Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2013.09.11 19:14:00 -
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Some info on what a specific battle did would be good, but those changes are fairly small and won't necessarily mean a lot. What I would really like to see is more trend data for the last time a system was flipped. Sort of a FW status screen. ie: how much time did Dust affect the capture time the last time this system was flipped? In hours, not just the percentage modifier.
Pick the start time as the last time that the system became contested, take the time that the system finally flipped and use that to get a rough idea of how many hours Dust modified that push by. That's something we could take to Eve players and say, "Hey, this is what we can do for you". You might have to do some estimation with the start time, since it could mess up the numbers if the system was pushed into contention and then ignored for a week. Since we helped make Arzad fall in a day we've been trying to repeat that event, but it's been difficult getting FW corps to play ball. They just see Dust as irrelevant to the war. Some stats would help with that. This stuff should probably be shown in the eve client too.
It'd also be cool to be able to open a screen that shows us how a faction is doing overall. What percentage of warzone control they have, any sov changes in the last day and flags for systems whose Dust control has changed significantly in the last day. So you can look at it and say, "Oh ****, our eastern lines are collapsing!"
Throw some graphs in there. Bitches love line charts. |
Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2013.09.12 03:05:00 -
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As I think about the idea of a faction's system control, I'd like to see the starmap in Dust look something like the verite eve influence map. When you go to the faction info screen I'd kind of like to see two solid, filled in colored blobs that show the areas controlled by each faction. With areas under contention denoted by the attacker's colors appearing in lines over the defender's territory.
Even better would be some animation showing the advances one side has made into the other's territory, from the Eve side of things. Then on each star you could show the Dust modifier for capture on that system. You could use pie charts (possibly on the same view) to show what percentage of districts that faction controls. This would allow a merc to look at the map and know where the fighting in space is happening, and where their efforts could make a difference. |