especially in the absence of manual pilot controls. Your orbit controls are in place already, but some simple preset courses other than orbit would be useful, such as the ever popular spiral into range.

Local chat only showing blues is completely logical, but also going to be strongly opposed by the ganking elite around here. They don't like that ships don't sit still to be blown up as it is. Never mind that IFF was literally the second thing after plain radar was developed. It would be kind of a priority, even to immortal space gods. The gap between PvE ships and PvP ships and the nature of the relationship between PvE and PvP needs to be looked into badly.

Lore reason:
It is short range passive scan vs. long range active scan. That the two systems are different is part of redundancy and avoiding clutter.

Mechanics reason:
Overview shows a single grid. Grids large enough to contain everything on D-scan would melt the servers, or push tidi everywhere. Also, it would make the game world feel massively smaller.

There is also a faction of players with limited scope to see what happens when everything becomes quick and easy.



Which is exactly why they dont. If groups of these worked together well, they would completely eclipse the Noctis. This would be that 'balance' thing everyone tries to explain to you. If you want it done passively then do it with an MTU, if you want it done quickly and efficiently use a Noctis.

AFK gunnery is not going to happen without FoF missile like changes for obvious reasons.

D-scan has a lot more range than a grid, and whats on grid can shoot you. Being able to passively monitor the area before you can be engaged is bad for obvious reasons. Being able to actively monitor is a different story.

Local chat only showing corp or fleet is fine. But it should not show hostiles or anything that you can manually set. its bad for the above reasons. Learn to gather intel and work with other players to maximise effectiveness.

Plotting course could be hella useful though.

you can already manually set orbit up to 1000 km ... dunno how much more you want...