The way I understand is you'll be linking a ship. And when someone presses on that ship you'll see the ship info and have the pilots portrait to click on, right?

Only if they are on your grid (btw, did you know that if you do show info on ships on your grid in the D-scanner you get that info... that was new information for CCP FoxFour )

Only if they are on your grid (btw, did you know that if you do show info on ships on your grid in the D-scanner you get that info... that was new information for CCP FoxFour )

But I do like the idea of doing the count, not sure what those Game Designers say about it though

sooo, let me get this straight:

we have this scenario:

Player A is in system X (wormhole)
Player B is in system Y - linked via WH to system X, and is siting on that connection waiting for prey

Player A sees scaning Anathema on D-scan

Player A links thatanathema into fleet chat

Sudenly player B sees WH activation and Anathema shows up, he clicks in the link in fleet, and if the show info shows ship with player, than that was exaclty the same ship that hes fleet mate show in another system, if not, he know that that player is still there somewhere

Isnt that a little to much info from D-scan??????

So you're implying that for each chat recipient the client(or server) will resolve if the player can see/is on grid with those in the dscan result, and give different types of links to each player for each entry?

Because I think Max is implying it would be the same link to all, and the chat recipient could wait on looking at the link until someone had jumped the wormhole across to the side the recipient's on, and then before they've even broken cloak you could check the link and if you get a pic you know/assume they're still the pilot of the linked ship, and in it on grid/in system with you.
Although you do use the phrase 'be seen'...
How about after they've broken jump-cloak but recloaked again, if you're on grid will it confirm they are too via picture?

Yes, but I believe that only applies to the pilot doing the scan and making the link. It is irrelevant what the scanned ship does afterwards, or the position of the person viewing the information in the link.

In other words, if the pilot info was available when the scan was done and link created, it will remain available any time that link is clicked by any pilot anywhere. Likewise, if it was not available when the link was created it would not become available later if that link is click and the ship is on grid (not that you would need to click the link at that point).

Again, we'll see the final answer shortly.

Will the new D-Scan drag and drop affect the copy / paste output from the D-Scan?

Not because I just spent a week writing a POS fitting parser that relied on it or anything.

From what's said:

You'll get the regular show info for the ship when you're not on grid with it.
When you're on grid with it, you'll also get the little pilot picture you can click through.

Ok, so lest example to clarify:

Neither A nor B can use show info (both see C only on D-scan) and they link it from D-scan

Now C flies to one of them, can they now click on the link to show info or not? (no one in the first place knew which pilot was in the D-scan result ship)

Now you're confusing us.

A and B are hanging out by a gate, chatting. A creates a link of B's ship and brags to his corp, look who I'm chatting with and what he's flying LINK.
1.Does everybody in A's corp see B's portrait or no?

2.How about if B then warps away from A. Do the corpies still see the portrait?

3.How about if A makes a link of B's ship from a scan (while B is away on a warp trip) and links it in corp channel again. Do the corpies see B's portrait?

4.What if B warps back to where he was hanging out with A. Do the corpies now see B's portrait in the last link that was posted?

Hmm. Pot. Kettle. Black.

These are some fan-frickin-tastic Little Things. Double target lines?! Nearly passed out from joy. No more buying 12 when I only wanted two? My wallet is forever in your debt. Dragging from D-Scan? This is so nice I'm unable to continue forming coherent thoughts.

/me tip of the hat.

Someone else already mentioned it, but can we please get an option to turn off the lines drawn by this? Already the ui is often a cluttered mess of all the lines being drawn to target brackets onscreen, providing it's not :supersubtleandbarelyvisible: the highlight on the module icon next to locked target should be sufficient.

Also, again as someone else mentioned (probably same guy :P) an option to NEVER have your locked targets rearrange would be great, having to make multiple clicks/re-deactivating then activating a module on desired target because everything jumped along JUST as I clicked a target and hit F-whatever is annoying, knowing that 3rd target along will be 3rd target along untill I change it or it pops/goes out of range would be great. Newly locked targets could either repopulate empty slots or append to end, I guess forcing to repopulate empty slots if bar had already reached end of screen. Not something for right now ofc, but if you're tinkering around with how all that works...

This is the question. Can you tell who's just jumped into you in w-space by a wormhole before they decloak, or if you get there after they've recloaked but are still on grid, with a link to the ship they're currently in? Or even one they're no longer currently in? You have changed the phrasing to remove reference to being seen/visible afterall. If the link result's dynamic enough to account for them coming to grid and then adding the pilot item, is it making any assumptions about the pilot's ship being the same before it makes the is-on-grid-or-not check?.

\o/

What should have been added along with the new target icons should have been a "health bar" for asteroids, showing when running a survey scanner (on auto for updates ofc).

Keep up the good work, good changes! Retribution is going to be a good expansion.

/c

As an indy i'd like to see stiffer penalty's put on people who commit crimes in hi sec and to see people who go gcc have there pods as well as there ships killed by cocord or at lest able to be targeted by players and killed also i would like to see a function for -6.0 pilots on the gates so they can't move around hi sec and going up in restriction for sec levels above 5.0 i do not believe that a global criminal should be able to move around hi sec.

I fully admit to that being new information to me and boy was I happy to learn that! It makes it far easier to figure out who in my fleets have not renamed their ships so I can yell... politely ask them to change their ship name. :D

I always thought you just didn't want to be pointing fingers

While you are doing such nice work..

What about the Wars tab in the Show Info for corps/alliances?
It's made with some new UI container that doesnt allow Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C like pretty much all other windows/tabs. Would be awesome if you could make it possible to select and copy from the wars window, too.

Great story at the beginning of the dev blog.

It clearly illustrates that software development and version control is so badly handled at CCP that developers don't know what is happening to their own code!

Keep up the good work.

Exactly what options for target order are we going to get? At the current time it lines them up in order they were targeted. Are we now going to be able to say, add exception that all BS get placed at first target slot even if they were say the third ship targeted?

And will it be possible to set up your target list so that no matter the order targeted, the locked targets will fall into the same place across multiple clients? Say you have a fast tackle and BS support, the fast tackle is going to fill its target list up fast while the BS is still gaining lock. Now if I want to broadcast key commands and primary the same target will I be able to have the locked target list the same across clients? Or will I have to do it like currently where I account for the sig of each ship and lock them with my fast tackle in the order that the BS would gain lock on them?

CCP Karkur, have you heard of Dingo Toolbox?

It's a small web application that let's you copy/paste the results of your directional scanner, organizes it into a graphical composition, and then gives you a link you can share with others. I use it all the time when trying to gather intel on enemy fleet compositions.

You use this link to paste the scanner results. Here is an example of what the graphical list looks like. Thanks to DingoGS for making ti!

P.S Your drag-n-drop method is also nice.

fixing small things like this will make this a good expansion , i am still waiting for the trailer tho