Making Def Fleets Easier

[-Blue Moon-]

I'm digging this up from an old suggestion ( http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=188903 ) that got a fair amount of support, and we were all a little upset nothing has been done (still):

it's been reposted/edited/updated below for your viewing pleasure

The Pitch
Ever had the problem trying to communicate what you have home to your DCs?
Tired of cutting and pasting into excel?
Never fear - things could be made easier!

Option 1
This option would be on OVERVIEW and is like the on golden roids where when you click it you would pull out extra info (yay im so good at technical terms - EXPAND fields maybe??) and show what's available and where. This way it's not constantly messy and only pops out when you need/want it to. This way you can just paste the relevent fleet(s) to your DC, and if you're super smart you'll move all your ships home into 'Base' so you only have to paste once


Fleet Location Scans Target ETA Mission Ships
Base 1:1:1 -- -- -- 50
+ Spider 50
Alpha 1:1:1 -- -- -- 15
+ Tzen 15
Beta 1:1:1 P S T U N J 50:1:1 6 Return 20
+ Rogue 20
Gamma 1:1:1 P S T U N J 50:1:2 7 Attack 10
+ Ghost 5 + Spider 5


Option 2
Alternatively something similar is added to mission, where you can actively COLLAPSE fields so that you dont see :

So that the annoyance of :

Base 1:1:1 -- --
Ship Class Target Type Count
Spider Fighter Corvette Emp 50

Becomes the beautiful simplicity of :

Base 1:1:1 -- --
Ship Count
Spider 50

(Or possibly any combination of the above fields? -given the option)


Option 3
Making the 'fleets' page more useful by again removing or having the option to hide some of those fields that you don't always want to see.

Instead of:
Ships Cla Tar Base Alpha Beta Gamma TOTAL
Spider FI CO 50 0 0 5 55

We can have the option to again collapse any fields to see something more like:
Ships Base
Spider 50



Conclusion
Anyway, all of these options simply means that offered defense by members would be more accurate and a lot easier to do -- and I'm sure both the newer and more established alliances would appreciate any of these 3 changes because it will make DCs lives just the little bit easier.

tux

[Intruder]

I do support his idea. And i also want a beer can.

[-Blue Moon-]

wake up ppl and give me your love, this is a somewhat decent idea

[coffee-]

Sounds completely logical and reasonable.

I support this.

[-Blue Moon-]

only problem is, again, nobody reads these forums so my post is being ignored, again *sighs*
good thing i'm seeing appoco 2moro, maybe he'll listen in person

[Lοki]

Good idea, though actually there are battle calculators that take pastes from missions