Instead of Bobbleheads

I don't really have much interest in adding bobbleheads to my cockpit, or paying real money for them. However what I would love to see, and indeed would pay real money for, would be additional instruments and readouts that I could install!

These wouldn't be balance-changing things; just convenience items and things that tech-lovers like myself would enjoy. Most would already appear in some form or other in the game - this would just be a way for people to customise their cockpit to their liking, and add a bit more of that "space ship" feel with more displays and readouts!

For example:

- A digital or analogue fuel readout that displays your current fuel in tonnes
- A digital or analogue Shield-strength meter displaying your current shield strength in Mj
- A readout that displays detailed information for the currently-selected system body (some of the stuff that you see on the System map, or which is currently hidden when you target a landable planet)
- Number of jumps remaining on your current plotted course.
- Charge state of the Frameshift drive (like the "warmup" bar for the FSD from the Modules panel)
- The enabled/Disabled/Damage state of selected modules.
- Multi-axis velocity readout (X, Y, Z & total velocity)
- Dummy system-diagnostics and status displays.

Stuff like that, so that I could clutter up my cockpit with more cool displays!

Mind you, I am running a 4k monitor, which would make such things easier to read - though you could also add "squint" hotkeys to allow closer examination of the various instruments.
 
- A digital or analogue fuel readout that displays your current fuel in tonnes
- A digital or analogue Shield-strength meter displaying your current shield strength in Mj
- A readout that displays detailed information for the currently-selected system body (some of the stuff that you see on the System map, or which is currently hidden when you target a landable planet)
- Number of jumps remaining on your current plotted course.
- Charge state of the Frameshift drive (like the "warmup" bar for the FSD from the Modules panel)
- The enabled/Disabled/Damage state of selected modules.
- Multi-axis velocity readout (X, Y, Z & total velocity)
- Dummy system-diagnostics and status displays.
Sell it as an app. I want it on my phone/tablet.

Though really, I'm on the fence about this. You're walking a very fine line regarding advantages. Mastery of ED includes mastering the ability to quickly punch through menus, and this reduces that.

For example, pulling the button and finding you're out of SCBs can turn escape into insurance. If there was a readout that reminded you, this aspect of the game would be lost. And things get complicated when you put that readout in a cash shop.
 
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Psycho - good point; you'd want to be careful that such add-on's aren't unbalancing in some way.

I would love to be able to export displays - even if just the current left and right panels - to a separate touch-screen monitor. It would be awesome to use, but it would also be a huge advantage over people who didn't have such a set-up.
 
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