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Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.03.13 14:33:00 -
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Yosef Autaal wrote:What faction controls system (obvious)
What corp owns districts/ planet
locations of battles active at the moment (if possible who is winning)
Where contracts available at the moment
Show where most battles taken place (similar to way eve shows total number ships destroyed)
This is a good list, here is my take on it:
Sovereignty: Faction, Alliance, Corporation for System, Planet, District, Ward and Susceptibility to Change
- This is pretty straightforward. It lets me know who owns what and whether or not I can try to conquer it.
Battles (Current, Last Hour, 24 Hours) with Status (Pending/Beginning/Ending/Completed), Results, Killmails
- This lets me know not only what battles I can join, but it also tells me where the hotspots are and lets me see who is stomping on whom and to some small degree- how.
Intel: Current and Potential (could be built) Infrastructure in the District, Ward
- This lets me plan my strategy by considering what I might face attacking the area, and what economic benefits I might reap from conquering it.
Contracts: Mercenary battles available to me (or anyone) right now and in the future.
- This lets me not only get into awesome matches that mean something, but they enable me to see how those connect to the larger New Eden milieu.
News: Tags and pop-ups for news items (CCP, ISD, Alliance, Corp)
- This lets me not just read news- I can see WHERE news items, chronicles, etc. are happening. This gives me a larger context for them. By enabling not just CCP and ISD, but also my Alliance and Corp to post news items with geotagging, the starmap news becomes even more relevant to my experience. |
Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.03.13 14:37:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:When you compare EVE's starmap to something like Dotlan which is really useful though? Personally I don't ever (now that auto pilot settings can be accessed in space) open the EVE starmap. I just have Dotlan open on another screen.
Agreed though, any kind of new starmap will need to be functionally useful while maintaining being pretty. This is a game and our artists do like to make pretty things after all. :)
I do use the Solar System map, though. In nullsec, it can be important to see where things are relative to each other- for avoiding those kitten bubbles, for instance.
I imagine that in Dust, planetary maps will be critical. In addition, if we are trying to coordinate ANYTHING with EVE, we will need an easy way to see system maps as well as constellations and regions.
After all, if I'm trying to coordinate orbitals with EVE and I'm fighting on a planet way over in the kitten end of Goon space...
Well, I'm hosed. But I need to be able to figure that out from the map before I take the contract. |
Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.03.13 14:39:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:Vaerana Myshtana wrote:News: Tags and pop-ups for news items (CCP, ISD, Alliance, Corp)
- This lets me not just read news- I can see WHERE news items, chronicles, etc. are happening. This gives me a larger context for them. By enabling not just CCP and ISD, but also my Alliance and Corp to post news items with geotagging, the starmap news becomes even more relevant to my experience. Ooooo I like this idea. Some really cool things could be done with this. Pass this on to others. :D
I would, but you're the one who works for CCP.  |
Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.03.13 15:02:00 -
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Yosef Autaal wrote:
These are some great ideas can we get all of these please FoxFour \o/
One more thing I would like to add is where are my corp/alliance mates fighting now:
Can see contracts both pub and merc and crop contracts showing where my corps/alliance buddies are in so it is posisble for me to quickly find a friendly group and join in the match if there is space on the battlefield on there side (depends on if pub match sides is chosen at random still)
Oooh. I like that. Good point. |
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