
VonKolroth
Gallente Anarchist's Anonymous
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Posted - 2010.10.17 08:03:00 -
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Best ideas I've seen and stuff I'd like to see the way I'd like to see it.
Drone Business
- Re-factor the "Drone Management" window to for numbered groups as tabs (example: 1. [Group Name), 2. [Group Name], etc.) and drag drones into groups like folders, or better yet let us sort all/unassigned drones and "Tag" drones with a group like GMail labels. Then just make assignable hotkeys for each group.
- Make another window almost exactly like the fleet watchlist for active drones in space. Something like that wouldn't be very obtrusive since we wouldn't have to have the "Drone Management" window open the vast majority of the time.
At Range Business
- A slider similar to the "degrees" in the scanning window that lets us adjust current range on the fly. This could be placed on the bottom of the "Selected Item" window. (preferably not a "sticky" one that locks to ranges, but one that brings up a tooltip of the range of it's current position)
- When using a navigation hotkey (such as Keep At Range, Warp To, and Orbit) allow us to hold down the assigned hot key for the navigation command and simultaneously hold down the mouse button at the same time to bring up a selection of ranges.
Targeting
- I STRONGLY agree with many others that the best way to do individual unlocking of targets would be to hold CTRL and click on the targeted ships portrait with the only exception being an "Unlock All" hotkey we can assign.
- An "Unlock All" hotkey would also address another users suggestion for a "de-aggression" hotkey as all mods targeting another ship would shut down after their last targeted cycle. The only thing a user would have to do after that is de-aggress their drones which a a couple of hotkeys already exist for. A actual "de-aggress" hotkey would be redundant.
Windows
- Hotkeys for selecting and cycling through tabs in "Active Window"
- Seperate hotkeys specificaly for tabs in a hotkeyed window, or at the very least, The overview. This could be done in most windows by holding down the hot key for the desired window and pressing a number key
- To make these changes more palatable for all of us who have gotten used to playing EvE a certain way, put the hotkeys for Windows (If assigned) at the end of the windows title or aligned to the right side of the title bar in the window. (Former preferably). Also allow us to assign these hot keys on-the-fly by right clicking on the reminder. That way we wouldn't have to go through the process of pressing escape, clicking the shortcuts tab, then hunting down that business in the shortcuts tab. This would also work very well in the individual window tabs and the right-click menu, example:
Approach (W) Align (A) Orbit (O) Warp To (S) --------- Dock (CTRL-D) --------- Add Station to Overview --------- Add Waypoint [Why is this here anyway?] --------- Bookmark Location... (ALT-B) Show Info (ALT-I)
Other thoughts
- I would like to see bookmarks and scanning results in the overview and brackets like we can in the system map so we can take advantage of these new navigation shortcuts for them as well. You know, as long as we're adding functionality to bookmarks (like align to bookmark).
- I believe the default range for warping should always be 0km, unless otherwise stated in the right-click menu or by the method I described above (With the exception of autopilot, of course). This eliminates the need for a slider like I suggested for active range. I also don't see a speed slider as anything but redundant, there is one right below the capacitor.
Overall I love the new way of doing things and I commend the EvE devs for taking the plunge to bring it to us. ~
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