[Request] UI Friend Tracking System

[Reaper2096]

Dont know if this has been suggested before, i had a look but could not see anything offhand.

i would really like to see a better way of tracking friends, choosing private group is great for getting on the same server but after that your trying to find each other in SPACE! granted you can meet at a station, and sort of keep track of each other in supercruise but its very easy to lose track say, in an mining belt. or places with heavy traffic where you get separated maybe by getting ambushed

Some may disagree but perhaps an option to enable UI to treat friends like Planets when it comes to tracking, a sort of system wide tracking so your friends show up in contacts as long as your in the same system. with the option to turn this off should anyone complain about "ruining Immersion" or some drivel that roughly equates to them having no friends.

again sorry if this has already been mentioned.

 

[TiberiuS]

I'm +1 here.

You could see it as an option, too. Where you can set a 'Transmit location to friend' on/off-switch for every friend you have. This way you could also determine which friends can track you. (because not all 'friends' may be friends).

The signal is only transitted in the same system like a nav point (to lock on), so you can drop out of supercruise at your friend's location. This is especially useful for escort/group flight when one of your friends gets interdicted, when doing a coordinated attack or when he is at a USS you want to drop out, too (because sometimes you don't see them).