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Proposed Simple Change for Drone UI
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EnocHvsEucliD
Kings and Queens of Deadspace
#1 - 2014-03-26 06:04:43 UTC
Why can you ONLY see Drone HP when they are deployed in space?

If a drone takes damage--you bring it back to your bay to save it right?

As the fight continues one must redeploy additional drones but one is UNABLE to determine drone health inside one's drone bay--thus blind to which drones are rested and which are not.

Why can we not see drone health inside drone bay?!

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Gabriel Elarik
Celestiel Rams
#2 - 2014-03-26 07:37:07 UTC
agreed i hate it to redeploy my drones if i have the bad luck to chose the damaged one
Petrified
Old and Petrified Syndication
#3 - 2014-03-26 09:25:41 UTC
It would help to have some indication of the damage of a drone it is docked - would be nice info to have

Cloaking is the closest thing to a "Pause Game" button one can get while in space.

Support better localization for the Japanese Community.
Komodo Askold
Strategic Exploration and Development Corp
Silent Company
#4 - 2014-03-26 12:13:13 UTC
Yes, please. Much please. Drone UI in general is in need of a refresh; this would be a great implementation.
Kirluin
#5 - 2014-03-26 14:17:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Kirluin
It's an often requested item. When I introduced some rl friends to eve, it was like the second thing they asked after getting into drones.

I'm guessing the reason this change doesn't get implemented is either a) for whatever reason it's absurdly hard to code or b) there's a camp of developers at CCP who don't want to change things like this incrementally because "the perfect total redesign of it all should happen instead why waste time."

So you end up with the perfect being the enemy of the good, and these warts hang around for years.

To the devs who seem to have gotten the recent dscan improvements in despite this attitude, THANK YOU! l like the continuous improvement method better.
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2014-03-26 14:25:57 UTC
As a stop gap create a 'repair' group and move damaged drones to there whilst they return