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Wraith Atavuli
Borderlands Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2012.02.16 04:19:00 -
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Sorry if this has already been posted, but I had a suggestion for a new shortcut, to deploy all drones in the drone bay of the active ship (or as many as the player has skill for anyway). There's already a shortcut to return all active drones to the bay (Shift + R) and return and orbit (Shift + Alt + R), so i thought it would be nice to have something to deploy them all too. Maybe make the default keys be Shift + D (for deploy) or Shift + L (for launch)? |
Wraith Atavuli
Borderlands Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2012.02.16 20:57:00 -
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Jint Hikaru wrote:Serge Bastana wrote:That maybe fine for ships with anemic drone bays, but what about ships that have the capacity to hold multiple flights of drones? I think that's why CCP haven't implemented this since chances are a launch drones shortcut would probably launch the last set of drones you had in space, which may not be the ones you wish to launch. When you have a Gallente boat with a big enough drone bay you may not get the results you expected. Exactly this.... I used to carry a whole range of drones in my Domi.... would rather not have a random bunch spit out. However, i suppose if you are in this situation you ignore the shortcut and use the standard launching method.
Both good points. CCP, any thoughts? Has this already been considered and rejected? I've talked to other players and corp members about this and they thought it could be a useful addition in certain circumstances, like if you have all the same type of drones in the bay, or you want to send out the ones you recalled again.
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Wraith Atavuli
Borderlands Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2012.02.16 23:47:00 -
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mxzf wrote: ...How about if you could drag a group of drones down to the {|Ctrl|Alt}F1-8 buttons that you use for all your other weapons and modules? Then you can hit that hotkey to launch that group of drones (or however many you have bandwidth for from that group). It would effectively be a simple shortcut for rightclicking on the group and clicking 'launch'.
^This is also a really good idea. Assign it to, say, F8, then just hit that to launch the selected drones, "F" on a locked target to attack, then Ctrl + R to return them to the bay. Total keystrokes: 4.
I understand that this isn't really that much of a time saver, but it would still be a neat little shortcut. When just about everything else as far as controlling drones can be done with just the keyboard, it's a little bit annoying to still have to mouse over>right click>launch drones. |
Wraith Atavuli
Borderlands Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2012.02.17 15:05:00 -
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Something else happened while I was online last night, that made me wish for this shortcut even more: my client glitched up on me mid-mission and i couldn't click on my drone window anymore; The mouse just displayed the standard "typing" cursor when I would move over it. I don't know if this happens to anyone else, and hopefully it will get patched soon, but it's happened to me before. The Launch Drones shortcut would have eliminated the issue for me. As it was, I had to wait till the mission (Lvl 4 Security) was completed, dock in the closest station, and restart the client.
Dev Team, any input? Even a flat-out "no" would be appreciated, as long as a sufficiently good reason was given :( |
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