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because if you fit ships for your alliance and they move staging, repacking the ships to move them destroys rigs, but if you put them in cargo, they can easily be moved and not destroyed

Awsome!!

Rigs to cargohold option and I can die happy ever after :D

Please include the ability to fill the cargo hold of the ship with modules in addition to charges. This seems like it would be simple to implement - you can already do this by importing a fitting with mods in the cargo via the crest appi. Many times people need extra mods in cargo, or items such as rigs, cyno inhibitors, etc. In big alliances, someone has to sit there and manually put everything into the hold of each ship!

It would be a shame for you to make such a great new tool, only to find out that I still need to go through and put mods in the cargo of each one.

Also, the ability to like have it name the ships in a simple sequence, even one that was not customizable, would be awesome.

How about the cargo bay? Can we specify that given extra mods, mobile depot, nanite paste, etc, be in there as well, and with multi-fit?

@ccp_karkur - If you currently use PYFA to write fittings via crest, i am pretty sure it carries over the fittings in cargo and buys them using multi buy and fits them in single fit.

I tried to test on sisi, but it seems sisi oauth is FUBAR and won't let me login to try

Years ago in Fountain, I did a thunderdome in which I handed out a thousand identically fit rifters and we just had an enormous brawl. While it was great fun, the fitting part of it is a large reason why I haven't done it since.

I look forward to doing this again.

Multi-Fit. Please call this feature Multi-Fit. This will be sweet for AT practices.

good question from twitter: does multifit support "rename ship with fitting" that the normal saved fitting window has?

As you've surmised, this is already possible to do. However, it won't be officially supported by CCP, because it'd require a change to another part of the system.

Currently, you can link a fit in-game via Local or another chat room, and anyone can click on that fit and open it. The way the game handles linking fits behind the scenes is to actually boil the fit down into a smaller format called "DNA," then include the DNA string in the metadata of the chat room message. This format, while fairly small, can technically be of an arbitrarily large size. However, chat messages cannot be an arbitrary size; they have a maximum length. As such, linking fits in chat works fine, as long as the fit only has at most its fitted modules and some ammo. Allowing arbitrary cargo to be included in a fit breaks the ability for the fit to be linked in chat, and as such CCP is recalcitrant to support it, officially.

Fixing this would require CCP to normalize in-game stored ship fits in its database, and change how they're displayed, stored, and linked. It's a non-trivial change, and it's understandable why they haven't elected to go through with it.

I guess one thing that would be important to get right: if fitting fails, no modules should be loaded into the failed fit, or at least no rigs should be loaded. This would allow us to clean up easier if the fit fails and not lose money in case we need to repackage the ship.