I just hit RA 1 last night. I now fly an Advanced Escort. I have my space HUD expanded to show 3 bars with 10 spaces each for hotkeyed space abilities. Every one is used.
This is not bad now, but when I want to get into a Cruiser with more device slots and weapons, I will not have enough room for all my abilities and BOffs abilites.
Please guys, add the option for more hotbars to be displayed. I was able to work with 5 or 6 on previous games.
I know I can use the arrow keys on the sides to flip to bar 4-10, but I want to be able to display them all at once, or at least more than just 3!
Why do you need hotkeys for each individual weapon? I have one fore torpedo and one aft torpedo, just so I know when I have them in range. Otherwise, just re-key the fire all weapons function to your number-pad enter key. I have every BO ability and Captain ability mapped to the function bar, with a couple of slots to spare.
I like to have all my weapons on display so I can choose which to fire when I use abilities like High Yield or Beam Overload. also as far as I know I need to keep the fore and aft weapon that I want to auto-fire on my hotbar as well.
why? you have more then one for and one aft torp launcher? if so you only need the best one on your bar, no? why would you use high yield with the weaker of 2 forward launchers? Same goes for beams and overload at most you need 2 forward and 2 rear beams on your bar.
I like to have all my weapons on display so I can choose which to fire when I use abilities like High Yield or Beam Overload. also as far as I know I need to keep the fore and aft weapon that I want to auto-fire on my hotbar as well.
It doesn't need to stay on the hotbar. Set it to autofire and you're done.
I agree, I am Captain 5 and have run out of spaces. Well, I take that back, I have one empty slot that will probably be filled when I get my admiral ship and then I'll not have any slots for my new abilities from my BO's.
As for the weapons, yes I need them on my hot-bar, especially the torpedoes. I need to know when the cool-down is up on them for I use multiple front torpedo bays as well as multiple front lasers and multiple rear lasers.
My trays consist of: All my personal Powers (not ship things like shields, I mean actual abilities I get as a player), all my Bridge Officer Skills (yes I use them all), my four device slots, my seven weapon slots, and transwarp to earth. This leaves me with only one slot open, at Captain 5.
so its cool to "demand" (lol!) stuff, but a few hints about how to make the current system work for him, and logical reasons as why it isn't nessary is "jumping" lol?
I am, in a Cruiser, and I have every ability mapped to the hotbar, with spots to spare.
"No way!" right?
Here's how:
1 - The only shield ability you need (not engineering or science abilities, the ones directly tied to your shield quadrants) is Balance Shields. The individual facings can be changed by pressing your arrow keys.
2 - The only weapons you need added when you need more than 16 spaces are a fore and aft weapon of the smallest firing arc in that group. The computer will automatically give any buffs to the next weapon that fires of that type in that firing arc.
At RADM, in a Cruiser, I have my Red Matter Capacitor, three batteries AND every ability - including Transwarp to Sol and Full Impulse - added to a 30 slot bar perfectly. I don't use batteries, so I have some extra slots.
The main reasons I need all my weapons there is because:
1) They do not all auto-fire.
2) Even if they did, I still would not have them all set to auto-fire.
3) I need to be able to switch auto-fire on the fly for say if I am just keeping my front facing an enemy, or my side, or my rear.
4) I sometimes use multiple types of weapons, such as phasers to diable systems, tetryon to penetrate shields, quantum for a killing blow, plasmas for the boom splash, and so on. Making it so I need to sometimes specify which weapon I want to fire, especially with torpedoes. Right now I am just using all Quantums however I do have a couple different beams.
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It doesn't need to stay on the hotbar. Set it to autofire and you're done.
As for the weapons, yes I need them on my hot-bar, especially the torpedoes. I need to know when the cool-down is up on them for I use multiple front torpedo bays as well as multiple front lasers and multiple rear lasers.
My trays consist of: All my personal Powers (not ship things like shields, I mean actual abilities I get as a player), all my Bridge Officer Skills (yes I use them all), my four device slots, my seven weapon slots, and transwarp to earth. This leaves me with only one slot open, at Captain 5.
Why can he not demand more hotbars without some ppl jumping on telling him what he could do and that his request is pointless.
Boahh im gonna crazy here :eek:
I am, in a Cruiser, and I have every ability mapped to the hotbar, with spots to spare.
"No way!" right?
Here's how:
1 - The only shield ability you need (not engineering or science abilities, the ones directly tied to your shield quadrants) is Balance Shields. The individual facings can be changed by pressing your arrow keys.
2 - The only weapons you need added when you need more than 16 spaces are a fore and aft weapon of the smallest firing arc in that group. The computer will automatically give any buffs to the next weapon that fires of that type in that firing arc.
At RADM, in a Cruiser, I have my Red Matter Capacitor, three batteries AND every ability - including Transwarp to Sol and Full Impulse - added to a 30 slot bar perfectly. I don't use batteries, so I have some extra slots.
I am ra 3...
I don't use mines, but i have room to put them on my bar if I so chose to use them.
The main reasons I need all my weapons there is because:
1) They do not all auto-fire.
2) Even if they did, I still would not have them all set to auto-fire.
3) I need to be able to switch auto-fire on the fly for say if I am just keeping my front facing an enemy, or my side, or my rear.
4) I sometimes use multiple types of weapons, such as phasers to diable systems, tetryon to penetrate shields, quantum for a killing blow, plasmas for the boom splash, and so on. Making it so I need to sometimes specify which weapon I want to fire, especially with torpedoes. Right now I am just using all Quantums however I do have a couple different beams.
2) space bar
3) space bar