In another thread CaptMattSchwab mentioned
And for the love of that thing beyond the Great Barrier, can we please get even some minor Fleet tools so that maybe we can spark some life again in our fleets who are suffering major bouts of AWOL officers?
Fleets / Guilds are the backbone of any MMO. How can we expect to do anything with our fleet if we don't have the tools to make it happen?
So an open question to the folks on here,
Fleet Tools What's working, what isn't, and what do you want additionally?
Lets discuss the various tools we currently have and explore what sort of new tools we would like.
To head the discussion of Fleet Star Bases off before it begins, lets just say that having a persistent location where a fleet can gather is a given that has been acknowledged officially and will be coming next year (hopefully).
--Update of requests--
- A separate Fleet Forum (non recruiting)
- Player-run Events Forum
- Ability to export fleet data into .csv , including
- Fleet roster
- Last active date
- Fleet Join date
- Bank deposits and withdrawls
- Increased ability to send fleet-wide mailings
- Separate Character Name and @Handle, with sorting.
- Additional Rank slots/divisional rank slots
- Ability to set internal fleet divisions--pvp, research, rp, diplomacy
Comments
Right now we do polls using the RSVP function on an Event. It would be a lot easier if we simply had a tab for polls where people could respond by clicking a radio button.
When you mouseover a player ingame, if they are in your fleet it would be lovely if their was some visual to identify them. One of my Fleeties wanted the person to automatically glow, but I think that might be overkill especially if half your fleet is having shore leave at Quark's.
On the Fleet roster, besides showing the location of the players currently online, have it say which instance where applicable.
Strictly from a tools standpoint, that would be a good start for us.
That being said, the current fleet tools are very nice in comparison to the one's I dealt with in other games. I love the ability to post a website in the fleet profile. The last MMO I was in would ban anyone for even thinking of posting a url to a site. "Our game is the only site on the internet."
So in that sense I love what we have.
One other pie in the sky fleet tool, I would like to see, the ability to check the exchange prices while not logged in.
Hmmm, it is hard to decide one what i would like to see at the moment as well as for the future in part that we need to wait on that of Starbase Fleet locations and so on.
In this thread, i would simply focus on that of very minor areas that can be adapted to the UI and its functionality.
I'd love it if they separated Character Name and @Handle into two columns so that we could sort by either. I wish we could get rid of the pointless Class column.
I'd love the introduction of more Rank slots. 7 is just not enough. As well, the ability to have multiple progressions would be great. Being able to give a user multiple ranks would be nice.
Exporting the Roster to CSV would be very nice too.
Explain, i would certainly welcome it.
Another thread on wanted fleet tools: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=178858&highlight=fleet+tools
That doesn't bother me. I don't use it, but I know some people are always asking for an Engineer to join a particular mission or looking for a Science captain to train a BO. It might make it easier for them to find someone.