Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It is also very very unlikely that the cap status movie that the client displays with constant updates every few seconds is available in that form on the server, since it would be horribly inefficient.
It is more likely that a ship's cap is - serverside - only recalculated/updated whenever the ship actually uses cap, which then in turn acts as a synchronization point for the client movie.

Or, pilots could broadcast for cap when they need it and you could cap them up.

If you keep adding all these little things to try to "improve" the game, you end up taking away some of the key elements. If you want to stay alive, it isn't the Logistics pilot's responsibility, it's yours. Proper broadcasting is something all fleet members should be taught, allowing the Logistics pilots to react accordingly.

Then again, when you warp a fleet of Maelstroms to 0, I guess you don't need to worry too much about Logistics now do you?

Wait, how is that not a User Interface issue?

I understand UI to be the way in which a player navigates the games system and the way the game conveys information to the player... Am i wrong?

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sending information to bazillions of people is not a problem

calculating said information and refining it in a way that it can be send MIGHT be a problem (mostly due to the fact that the information might be calculated in a different way or at a different place than the information that is send right now)

also recieving loads of information and filtering/displaying only the important ones can be a problem

Moved from "EVE General Discussion".

The data for displaying other peoples capacitor levels already exists if I'm not mistaken; you can get such a readout from another player by using a ship scanner on them - although it is only a snapshot. In fact, some logistics pilots fit ship scanners for exactly this purpose. I can see how you'd have to do some changes to the code, but if there is already a function that calls the capacitor level of another ship, writing a couple of snippets to give you a readout into a UI capacitor bar doesn't seem too far fetched.

In my honest opinion, this kind of data should only be displayed to your fleet watchlist - and possibly your fleet; but never anyone who happens to lock you (and vice versa), I'm sure you can guess why (if you NEED a readout on the hostile target, you fit a ship scanner, it's that simple).

Again, I could be wrong

Not much point in knowing your fleet's capacitors when you warp all your Maelstroms to 0 anyway.