Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Suggestion: Add 'Open Customs office' and 'Warp to customs office' buttons to Planetary Colonies window
Keywords: UI, PI
Note: Add a buttons to warp to the Customs office and open the customs office to each line in the Planetary colonies window. This will reduce clicking and right menu manipulation.

Suggestion: Limit mining ships in starter systems
Keywords: Mining, NPE, Starter Systems
Note: I had a chance recently to try the new NPE, but when they building missions come up all the belts in the system (and in 2 of the adjacent systems) had been mined out. This is not a great experience. To make sure that the NPE missions can be completed in a timely fashion limit mining in the Starter system to Ventures and frigates. This will not stop the new players but it will stop all those players that send in large barge/exhumer fleets into the starter systems. You could them increase the ore amount in the starter systems.

Suggestion: Allow drag and drop route creation in PI
Keywords: UI, PI
Note: Currently when routing items in PI facilities, I then have to click 'create route' (or double click in SOME places) then click on the destination then hit OK. It would be some much easier to be able to drag and drop from the source to the destination and for the route to be created, then drag and drop to the next location. Or drag and drop an output from a factory to a storage location. When doing this make sure you do not 'close' the 'source window' so that we can quickly do the next drag and drop.

Suggestion: Depreciate the 'Scan Overlay' and mention the 'Probe Window listing' Instead in the New Player Experience
Keywords: NPE, New Player Experience, Scanning Tutorial, Rookie Help
Note: In the help channel one of the most common questions is 'Where/what/how do I find the Overlay"? . The NPE requires its use, but does not explain it. New players will notice the overlay down the road but will 99% of the time actually use the Probe Window List to find sites - not the overlay. So could this be changed to Probe Window instead of Overlay?

Suggestion: Make The Drag Region Larger For Window Edges
Keywords: Window Sizing, UI
Comment: I usually end up grabbing the bottom corner to resize a window (its bigger) rather than spend fruitless time trying to grab the edge - since it is so narrow I must try repeatedly to find that magic place where the grab icon shows.


This may be an issue for some but not for others, since it may depend on the combination of Mouse resolution (mine is high) and resolution of the client (not so high).

Suggestion: Using Selection Box to Select Targets from the Overview
Keywords: Target Selection, Overview, Selection Box
Comment: if u select the targeting key and drag a box u can currently select objects in space, but in many cases You want more control over what is selected (Especially not selecting your own things like mobile depot, wrecks, etc).

Discussion: you currently cannot drag overview entries so is it possible change the behavior to be able to select multiple entries at one time instead of multiple clicking?

Implementations: Which rely on the games current state where you cannot drag items in the overview.

1. Allow a selection box to be started in space (Just outside the Overview) and then - IF it is dragged into the overview - to start locks on all included entries. [This is likely the hardest to achieve]

And/Or

2. Pressing target key and then clicking an entry on the overview (which will start a target lock as normal) but then allow us to drag the mouse up or down to select the entities above of below as well?

And/Or

3. Allow a 'Select By Type' and/or 'Target By Type'' shortcut key -- Which when used would select all nearby 'same' items (or in direction of drag) up to the target locks available? This would help immensely when salvaging or when Selcting frigates from cruisers (etc) in PvE.

NOTE: I am all for NOT changing the game just because doing something is hard, involved, or can be a 'click fest' since nothing that pays off should be easy - don't want a 'I Am Lazy' button to creep into the game. But on the other hand the above suggestions are for people who play a lot (especially manufacturing and PI) and risk wearing out the mouse with all the clicking involved. I once counted over 400 clicks/dbl clicks just to retool ONE planet in a 45 planet PI Chain. mouse is used in Many applications out side the game too, so mouse wear is a thing to keep in mind - replacing a $10 mouse is one thing, a $80 mouse is something else.

Suggestion: Set the Directional Scanner's distance slider's leftmost value to 0.1 AU
Keywords: UI, Directional Scanner
Comment: Currently the leftmost value is 0 AU, which is equivalent to not doing a scan at all.

Suggestion: Add back the ability to see CPU/Power use in the Fitting window when u select items in the inventory
Keywords: Fitting window, Fitting
Comments: You used to be able to see the effects of a module in the fitting window when u highlight a module in the inventory. This does seem to work in the simulator - but it stopped working when then the simulator is not active and is a very fast way to see if a module will fit as you mouse over them.

Suggestion: Allow PI facilities to be upgraded
Keywords: PI
Notes: Allow PI facilities to be upgraded. Rather than having 4 advanced factories I can have 1 that has been upgraded to level 4. It takes in 4 times the requirements and puts out 4 times the output (or same inputs and outputs just runs 4 times the speed). Same for Storage facilities (and Spaceports) allow them to be upgraded to hold more storage. Less individual facilities on a planet and easier to maintain. Maybe limit the amount of upgrading but this would still be better than the sprawl of the current system.

Suggestion: Ability to sort ships into folders in ship hangar.
Keyword: Ship hangar
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