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Would love to use a container for loading / unloading saved fits.
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The Larold
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#1 - 2016-11-14 14:40:38 UTC  |  Edited by: The Larold
Lack of this feature has really been slowing me down and makes the game less enjoyable.

I have a different container for each of the major activities I do. One of them, for example, is level 4 mission running.
I wish I could use the save / load fits feature, but it always wants to A) unfit modules into my item hanger where a ton of loot already sits, and B) only searches the item hanger, not containers, for modules / equipment to get loaded for the fit.

The problem with A) is now I have to remember everything that might have been unloaded to the item hangar, individually find each one, and move it back to my mission container. This is a huge pain when I have to remember and find up to 5+ mods. Problem with B) is that after loading a fit, a bunch of mods and equipment are missing from my ship because the load feature won't look in my mission container.

It's cumbersome enough that right now, it's not at all worth the hassle created by using the load / save fits feature.

Could we get the ability to load / save fits from/to containers pretty please? (Even if you have to specify the container to dump items to, I'm cool with that.)
Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
#2 - 2016-11-14 17:57:55 UTC
So if you just throw everything in your hangar (no containers) you can strip fittings and all your stuffs goes there AND if you click fit this out on a saved fitting it goes through your hangar, fits your ship and (get this) it tells you any items you couldn't find.

As a gal that has a deep understanding of several facets of the OCD way of life I can assure you, getting this change won't make you happy. Sure sure, for a while everything would be great. A can for every thing and everything in its can.


BUT


one day (and it comes to all of us) you inadvertently initiate the 'repackage all' function. The split second after you click it your brains lets out a primal slow motion screem "NOOOooooOOOOOooooOOOoooo", but it's too late. All that organization is gone. Poof. Over.

You go outside, have a smoke (kill a kitten or something in between those 2 options) and manage to calm down a bit. You have options. Rebuild - hours of work (maybe days if you're really really organized). Smash your computer (OK so maybe 2 smokes/kittens were what the doctor ordered). Deal with the unorganized mess. There is no path to happiness. Hangar clutter is a fact of the game. The real answer would be to remove the 'repackage all' function, but while the OCD pilots rejoiced, the poor slobs stuck repackaging everything on an individual basis would cry out to the forums to get it back.

At least with citadels you get several hangars to dump stuff in AND you get that game breaking super secure space magic to protect it. Life is messy, but good!

(PS - even if you are the one guy that is exact enough to never ever mis-push the repackage all button, CCP will implement a patch/expansion that has something to do with hangars and they will dump everything on your hangar floor during install)
The Larold
This is an anagram of itself.
#3 - 2016-11-14 18:14:04 UTC
Serendipity Lost wrote:
So if you just throw everything in your hangar (no containers) you can strip fittings and all your stuffs goes there AND if you click fit this out on a saved fitting it goes through your hangar, fits your ship and (get this) it tells you any items you couldn't find.

SNIP


I'm not that OCD. It would take me 5-10 minutes tops to put everything back together. Which is just about as long as it takes me to filter through my hangar to find items and get them back to their container every time I try to load a fit.

If this feature wouldn't come anytime soon, perhaps the solution is to treat my Item Hangar as my fitting load / unload area, and make sure I dump all my misc. loot into a dedicated container. Haven't looked to see what the max capacity they hold but I remember it being reasonably large.
Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
#4 - 2016-11-14 18:45:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Serendipity Lost
That's what I've learned to live with.


EDIT ADD: I am that OCD. There was that legendary sunday morning where I sorted the entire corps ships into various SMAs based on some logical rules. When I was done every ship in the WH was easy to find. It was probably 4 years ago that I did it. I still take some flak about it to this day. Big smile
Iain Cariaba
#5 - 2016-11-14 18:59:39 UTC
I'd suggest adding another container, one for the loot you pick up and keep in your hangar. If your hangar only has the modules you're going to be using for fittings, you don't have an issue here.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#6 - 2016-11-14 19:00:26 UTC
Serendipity Lost wrote:
That's what I've learned to live with.


EDIT ADD: I am that OCD. There was that legendary sunday morning where I sorted the entire corps ships into various SMAs based on some logical rules. When I was done every ship in the WH was easy to find. It was probably 4 years ago that I did it. I still take some flak about it to this day. Big smile

I imagine because no one could find their ****Smile

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Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
#7 - 2016-11-14 19:13:12 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Serendipity Lost wrote:
That's what I've learned to live with.


EDIT ADD: I am that OCD. There was that legendary sunday morning where I sorted the entire corps ships into various SMAs based on some logical rules. When I was done every ship in the WH was easy to find. It was probably 4 years ago that I did it. I still take some flak about it to this day. Big smile

I imagine because no one could find their ****Smile



Uh huh. The funny part for me... now.... is that I did it over 2 cups of coffee and was impatiently waiting for the well deserved 'Thank You' sort of stuff when all the doodoo hit the fan.