Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I know this has been talked about.
I'd like to bring it back up.

If the Local Chat window is already listing players in an alphabetical order why not give us the option to filter by Corp, Alliance, and Fleet members, and standings.

I'd like to see Local Chat Filters such as but, not limited to:

-All
-Corp
-Alliance
-Fleet
-War Target
-Excellent Standing
-Good Standing
-Neutral Standing
-Bad Standing
-Terrible Standing
-Outlaw
-Wanted

This is a future oriented Game, not having the local channel at all describes us uncivilized for not having the technology to see players in system. I understand Wormholes are a different story. No players in local until spoken is fine by me. And it should be kept like it is. High sec, Low sec and Null sec on the other hand need filtering to minimize lag, boost player searching and improve War and fleet battle strategics.

I hope this makes sense and you'll approve/disapprove and provide feedback.

Max

Expand your point with it being a "broken feature"

Thanks

does the phrase "instant and limitless intel allowing all but dumbnuts and those with chronic diarrhea to escape any and all confrontation when traveling by GTFO'ing the second they see red or neut"?

yes longwinded, but SERIOUSLY, you dont know how MANY times ive been in lowsec, see some guys from a fairly large corp, try and engage them, and they all just warp to their POS from the belts the second they see us in local, and twiddle their thumbs til their corp mates can fly 20 jumps and outnumber my fleet 3 to 1.

local is a BROKEN mechanic allowing players WAY too much safety, by effectively defeating ghuerilla and hit-and-run warfare by alowing hostiles time to see and rspond to aggressors the moment they enter system, then hide until reinforcements arrive.

without local in its current iteration (as in either fixed OR removed) smaller corps would have more chances to scan out, surprise, engage, and destroy members of larger, hostile corps, without giving the alrger corp tiome to just hide until reinforcements arrive.

what we need are PROBES, ok, bear with me here.

PROBES, that only 2 or 3 are needed out at once to scan whole system, can scan roughly every 15 minutes, and takes about 45-60 seconds to complete cycle, and once its completed, would show you the radio signature of the target... (basically what im saying is if you want to know what standings flag with you/your corp everyone in system has, youll have to sacrifice a high slot to probe out ONLY THE KNOWN [as in wont work in wormholes] pilots in local list.)

I may of mis-read the OP....from how I read it you seem to be asking for local that makes easy kills/ easy safe-ups even easier.
I would like local gone altogether in null, low and high....but that's probably just a pipe dream. The amount of intel for zero effort that local gives is ridiculous imho.

May as well remove the Overview, way too much intel there.
ship type, size, speed, targeting, webbing, disrupting, in fleet, WT, Alliance, etc.....

As said, the intel is over the top. Prime example, my first war-dec..
As a nooby I liked the idea of being a scout for my corp, particularly in war time. It didn't take long to see that thanks to local training cov-ops/ recons in order to scout was pointless. A 1 hour old alt in a newb ship was a better scout, no great big red warning sign in local that a WT was around. I hate this.

Naturally this works both ways, without local I, as a scout, would have to work harder to locate/ identify targets, track movement patterns etc. Not a style of gameplay that would appeal to everyone I admit, but I'd be more interested in it.

As for null-sec, Local and the info it gives is one more factor that helped foster the situation where Alliances can hold far more space than they would otherwise find practical.Not the only factor ofc. but a contributory one. One half-awake pilot in a system can report ship/ gang/ fleet movements with impunity and zero effort. I honestly feel it shouldn't be that easy to gain information without dedicated and experienced scouts/ intel officers.