* My biggest gripe about the game is the turret selection / filtering. It's great that DPS/slot was introduced with Black Market (although I feel that should be rolled into the base game) but the problem remains that when I'm trying to add Armed turrets to my ship, it's a nightmare with repair, force, mining and salving turrets all hogging the screen, making it very difficult to spot the ones that do damage. I suggest a dropdown to select between Armed and Unarmed turrets, checkboxes to Filter damage types (or different Unarmed types), and two dropdowns to Sort by DPS, DPS/Slot and range. That way I can say, for example, "Show me all Plasma turrets sorted by DPS/Slot then by Range."
* Split existing block - There are some wonderful ships on the workshop that are beautiful and while they include large sections of Framework for players to customise, it's common for those blocks to be very large so it's not possible to simply convert them wholly to, for example, a shield generator. Given the nature of the building system, it's quite tricky to delete the framework and build in the gap remaining. It would be great if we could select an existing block and hit a key to cut it in half. Then we could just convert the new, smaller piece.
* The chat window could use an overhaul. One of the great features of WoW and EQ was the ability to have multiple chat frames and use checkboxes to select which information gets displayed in each. It would be nice to see that level of flexibility.
* "We have no turrets or fighters!" Periodically I get this message pop up in my chat but I have no idea which station or ship is complaining! It would be great if the message were prepended with the ship or station concerned.
* I'd like to see the Favourites window selected by default in the Server Browser. Sure it would only save me one click but it should be a similarly trivial fix.
* A couple of players on our server recently fought one of the centre bosses and now everyone on the server is being notified of Xsotan spawning in great numbers and of a convoy. For players still banging the rocks together outside the barrier, these messages are so much spam. Perhaps they could be restricted to those who have completed the 'barrier quest'.
* RCON - Please add a broadcast command that pops up a message that can be seen even if you're in build mode. This is important for admin warnings like "Server reboot in 5 mins". It would also be great if you could work with Battlemetrics to get your game on their supported list so we can monitor and manage it from there.
* Discord integration - It would be great if the game offered built-in support for bidirectional chat with Discord. There's a mod out there that kludges in a bridge but it was written for ver1, requires a lot of faffing about, installing python and running a python script. I've found it tends to hang and the developer noted that "Avorion doesn't support sockets" and that they "stopped modding years ago".
* Text selection in dialogs - Chat boxes, filters, notes, etc. At the moment to remove a whole bunch of text, the standard method of shift-selection doesn't seem to work, so I need to position my cursor at the end and hold down backspace for however long it takes.
* Loot "blips" filtering - It would be great if the coloured spots at the edge of the screen that show loot off screen did NOT show up if they were prohibited from pickup. It makes it hard to clean up loot after a fight, trying to remember which are wreckage clouds that you've already flown through.
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TrevorJD
* My biggest gripe about the game is the turret selection / filtering. It's great that DPS/slot was introduced with Black Market (although I feel that should be rolled into the base game) but the problem remains that when I'm trying to add Armed turrets to my ship, it's a nightmare with repair, force, mining and salving turrets all hogging the screen, making it very difficult to spot the ones that do damage. I suggest a dropdown to select between Armed and Unarmed turrets, checkboxes to Filter damage types (or different Unarmed types), and two dropdowns to Sort by DPS, DPS/Slot and range. That way I can say, for example, "Show me all Plasma turrets sorted by DPS/Slot then by Range."
* Split existing block - There are some wonderful ships on the workshop that are beautiful and while they include large sections of Framework for players to customise, it's common for those blocks to be very large so it's not possible to simply convert them wholly to, for example, a shield generator. Given the nature of the building system, it's quite tricky to delete the framework and build in the gap remaining. It would be great if we could select an existing block and hit a key to cut it in half. Then we could just convert the new, smaller piece.
* The chat window could use an overhaul. One of the great features of WoW and EQ was the ability to have multiple chat frames and use checkboxes to select which information gets displayed in each. It would be nice to see that level of flexibility.
* "We have no turrets or fighters!" Periodically I get this message pop up in my chat but I have no idea which station or ship is complaining! It would be great if the message were prepended with the ship or station concerned.
* I'd like to see the Favourites window selected by default in the Server Browser. Sure it would only save me one click but it should be a similarly trivial fix.
* A couple of players on our server recently fought one of the centre bosses and now everyone on the server is being notified of Xsotan spawning in great numbers and of a convoy. For players still banging the rocks together outside the barrier, these messages are so much spam. Perhaps they could be restricted to those who have completed the 'barrier quest'.
* RCON - Please add a broadcast command that pops up a message that can be seen even if you're in build mode. This is important for admin warnings like "Server reboot in 5 mins". It would also be great if you could work with Battlemetrics to get your game on their supported list so we can monitor and manage it from there.
* Discord integration - It would be great if the game offered built-in support for bidirectional chat with Discord. There's a mod out there that kludges in a bridge but it was written for ver1, requires a lot of faffing about, installing python and running a python script. I've found it tends to hang and the developer noted that "Avorion doesn't support sockets" and that they "stopped modding years ago".
* Text selection in dialogs - Chat boxes, filters, notes, etc. At the moment to remove a whole bunch of text, the standard method of shift-selection doesn't seem to work, so I need to position my cursor at the end and hold down backspace for however long it takes.
* Loot "blips" filtering - It would be great if the coloured spots at the edge of the screen that show loot off screen did NOT show up if they were prohibited from pickup. It makes it hard to clean up loot after a fight, trying to remember which are wreckage clouds that you've already flown through.
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