Who:
As a Commander
What:
I would like to be able to share bookmarked locations with other Commanders in-game
Why:
Social gameplay between Commanders encourages the formation of long-running groups, and these make the game sticky for existing players and attract new players to the game. The ability to share locations between members allows such groups to set their own goals and spotlight interesting locations on Horizons-only content such as planetary terrain features, persistent points of interest such as structures in space, tourism beacons, ring systems or transients such as system-state dependent Conflict Zones/checkpoints. Base game features such as PvP matches, mining together, cargo trading, rare commodity loading for CGs and group exploration efforts would also be made easier for groups to enjoy using this feature.
The existing wing beacon only allows sharing one's current location with one's wingmates when they are in the same system. This is limited in detail (in-system location only available when in same system), in scope (wingmates only, player groups have now outgrown wing scale), in time (only available when commanders are online at the same time), and in utility (bookmarking another's location for future use must be done manually). Otherwise, location communication is performed manually with unreliable means such as "We will hold the battle at the innermost RES at Dahan 3".
Where:
How:
When:
As a Commander
What:
I would like to be able to share bookmarked locations with other Commanders in-game
Why:
Social gameplay between Commanders encourages the formation of long-running groups, and these make the game sticky for existing players and attract new players to the game. The ability to share locations between members allows such groups to set their own goals and spotlight interesting locations on Horizons-only content such as planetary terrain features, persistent points of interest such as structures in space, tourism beacons, ring systems or transients such as system-state dependent Conflict Zones/checkpoints. Base game features such as PvP matches, mining together, cargo trading, rare commodity loading for CGs and group exploration efforts would also be made easier for groups to enjoy using this feature.
The existing wing beacon only allows sharing one's current location with one's wingmates when they are in the same system. This is limited in detail (in-system location only available when in same system), in scope (wingmates only, player groups have now outgrown wing scale), in time (only available when commanders are online at the same time), and in utility (bookmarking another's location for future use must be done manually). Otherwise, location communication is performed manually with unreliable means such as "We will hold the battle at the innermost RES at Dahan 3".
Where:
- In the context menu on the bookmarks UI in the map interfaces, I would like to see a Share icon as seen in the Android operating system (o<8) , that allows selection of the recipient using the same list of recipients as the comms UI (Local, Wing, Direct comms sessions).
- In the Comms UI, I would like to be able to share current location directly to comms sessions.
- Upon receipt of a shared bookmark/location, this would appear as an inbox message in the recipient's Comms UI with tick/trash icons to either store the received location among one's own bookmarks or reject the message
How:
- Existing system or system body/station bookmarks
- Arbitrary locations in space in a system. A system bookmark would be included in the Navigation tab of the cockpit left UI and in the local bookmarks list of the System map. Upon selecting a system bookmark as nav target, a PoI would be created in supercruise for that player, navigable to as other PoIs.
- Transient system-state dependent locations such as Checkpoints may be bookmarked. When the system state causing these ends, these become arbitrary location bookmarks as above
- Arbitrary locations on surface (see other recent suggestion thread)
- NB that this suggestion. does not imply player-to-group 1 to many messaging semantics. While desirable, this is out of scope.
When:
- Soon(TM), please.
