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Luminus Aardokay
Gallente SI Radio
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Posted - 2009.12.07 19:42:00 -
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With the release of Apocrypha we've seen corporations who took upon colonizing w-space, and found out how important Bookmark usage to navigation is. For most of those corps the daily routine is a scan of their home system, bookmarking sites and wormhole exits and then share the bookmarks with the rest of the corporation through the usage of a hangar in a POS.
However, this approach is highly inefficient as copying of bookmarks becomes tedious (Move the bookmark to your ship's cargo hold, transfer it to People and Places, then make a copy from your bookmarks back to the corp hangar) and the information presented on the bookmarks themselves while in a container or hangar is practically non-existent, even if you check the info of a bookmark leading corps to devise naming schemes for their bookmarks that relay the information lacking by the game to the corpmates.
A suggestion there would be a new Bookmark handling mechanism for shared corporation use, similar to the saved corp ship fittings one.
- A corp role for "Corp Bookmarks" access is created with View/Modify permissions - The "Shared Corp Bookmarks" (SCB) tool would work pretty much like the People and Places (P&P) one. - SCB should support folders and subfolders for organization purposes - SCB entries should indicate time of the bookmark's creation as well as the system they've been created in (much like the P&P tool does) and finally the first creator of the Bookmark. - When adding a bookmark, a user should have the option to add a description for the bookmark (much like what happens with every other user transaction), which would be visible if a person hovers the mouse over the bookmark in SCB or P&P. - Right clicking on a bookmark in SCB should have an additional "COPY TO" function which would open a tree of the user's P&P bookmark folders to copy to, much like the tree of available chat channels when a person right click on a player and invites them to one. A destination should also be "SHIP CARGO HOLD" if the user is not in a pod. - The same functionality should be implemented on bookmarks found in a user's P&P, such as COPY TO -> CORP BOOKMARKS -> ALL BOOKMARKS or COPY TO -> CORP BOOKMARKS -> USER DEFINED FOLDER - Dragging a bookmark into a chat channel should create a link to the bookmark. Pilots who click on it get an information window with the bookmark's details (name, coordinates, date added, system, description, first creator). Right clicking on the link, should pop the usual functions along with the COPY TO one.
Suggestions found on various sources:
(Idea by Den McConan) - Ability to "Align to" a bookmark location
(Ideas by Kirith Kodachi) - Make "Add Bookmark" able to be bound to a keyboard shortcut for precise bookmarking during mid-warp. - Allow pilots to show bookmarks in the present grid, both in the bracket and in the overview.
(Idea by Wonko) - Allow Squad/Wing/Fleet commanders to warp fleet at any distance between 0 and 100km from a bookmark, rather than just 0.
This bookmark management idea ties in perfectly with the game lore as well, since bookmarks are nothing more than an encapsulated set of information including vector coordinates and textual descriptions are entities that can be transmitted through communication channels and there is no real need for them to be exchanged as physical items. In fact, (and this being an educated guess here) if bookmark management and sharing got totally disengaged from bookmarks being treated as inventory items it could help with the stress the database undergoes when bookmark instances are created as items (Need for speed initiative anyone?).
(also discussed in the features and ideas discussion forum)
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Flynn Fetladral
BlackSite Prophecy
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Posted - 2009.12.07 20:02:00 -
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We certainly need an improved bookmark handling service, The current system is frustrating. It would be nice to also be able to make a local xml export of your bookmarks.
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Song Li
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Posted - 2009.12.07 20:08:00 -
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Supported again!
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Jin So
Arcana Imperii Ltd. Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2009.12.07 20:30:00 -
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i support this
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Ivory Saje
Equilibrium.
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Posted - 2009.12.07 20:36:00 -
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we really need this, will make things easier
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Slinkus Gallentus
Gallente Lysergic Spacetime Dimension
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Posted - 2009.12.07 20:42:00 -
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Supported. cheers
"Life is not one big joke. Life is 40,000 little jokes all lined up" |
Kbobiller
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Posted - 2009.12.07 20:45:00 -
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Excellent idea
Kbob
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Kvikorma Marteh
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Posted - 2009.12.07 22:04:00 -
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Corp Bookmarks would be awesome.
Not sure about the aligning to a BM, but the rest is great.
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Jared Ulfsuun
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Posted - 2009.12.08 08:19:00 -
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Herschel Yamamoto
Agent-Orange
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Posted - 2009.12.08 16:41:00 -
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I don't spend nearly as much time in W-space as you do, but I can still see the utility of this. Supported.
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Flynn Fetladral
Caldari BlackSite Prophecy
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Posted - 2009.12.08 17:09:00 -
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Align to Bookmark would be very handy, I've counted many times when I wish I could of done this.
Originally by: Kvikorma Marteh Not sure about the aligning to a BM, but the rest is great.
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dethleffs
SCHG
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Posted - 2009.12.08 17:24:00 -
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yes please!
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Maxsim Goratiev
Imperium Technologies
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Posted - 2009.12.08 19:02:00 -
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absolutely
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Flynn Fetladral
Caldari BlackSite Prophecy
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Posted - 2009.12.09 10:48:00 -
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This needs a bump!
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GIGAR
Full Metal Seraphim
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Posted - 2009.12.09 11:03:00 -
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This would actually make a lot of sense. I support this!
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Zaknussem
Intrum Industria
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Posted - 2009.12.09 11:17:00 -
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I think this is a good idea for a change, as well as the "align to bookmark" feature.
However, I can already hear Prism X whine about his precious database over this, so don't count on this any time soon. |
Seiver D'amross
Subach-Tech
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Posted - 2009.12.09 11:39:00 -
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_____________________________________________________ I shal stand tall and shake the heavens with my power
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TeaDaze
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Posted - 2009.12.09 11:57:00 -
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It could actually reduce the load on the database not having to copy hundreds of bookmarks to an object, stick in a can and then load on another char...
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Flynn Fetladral
Caldari BlackSite Prophecy
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Posted - 2009.12.09 19:38:00 -
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Originally by: TeaDaze It could actually reduce the load on the database not having to copy hundreds of bookmarks to an object, stick in a can and then load on another char...
It also would breed consistency in bookmark labels, make it easier for lower SP / newer members of a corp to have access to well defined bookmarks without having to go out and make his or her own or have to go through the copying nightmare. Overall better fleet organization that a centralised bookmark database for each corp would grant, as it continues to add new ones. Finally, not needing to worry about preference folder issues and lost bookmarks.
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RiotRick
Black-Sun Pitch Black Legion
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Posted - 2009.12.09 20:52:00 -
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Edited by: RiotRick on 09/12/2009 20:55:46 We wants the precious!
Something needs to be changed with the bookmarks. An other solution is to implement a way to convert a bookmark item into plain text and back into a bookmark. That way you could easily evemail bookmarks or post them on a corp forum or wherever you'd like.
This shouldn't be difficult to implement and people can use already existing mechanisms to share bookmarks. -- The future is black.
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LittleHorror
Black-Sun Pitch Black Legion
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Posted - 2009.12.09 20:53:00 -
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/signed
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Tazmarin
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Posted - 2009.12.09 20:55:00 -
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approved
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Sodom Collapsabus
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Posted - 2009.12.09 20:56:00 -
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/signed
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Euky
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Posted - 2009.12.09 21:00:00 -
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I support this.
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Hjerre
KOSPARIAN EMPIRE
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Posted - 2009.12.09 21:09:00 -
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Yes, I support this! |
Wabs
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Posted - 2009.12.09 21:13:00 -
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WTB!!!!!!! best idea in ages!
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Thraxon
Black-Sun Pitch Black Legion
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Posted - 2009.12.10 14:57:00 -
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/signed
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Ga'len
Minmatar Ship Construction Services Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2009.12.10 15:06:00 -
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This needs to be done ASAP!
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Anewb N'eve
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Posted - 2009.12.10 15:12:00 -
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Zahorite
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Posted - 2009.12.10 16:06:00 -
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I support this. It will be useful for far more than just wormhole space. For instance setting up bookmarks for jump bridges and stealth bombers. I would suggest also having an alliance bookmark position that would allow an alliance member to share the bookmark across the entire alliance (useful for jump bridges and such) and also a fleet role that allows the same (this would mean that only one person would have to set a bookmark for salvaging after the completion of a complex or mission). Also I'd suggest having an option to turn off automatically getting these since some people may not want them.
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