Test Server Feedback

A few things I've noticed with the March 22 update.

1. When I take control of my Keepstar, I cannot activate damage modules like Standup AXL Missile Launcher. The message I get is "01:47:53 Notify Your ship is realigning its magnetic field, please wait a moment." even after many minutes. Isn't that the typical message for the undocking invulnerability? I can activate ewar and neuts and web without issue. Scram gives me "02:07:29 Notify You cannot activate Standup Warp Scrambler I whilst invulnerable."
2. Fighters deployed by a character controlling a Citadel do not show up as purple for fleet members, including for the deploying character itself..
3. Could be user error, but I cannot get bombs to launch from Heavy Fighters. I go through the targeting UI, but the bombs don't launch. The bomb button is then blinking, and if I try again I get this message "01:53:38 Notify Cannot activate the Ametat II Launch bomb ability again as it is already active."
4. I'm unable to zoom the view of the Ship Hangar when in capital ships, so they appear overstuffed.
5. When the station services is set skinny enough, the "View Outside Structure" label word-wraps on top of the "Station Services" label.
6. When I select launched fighters via the fighter UI, there's no indication in space which fighter I have selected. When I click on a fighter in space, or from the overview, there's no selection of it in the fighter UI.
7. Targeting range of Citadels is, graphically, represented as the distance from the center point of the Citadel. However, the overview range and the range checked for module activation seem to be from the tether ring of the Citadel.

And I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE how the line drawn for overview items to the plane of one's ship is now curved such that it shows actual distance to that item. Don't ever ever ever change that please. The Homeworld-style targeting UI does not follow this paradigm, however. It's set-straight-out from center of ship, the set-straight-up/down from that distance. It should follow the curve of the sphere - as in, first set distance out, then set where on the sphere at that distance. It also would be nice to somehow be able to rotate the camera view with the targeting UI active - it's difficult to tell just what I'm pointing at otherwise.

I'm also a big fan of the red indication of optimal and falloff ranges for weapons.

Posting our corp feedback after interacting with astraus and fortizar type of citadels:

1) Anchoring and deploying

After we launched the citadels from fleet hangar / freighter we had issues in moving it and rotating on the grid, most of the time we have been unable to move / rotate it and instead we moved the camera. Intuitively, we used the left and right mouse button on the citadel wireframe, as you did with pos structures in the past.

The undocking direction was not clear when we anchored; on our first deployment try, we faced a fortizar in very bad undocking direction (opposite of all system gates), and we found out we cannot change the direction of it once the anchoring order was given, nor once it was fully operational. Considering the decommission timer of 7 days, I would love to see some arrows on the wireframe of the citadel indicating the general undocking direction and / or the option to rotate it once operational. The latter maybe with a long cool down.

2) Fitting the citadel

It was not specified you had to sit in the driver seat to start the fitting process, but it was rather intuitive. The corpmate with the structure skills proceeded then to equip missile launchers, a couple of energy neut and a point defense in the high slots. The point defense module didn't active as intended stating the safety measure prevented it from activating, we didn't test however what would happen turning the security off (red).
We tested webbing, scrambling, neut, repulsion and tractor beam. The last two are not yet implemented, they did activate but nothing happened, the other modules performed their intended role.
We then tried to activate some services. The refinery couldn't be equipped while the cloning bay didn't turn on, as expected as they are not implemented.
We equipped the market and proceeded to turn it on. The service appeared in the citadel management tool, but not inside the citadel. We tried to make a market order, the corp mate commanding the citadel had not trading skills, and the item even it was at the same station required marketing I to be placed on sale; The error message he got was with his skill was limited to placing orders only the station. Once the order was placed it appeared on my sell orders, but it could not be found anywhere on the market. Either we didn't set properly the market authorizations or I don't know, I admit it was not very clear what we had to do, probably adding it to the market module description or in the ingame guide would be for the best.
From what we discovered the only way to turn off / on a service is by commanding the structure, maybe adding the option to the citadel management tool for directors to turn services on and off would be a good idea, since you don't need any skill for activating them and powergrid / cpu of the citadel is not affected by any skills.

3) Fighters
We did a bit of fighter testing, mainly hitting stationary targets. I really felt the lack of an "approach and orbit" command or a "keep at range", this coming from homeworld where i could have a fighter squadron following the battleship group. So far once you activate your weapons, the fighter slowboat (unless you use mwd or other tools) to it.
The fighters required no skill to operate, but that's probably something it's going to be fixed in later builds I guess.
It is no clear how many fighters are needed to make a full squadron until you load them.
For the rest the system seemed pretty solid.

4) Others
The citadel min zoom in is still too far in our opinion.

Hope it helps, we will update the more we test.

Si currently you can't refit a citadel of it is damaged now this makes a lot of sense. However you also can't refit dieing reinforce between fights I think this needs to be a possibility to let defenders react to an aggressors fleet and of course allow for the offending fleet to try to put think a defender who now has 24hrs to refit and reorganize.


Basically being able to refit the citadel will greatly enhance the meta game involved in such sieges

this also affect highsec citadels. just anchored one and it has some armor damage cant repair it because of this weird timer

Moon locking is going away

-Did you activate the missiles? I am trying to get the antisubcap missiles seeded
-These are not actually implemented yet
-I will look into this. If a Citadel is not vulnerable then you can't shoot it, but the fighters you should be able to I think

1. Will raise with team.
2. I think I have already raised this with the team but honestly can't remember so will do it again.

1. Will take a look as this is the second report I am reading of the missiles not working.
2. I will take a look
3. Will raise this with appropriate team
4. Capitals should be the same func as currently on TQ, supers and titans should not be able to move the camera at all in their hangar
5. Will raise this with appropriate team
6. I will take a look at this.

Number two is currently how pos work of you launch probes outside the ff you can fly back in and continue


And with not being able to tether unmanned ships why is that (doesn't really bother me) currently I can put up a small pos and leave a capital just sitting there if I choose

They will not be allowed.

We have just not implemented the restrictions yet.