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FC tools, lets make leading easier
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E man Industries
SeaChell Productions
#1 - 2012-01-31 20:38:14 UTC  |  Edited by: E man Industries
FC's drive eve and lead us to people to shoot!
they work hard and drive the game forward, without them eve would be a shadow of what it is.

Lets help our FC's amd make FC'ing easier!

What tools would help FC's manage and lead a fleet?

1)Better summary of fleet compistion
2)Better Summary of fleet members locations
3)Better system of managing scouts
4)better intel tracking tools
5)better maps(everyone does have a print out of dotlan sitting next to them right?)
6)less prep work needed(eg FC's need huge amounts of tacticle warp in's)

How can we implement and design these tools into eve...What other things would make FC's lives easier and more fun?

Please give your idea's
E man Industries
SeaChell Productions
#2 - 2012-01-31 20:43:01 UTC
Some specific idea's

-FC's often ask for x's in fleet, some better system of couting these may be nice...rather than counting alright I have 15x, 5bc's, 1 logi, a tackle, and 9 noobships.

A better Map that looks sort of like the dot lan maps showing all systems within 3 jumps of him. All fleet mebers show up so He can keep track of where his scouts are. Scouts can label his map.

Ability to warp to tacticles without a book mark(warp to 300km from a gate)

Please add yours.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-01-31 20:43:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Abdiel Kavash
Agreed with 1, I would love a screen that would just say "in this fleet, 52 Maelstroms, 14 Scimitars, 3 Vultures, 6 Huginns, 4 Rifters, 1 Hyperion". [edit] With automatic updates as people go down in a fire. [/edit]

I would like the ability to warp the entire fleet be decoupled from the in-game Fleet Commander position. Quite often the person actually leading the fleet doesn't have the skills or the right ship to give out boosts. Maybe simply allow the fleet boss to warp fleet as well as the FC.

As for the others, I'm not quite sure what you mean...

Also, wrong forum.
Jill Xelitras
Xeltec services
#4 - 2012-01-31 21:14:41 UTC
OP, your efforts have merit.

I lack the experience to give an informed opinion.

Here are my thoughts:
- small fast ships like Dramiels can reduce the number of fixed Bookmarks you need. Any solution that would allow you to place BMs on the spot, would give your enemy the same advantage. Not sure if that would be helpful.

- new FCs often struggle with identifying ships. You hear a name and are rather clueless as to what shipclass it belongs to.

- new FCs often have little clue what a certain ship usually can do in terms of range, damage ...

What would be nice is to have a graph of more common fits ... I guess that's more a task for us players as it is for CCP. (CCP just wouldn't do it well enough imo.)

Don't anger the forum gods.

ISD Buldath:

> I Saw, I came, I Frowned, I locked, I posted, and I left.
Serene Repose
#5 - 2012-01-31 21:18:31 UTC
Wire fleet member's seats with about 100 volts. Give the FC a remote.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
E man Industries
SeaChell Productions
#6 - 2012-01-31 21:40:24 UTC
Serene Repose wrote:
Wire fleet member's seats with about 100 volts. Give the FC a remote.

You talk over me one more time and zap!!!!!
You fail jump!!!Zap
Why are you 10km off the gate? zapp!
Why don't you have a point fit! ZAP! ZAP ZAP

Could be fun.
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-01-31 21:56:29 UTC
(a) button to make all fleet members in range of the gate jump
(b) button to activate all fleet members' primary weapons on the broadcasted target.

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Skyla Alight
Helion Production Labs
Independent Operators Consortium
#8 - 2012-01-31 22:07:29 UTC
I'm a fail FC but the ability to set a fleet destination and route would be awesome.
Rixiu
PonyTek
#9 - 2012-01-31 22:07:35 UTC
Vera Algaert wrote:
(a) button to make all fleet members in range of the gate jump
(b) button to activate all fleet members' primary weapons on the broadcasted target.

THIS! 20 000 years into the future and the weapon systems still aren't remote controlled? We have that today for gods sake! People are so annoying when they aren't shooting the primary and are ruining the game for us that can actually listen! Please fix CCP!

...had to do it...

On a serious note though, OPs suggestion do have merit, especially the fleet composition/summary/location part need to be improved, it's already there just ... bad...
Alara IonStorm
#10 - 2012-01-31 22:28:59 UTC
Vera Algaert wrote:
(a) button to make all fleet members in range of the gate jump
(b) button to activate all fleet members' primary weapons on the broadcasted target.

(c) Make codebreaker modules much more dangerous...

New orders everyone, move out of jump range and primary our Logi.
Joelleaveek
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-01-31 22:35:22 UTC
Vera Algaert wrote:
(a) button to make all fleet members in range of the gate jump
(b) button to activate all fleet members' primary weapons on the broadcasted target.


This would lead to huge fleets controlled by one person on one machine. One man incrusion fleet anyone?
Alara IonStorm
#12 - 2012-01-31 22:45:26 UTC
Joelleaveek wrote:
Vera Algaert wrote:
(a) button to make all fleet members in range of the gate jump
(b) button to activate all fleet members' primary weapons on the broadcasted target.

This would lead to huge fleets controlled by one person on one machine. One man incrusion fleet anyone?

So like an RTS basically.

I give it 2 Weeks before Null Sec is owned by South Korea.
E man Industries
SeaChell Productions
#13 - 2012-02-01 02:45:40 UTC
FCing in eve is like playing an RTS...just your units don't listen.

Plus he was joking..I hope.

I have only FC'd a few times and it was actually quite frustrating learning where everyone was and keeping track of it. An upside of better tools is not only less FC burnout but more people becoming FC's.
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#14 - 2012-02-01 02:53:00 UTC
Just give me control of the guns on all my fleet members ships please.
rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#15 - 2012-02-01 03:06:17 UTC
Seconding having control of all the people's guns under you as a FC, As well as all SP they gain during the battle goes to me as well. Also if anyone calls my members while I am leading them, all those phone calls are redirected to my cell phone.

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