Player Features and Ideas Discussion

In many cases you want some types of ships to be grouped in fleet in same squad/wing. For example you want:
- all logis or tacklers in same wing with appropriate commandship as wing booster;
- all interdictors/tacklers in same squad to give them a probber as squad leader;
- all titans/supercarriers in same wing for whatever reason,
- deny ships you don't wanna see in fleet from joining it. Usually you don't wonna see in BS fleet t1 frigates, assaults, bombers.

My idea is to create new preset system with all shiptypes listed (like in overview settings) with two options a fleet commander may check - "denial" and "preference", or leave unchecked. "Default" profile has all boxes unchecked. Profiles can be created, saved, edited and loaded for a fleet/wing/squad that FC wishes it to be applied to. Wing settings overwrite fleet ones, squad settings overwrite wing ones. How this is supposed to work.

"Preference" setting allows to group some ship type in certain wing/squad. For example wings 1-2-3-4 have "default" profile, wing 5 has profile with shiptype "logistics" set to "preference". Any logistic ship that joins a fleet comes to fifth wing. If fifth wing is full, new logis would join any other wing.

"Denial" setting doesn't allow certain ship type to join fleet/wing at all. With few clicks FC may deny all t1 frigates/bombers to join fleet. But "preference" setting for wing would overwrite "denial" setting for fleet. For example if fleet profile has "titans" set to "denial" and fifth wing has "titans" set to "preference" titans may join fifth wing but not wings 1-2-3-4. In this case a titan pilot trying to join a fleet when fifth wing is already full gets a notification "no free position was found in fleet".

I suggest all changes in fleet/wing profiles work only for ships that join fleet afterwards. This would require an FC to load profiles right after creating a fleet. Or make it the way "denial" setting would automatically kick all ships of unwanted shiptypes that are already in fleet/wing. In this case any changes to settings would start a 20 second timer before other changes can be made. 20 seconds is a session change timer for pilots that get moved in fleet.

On first thought this feature seems to be of no use and interest to 99% players. But a skilled FC may save ten minutes managing fleet. Ten minutes of his time is ten minutes saved for every pilot in his fleet. So this feature is basically aimed for use in big (150+) fleets.