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So i noticed some things about the new drone stuff that could really use some changes.

When dragging drones from "drones in bay" folder to "drones in local space" they need to be dragged to the actual "drones in local space" folder, so my question would be is there any way it can be changed so they can be dragged to the empty space below the "drones in local space" folder itself as well ?

Also when dragging drones from "drones in local space" to "drones in bay" is there any way to make it so they can be dragged onto any space below "drones in bay" without placing them in whatever folder the cursor is on?

I think most people would find quick drag and drops to deploy and recall drones to be more useful than recalling and organizing your drones in space into a folder in one click. because right now, 1 wrong click and ya just recalled and placed drones into to the wrong folder, good luck finding and reorganizing those little buggers in the heat of battle once dropped into wrong folder when you meant to just recall them.


Also i noticed some serious lag when deploying and recalling drones. could be for everything not just drones. noticed this during the last big patch i was testing. But it was fixed shortly after tranquility release, so i am not terribly worried about.

Still lag is rather detrimental to the testing process. Would love you long time if it was sorted before hitting tranquility :)

edit : so after more testing holy lag batman.. Maybe i will leave the testing to those with more patience than myself, spent more time waiting for windows to load than i did testing stuff.


keep up the good work ladies and gentleman. 07

I've spent more time waiting for the client to come back from locking up ("not responding") than anything else...

alrighty!

one of the most requested combat based custom formations people are looking for is the 4 probe spread that allows us to probe 2 different places, im glad its possible to make that formation now and save it for later use.

As far as i can tell the resizing anchor points work well and resize both the position and range of the probes well. However one aspect of the custom formations that will become a pain point is getting custom formations to be accurate to not create inconsistencies when changing from large 32AU spreads to 0.5AU spreads.

the way probes appear in the system map screen is the problem. they for the most part appear there in a pre-formed formation as opposed to their 'actual' location in space at the time.

1) So, when setting up a new formation we have to re-collect the probes into 1 place in the system map screen and arrange the probes from there, which can become messy unless u do it from the most zoomed in shortest range perspective, which is less than convenient.

2) the other pain point is that when applying a custom formation, said formation tends to place the probes in the location in system where the custom formation was made, which can be wildly off axis or on the other side of the system to your current location.

both these issues are to do with anchor points.

When launching probes initially we need the probes to be positioned on the system map screen where they currently are, not only for quick orientation but also for a more accurate starting point for custom formations.

Secondly we need the custom formations to anchor initially to the location where the probes were launched, so that when we open the system map screen we dont have to go hunting for phantom probe locations in the heat of the moment.

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last bit is more of a want, but would add so much flexibility and functionality.

allow probes to be grouped in the probe list at the top of the UI window, with the ability to set formations to the group as opposed to the entirety of the probes in space. if this can systematically allow independent control of the movement of these groups of probes (so i can move 1 group of 4 probes without that movement affecting the other group of 4 probes out) that would be the Pièce de résistance

thanks for all your continued hard work! <3

Short update: The lag issues on Singularity are resolved for now.

Are the new Marauder looks out yet? New Paladin model? Golem?

For the new Navy Mindlinks, were they added to ALL racial FW stores?

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They were added to all the FW stores as well as all the LP stores for other corporations belonging to the four major factions. Make sure you have "Show All" selected from the drop down, as you can't technically afford the offer unless you have one of each of the two T2 mindlinks it combines in your hangar.

If you find a store that is missing the navy mindlink offer let me know.

Good to know, just needed that information so that it's quick and painless to update my lpDatabase project. =)

Thanks Fozzie!

Why can't you just group 4 resistances into 1 field? Info would look way better.