Remote Engineering Question

[Schmack]

When you are in remote engineering and you select a BP to work on (shield boosters, for example) and a series of boosters appears for you to select which you want to engineer. Then you select one and engineer it. On the lower left there is a "back" button. Why, when you hit the "back" button does it take you all the way back to the main engineering menu again instead of the series of modules you were looking at prior to the page you are currently on? That's not really the "back" that most page functions would use, as they would step you out the same way you came in.

I think this is tedious and needs to be addressed unless I am just missing something obvious (like a brain).

 

[Stealthie]

I don't think you're missing anything.

It is a bit irritating when you apply a mod' to, say, one SB and then get kicked right back to the "main menu" rather than being able to directly pick the 2nd or 3rd SB and apply another mod'.

I suppose the only mitigation is that the entire process is filled with needless mouse-clicking so a couple more clicks isn't a big deal.

 

[FatFreddysCoat]

Agreed. Bad design, really annoying. Has been this way forever.

 

[Schmack]

But it seems like a really easy fix and would be welcomed by all I think.

I also don't understand why the power plant goes offline when you engineer it but not when you swap it out. Are they hot swapping these, so we actually have 2 power plant slots? RAID power plants?

 

[Stealthie]

I also don't understand why the power plant goes offline when you engineer it but not when you swap it out. Are they hot swapping these, so we actually have 2 power plant slots? RAID power plants?

I'm sure this is just "head-canon" but maybe your ship is hooked up to a station's power while you're monkeying around with outfitting but the engineers don't leave your ship plugged in while they're applying a mod in case something goes wrong?

If you notice, your shields always recharge seriously quickly when you're docked so it seems like your ship's usually getting more juice from the station while you're docked.

 

[Morbad]

If you notice, your shields always recharge seriously quickly when you're docked so it seems like your ship's usually getting more juice from the station while you're docked.

This was added in 1.5/2.0. Before that being docked did not improve regeneration times.

It's at least ten fold faster while docked now and supplementary power from the station makes perfect sense.

 

[Schmack]

Back "when" you could instantly regenerate shields by low waking. Good times.