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Drone Control UI upgrade, and Camera Pan on Mouseover Target
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Maenth
The Thirteen Provinces
#1 - 2012-01-28 23:14:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Maenth
Camera Pan on Mouseover Target
Please make this a toggle-able option, so that users can turn it on if they want. I enjoyed looking at my targets as me and my drones orbit and shoot at them. If this is done, also please make the camera hold on that location a few moments after target destroyed, so that the viewer can enjoy the explosion :)


Drone Control Panel Upgrades
There are two areas for this; minor request, and major changes.

Minor Request
When using keyboard shortcuts to toggle between focus fire mode, and passive/aggressive mode, I'd like to have a little pop-up text notification telling me that it's been changed and what I just changed it to.

Major Changes
1) Add a set of icons to the top of the drone control panel to indicate the current status of toggled drone/fighter options, and clicking on said icons will toggle the setting. (replacing the need to open that little window)
2) Add an icon/indicator which displays clearly the number of drones currently controlled in space (to see at a glance how many are out there, instead of looking for the little label on the one folder in the whole panel, which is not always in the same place)
3) Add some kind of indicator in the drone control panel which shows when a drone is incapacitated, making it easy to know which one to go scoop/abandon while in a battle
4) When drones are un-packaged but in the drone back, make their status visible in the drone control panel (this way drone commanders don't accidentally send out damaged drones when they need fresh drones, and carriers can re-deploy fighters once their shields are recharged instead of having to wonder and hope that they're picking a good one)

Drones. Drones are a means to an end. An end to the ruthless Caldari 'progress' machines. An end to the barbaric 'redemption' proposed by the Amarr. What they see as chaos shall be my perfect order, merely beyond their comprehension.
Maenth
The Thirteen Provinces
#2 - 2012-02-11 05:55:59 UTC
New idea!

5) Add drone/fighter control groups (and also a launch function) so that different groups of drones can be easily and efficiently launched and controlled... or in some way the ability to set up command shortcuts so that it's easy to manage drone groups without relying on using the folder/list all the time

I'm a bit sleepy now so I'll come up with a more thorough layout of what I'm thinking later in case this isn't enough *sleepy but excited!*

Drones. Drones are a means to an end. An end to the ruthless Caldari 'progress' machines. An end to the barbaric 'redemption' proposed by the Amarr. What they see as chaos shall be my perfect order, merely beyond their comprehension.