Coriolis.io - A new ship builder and comparison tool

Redfox · Jun 29, 2015

Gave it a try and liked it - really nicely done, thx.

One thing made me wonder while playing around with my imaginary clipper: Why does the "1A Prospector Limpet Ctrl" have a power usage of "-0.28"?

http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_...2m2m040404-0605451vC0C0P42o.Iw18aQ==.AwiMIyuo

Redfox · Jun 29, 2015

You Sir - I do hope you're also doing this stuff for a living.

Thanks for the quick fix within 5min!

Serpent · Jul 2, 2015

cmmcleod I have a request that can enhance the user experience on phones. Could you please add an option to hide/disable certain elements of Coriolis? I will explain. For example on mobile I have no use for the two range graphs and it greatly increases scrolling, so I would like a setting to disable sections such as those graphs. Also there are times that power management is irrelevant so I would like to hide that on the phone while retaining the little graph of used/available power.

Do you understand what I'm asking?

This would allow to refine mobile experience according to specific situations by showing only what's relevant. Since the screen is so small and there is so much scrolling needed due to the quantity of presented information, disabling and enabling certain sections in settings would be a great compromise. Can this be implemented?

Xeonyx · Jul 2, 2015

Just stopping by to say that the site is amazing, both regarding utility and usability. Keep up the good work !

PenguinActual · Jul 2, 2015

This replaced Shipyard for me.

M00ka · Jul 2, 2015

Agreed with all, this is the only tool I use to work out ship configuration now and have told all my mates. Lots of converts this side of the pond.
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Brilliantly done, great program.

Chance- · Jul 2, 2015

ED:Shipyard is an awesome site and has served me quite well but I do believe I've moved on now. Great work to the both of you though!

Akatsuki · Jul 2, 2015

This is probably the best ship builder I have come across thus far. Kudos!

Soopyyy · Jul 2, 2015

cmmcleod said:
It's online now.

Thank-you very much!

Purchase locations for modules and ships would be awesome. Perhaps it could be setup to allow users to modify that database according to where they find them?

cmmcleod · Jul 2, 2015

Serpent said:
cmmcleod I have a request that can enhance the user experience on phones. Could you please add an option to hide/disable certain elements of Coriolis? I will explain. For example on mobile I have no use for the two range graphs and it greatly increases scrolling, so I would like a setting to disable sections such as those graphs. Also there are times that power management is irrelevant so I would like to hide that on the phone while retaining the little graph of used/available power.

Do you understand what I'm asking?

This would allow to refine mobile experience according to specific situations by showing only what's relevant. Since the screen is so small and there is so much scrolling needed due to the quantity of presented information, disabling and enabling certain sections in settings would be a great compromise. Can this be implemented?

Yeah I know exactly what you are asking. Let me have a think about some clean solutions. I'll look into it!

Soopyyy · Jul 2, 2015

I wish FD would implement your GUI. So much better than the ingame UI.

cmmcleod · Jul 2, 2015

Soopyyy said:
Thank-you very much!

Purchase locations for modules and ships would be awesome. Perhaps it could be setup to allow users to modify that database according to where they find them?

That is a feature I would like to add, but it's going to be tricky to implement a crowdsourcing system for this. I am following the EDDB project closely and will put data from it if it becomes available / relevant.

Soopyyy · Jul 2, 2015

Oh, another idea that might be a bit out of the scope. What about an image of each ship that has markings for the locations of each hard point that highlight when you select the corresponding hard point in the list. Certain locations are better for certain weapons depending on what you're doing.

cmmcleod · Jul 2, 2015

Soopyyy said:
Oh, another idea that might be a bit out of the scope. What about an image of each ship that has markings for the locations of each hard point that highlight when you select the corresponding hard point in the list. Certain locations are better for certain weapons depending on what you're doing.

I'd love to do that too, using 3D models and HTML5 canvas, etc. Maybe sometime

Serpent · Jul 2, 2015

cmmcleod said:
Yeah I know exactly what you are asking. Let me have a think about some clean solutions. I'll look into it!

Thanks, that would be really great and improve experience/usability on phones by a lot.

Another detail I wanted to ask you is why have you changed the order of the sections? They are currently Standard, Internal, Hardpoints and Utility. But shouldn't they be Hardpoints, Utility, Standard and Internal? That's how it's displayed in-game in Frontier's outfitting interface. Would make it more intuitive and in line with what is found in the game.

Serpent · Jul 2, 2015

Also, bug report: something got messed up with the last minor updates. The adaptive interface is not working properly on Safari (OS X) as the menus and text get cut on the right. Even on large windows in a 5K display. They work well on Chrome and Firefox though.

bisador · Jul 2, 2015

The retrofitting costs are great BTW

Its useful to see the overall cost when you're loading your saved builds and the cost of multiple updates.. well done sir!

cmmcleod · Jul 2, 2015

Serpent said:
Also, bug report: something got messed up with the last minor updates. The adaptive interface is not working properly on Safari (OS X) as the menus and text get cut on the right. Even on large windows in a 5K display. They work well on Chrome and Firefox though.

That doesn't sounds good!

I'm unable to find any issue on Safari 8.0.6 (OS X). Can you (or anyone else with this issue) provide screenshots?

Serpent · Jul 2, 2015

Here is a screenshot on the latest version of Safari. Look at the right, interface gets cut no matter how I resize the window.

Rottcodd · Jul 2, 2015

It is correct in corolios.io - but in your opening post in this thread you give the Fed dropship an armour value of 300 and a manoeuvrability 0 + giving it a cost of 25 millions.
That might put some people off