Absinyth
Pacifica.
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Posted - 2010.05.17 20:24:00 -
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First I'd like to say that I see real potential in this tool becoming better and more useful in preparation and planning of the PI experience. Thank you for taking your time to create this tool and helping all of us podpilots out.
I'd like to submit some feedback and some ideas that may help to develop this tool:
Any way to make the production plan and planet plan work in tandem? That way when you make a change in one planner it automatically updates the other planner so that relationships are preserved and carry over to all planners. For example, you can setup your production plan with multiple plans (instead of just one at a time) to what you want to make (maybe even with quantities), then go to the planet planner and it will automatically generate what structures you need and how many. Also, still allow modification in the planet planner so the user can customize the network but when a change is made it updates the data & information on the production planner.
Would also need messages/notifications if a setup would be incompatible to validate the changes are actually possible. Of course probably a lot of work but would be really cool to implement.
Also may I suggest presets so that people can select say POS fuel and it will update all planners to show what planets they need, how many of which type, the type and quantity of structures needed, which schematics to use, and breakdown and/or total price of everything? That way people can plan the entire PI experience as a first step and can create networks all in one place before any ISK is spent on TQ. All that is left for the user to do is find which system these planets reside in.
One last thing I would like to propose is real-time monitor of actual colonies that exists on TQ with cycle times, available storage, see what's in storage(s), see what the processors have in it's input, what's in production and the quantity, depletion of the extractors (like projected depletion date & time), etc. Whatever can be included in your tool with the Planetary Interaction API and datadump if/when it becomes available.
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