Navigation/targeting filter

[AURAequine]

With the thousands of asteroids and other objects littering a sector, I feel it is very much necessary to add a filter for targeting objects.. A menu that lets you select what things are selectable for targeting, or perhaps just specifically cycling with TAB?

 

Say you're flying around an enemy sector, there are many pirates strewn throughout the sector, it's one of the large foggy ones you take out a large group but oh no, there's more many kms out, and even more over that way too. Naturally in your capable ship you intercept and take them out, but where was that big first cruiser you took out? You can't see it, and using tab is down right impossible, as there are thousands of asteroids for it to cycle through before it brings it up.. How are you supposed to salvage that big ship with over 200k Trinium if you can't even find it?

 

Having a filter for what you can select would be very useful for Isolating your targets to something you're looking for. Perhaps you're a real battle thirsty fighter, and want to target any ship as soon as you enter the sector. Maybe you're a trader and want to cycle through the stations until you see one you're looking for? Or a salvager just trying to find those long since lost ship bodies full of precious materials to recycle..

 

It should be noted that using this navigation filter should not be usable to find "secret stashes" and other hidden stuff like that, otherwise it wouldn't be.. well.. hidden..

 

But yeah, Navigation filters!

[cepheni]

In a way this exists but not completely like you suggested it. So there is the iterating through important targets with 'G'. That contains all ships and stations but no asteroids. For the stations alone there is the trading upgrade that lets you see all stations willing to trade (which is every station) of the sector you're in.

Other than that there is no listing done yet. How and if it will come is not yet clear, but many people would like to see something along those lines.

[AURAequine]

Huh, I did not know about the 'G' targetting ships and stations part. Thanks ^-^

 

Unfortunately this does not work to target wreckages and the like, so my suggestion would still help with that, and also allow for you to limit it to a specific type of structure.