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How to locate allies
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Mike Hilarious
Regiment Of Naga Association
OnlyFleets.
#1 - 2015-07-08 11:57:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Mike Hilarious
o/ capsullers.

I was thinking that fleet, corp or even alliance should have some feature to know lots of details about its members. Specifically - being able to locate them any given point of time.

Few cases occurred to me recently :
- fleet is travelling and few guys are late or going to join via some other paths,
- dscanning populated space (are those ships hostile?), adding char to ship name - is that reliable and always followed?
- lots of squads in fleet for mining boosts having all squad commanders docked,
- is the booster the best one in the fleet ?
- after running combat sites the hauler never reports a shiny stuff found, we're again unlucky - nothing dropped
etc..


Some of these issues are being solved with too intensive voice communication, some of them not solved at all.
As I haven't found good tool for that so I've at least drafted the one to locate mates and check ship names in order not to mess them on scan (so yes, this is an advertisement). however this is not solving the problem, not too handy to use, and not always up to date as eve api use caching. However it's at least a start.

let's me know if you've seen the website having any of the above issues sorted and I won't need to implement that myself. If you think that kind of informer website makes sense - tell me. (I'd rather appreciate to be able to have that features in-gate)

http://eve-allies.com
Anthar Thebess
#2 - 2015-07-08 12:39:06 UTC
Join fleet , use in game map.

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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#3 - 2015-07-08 13:28:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Rivr Luzade

  • Finding out which fleet members in a fleet is in which system is easy to do with the old map.
  • Finding out who looted what in a fleet is easy as there is a Loot History. If the looter leaves the fleet before they loot, you know who to hunt down as you see them leaving in the Member History.
  • Char names to dscan results? You know, I do not rename my ships just for fun, I rename them because I do not want people to know what I fly with a simple button press. This is the downside of this very powerful intel tool, and it won't be changed.
  • Whether a squad commander is docked or the same system or not is easily visible in the fleet window in the top left corner, where you see either a green check mark or a red cross the the respective state. In addtion, Fleet Commanders, Wing Commanders and Fleet Boss see their location in the Fleet Composition.
  • Whether the booster is the best for the fleet is to be determined by the Fleet Commander (the fleet hierarchy position), Wing Commander or Fleet Boss. They have the ability to see the entire Fleet Composition, which also shows FC/WC/L skill levels. Here, to be fair, it could be argued to also show the Warfare/-Specialist skills as well as Mining leadership skills.

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Iain Cariaba
#4 - 2015-07-08 15:50:51 UTC
Rivr Luzade wrote:
...stuff...

In addition, if you have the proper roles in your corp, you can see the locations of all online members of that corp.
Tabyll Altol
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2015-07-09 14:15:18 UTC
Anthar Thebess wrote:
Join fleet , use in game map.


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