Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.11.18 14:01:00 -
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Meta level shown on the icon. Pick another corner of the icon, small number inside a shape of some sort. Make it an option if you fear that it will confuse the nooblets.
Ship inventory (optionally) split into two dynamically changing (volume in m3) areas - ammo/scripts/charges and cargo. Sucks to always sort what I want out of my cargo and what I want to keep there. Or if that is too much of a hack, it could be taken even further...
Item/ship tagging - multi-select my "consumables" and tag them as such and the inventory window will then show these slightly differently / separates them from the rest ("untagged", misc cargo). Perhaps the "generic case" would be to give an ability to tag or group items and ships in cargo or in station hangar and then select between "all" and "grouped by tag" view of the inventory. Grouped by tag could be viewed either as tabbed view or as single window that is split into multiple groups with horizontal or vertical lines. A way to visually sort stuff inside inventory windows.
If expanded also to ships, would also make life much easier for alliance logistics with carriers - instead of renaming ships etc. for carrier hauling, the original owner could just tag each ship with same tag and then trade them to the carrier pilot. Stuff would then show in ship hangar sorted by the tags. No matter how he juggles and re-sorts them into full carrier loads to jump into destination, at the destination station they would all be nicely grouped by tag in the ship window and ready to be traded or dropped into personal hangars by the carrier pilot.
...because containers as they are now are just a huge pain in the ass for organizing items... AFAIK can't put ammo/scripts/charges into container in cargo because of multiple drawbacks, too much :effort: and lack of flexibility to keep a can in hold for "misc cargo", cans not working with unpackaged ships... etc...
Cans could this way to be delegated mostly for what they really are - way to store stuff out in space and way to do "secure storage" (passwords, locked containers etc.).
TLDR: Let me put post-it notes on my stuff and then use those for sorting/grouping
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