thorny geyser
We have the current dev transmitters on the nav stations and we have ship receivers. The technology is already in the game partially, it just needs to be put onto modules.
Having the ability to put transmitters on our station and ships would allow for a wide array of possibilities, even more than we had with the laser designators. Anything from company gps anywhere to fixed fleet formations would be achieved with this addition.
rapid rivet
There was a reason why we never got the transmitters, forgot why that was though
dusky hornet
They're absolutely horrible for performance if there are too many of them, is why
signal vine
well we figured out ins at this point so it's not that big of a deal
eternal thicket
What about an in-game event: players should donate to the devs the materials, and they will build more retranslators around. So, the coverage of ISAN will be more and more.
rugged wedge
They're absolutely horrible for performance if there are too many of them, is wh...
won't sieges fix that? If some nation is abusing them to affect performance, then more and more people will want to wipe them out
It should be locked behind some type of military nation station if we can customize station types
eternal thicket
But I don't like ISAN, it will allow for automatic ship routes.
So, you can put 10 alt accounts and they will do stuff automatically.
prime steppe
Alternatively, turn it around and make the ones we have infinite range. Code has to change, but at least there will be a way to calculate coordinates
EDIT: Turn it around as in signal 0 at transmitter instead of signal 0 at outside range
signal vine
The issue with that is that at the edge of isan the accuracy is really bot that great, it would only get worse the further out you get, if they did that they'd also need to move them further apart
raven geode
won't sieges fix that? If some nation is abusing them to affect performance, the...
the bad performance is also on FB's side, not us
running them also requires permanent hosting
anyway, there's no real point to this once we get a map, they should probably just delete the existing transmitters and maybe add a client side way to put distance from map markers onto your ui
rugged wedge
Or massively increase the range of the origin transmitters?
raven geode
floating point errors, they become extremely innaccurate
rugged wedge
oh well map will fix most of the problems
thorny geyser
anyway, there's no real point to this once we get a map, they should probably ju...
Assuming good performance, If we can put them on ships, then they have at least a good few uses. Autodocking and formation flying are the first things I think of.
eternal thicket
You can build a sophisticated network of designators within your fleet to do formations