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Looting; speed up the tedious aspect

Author
Cobrastrike Khardula
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-03-13 13:27:44 UTC
For me and a few others at least (though I suspect it affects a lot more) find looting a large quantity of cargo containers/wrecks to be very tedious and time consuming. For example, if you end up salvaging a decently large mission there can be 50+ wrecks, which consumes a lot of time to right click, open, loot all and repeat (or click wreck, go to selected target click open and then loot all). I haven't done the math or timed it, but I'd guess in a decently fitted salvager (Noctis) a large portion of the time consumed is looting, or at least I find it is.

I have two proposals to help speed up the looting aspect, both relatively simple:


  1. Hotkey for opening.
  2. Loot all default selected.



1 - Like control+click to quickly lock someone , perhaps something along the lines of o+click. Along with the ability to simply press o and try to open the cargo of the selected target. In my mind this will speed up opening cargo containers, with relatively low difficulty to add as well as still allowing anyone who isn't aware of the hotkey to still use the older methods.

2 - When you open a cargo container/wreck the majority of the time (unless you are being selective to exclude metal scraps etc), I find people will just want to loot all, so the 'loot all' could be highlighted - meaning you could just press enter to loot all. This would also be a relatively small edit from what I'm aware. For example the wallet automatically selects the 'Load' button as most people who load the wallet want to simply view the transactions.

Kusum Fawn
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-03-13 17:57:45 UTC
this issue used to be balanced out by how slow it was to salvage before the noctis. with a destroyer and its 20km tractors, or a marauder with its 40 km tractors, salvaging used to be more of a wait between wrecks coming in. then the wait now of the salvagers cycling and selecting things to loot.

I really dont find it to be an issue for me to loot and salvage everything as i use the hot keys for salvagers and tractors and the mouse for cans. 50+ wrecks with cans is much less time with noctis then 25 with destroyer.

I personally dislike focus grabbing windows, expecially ones as slow to load as wreck/can windows. I would prefer a way to lock the window open location for wreck/jetcan specific windows, so i can preset them for fast clicking of the loot all button without having to anticipate their spawn location. (id like this without screwing up all the other window spawn mechanics, which are a bit wonky to begin with)

Its not possible to please all the people all the time, but it sure as hell is possible to Displease all the people, most of the time.