Why does the wing beacon even have an 'off' position?
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Yeah, but the annoyance really shines when you’re doing pvp and crashing a lot.
I got curious and did a bit of searching and it seems they used to function differently. Apparently in the old days they were something you "dropped" at a point and they used to deactivate when you entered supercruise. If this is all accurate, the toggle is some allowance to the transition/the way of implementation being affected by the inertia of the old system.
I don't know where you did this research, but I would love to see it, because I'm pretty sure that's a load of pants.
It's probably just people using the term "drop your beacon" just meaning to turn it on.
The only reason I can think of, is to allow wing members to do something sneaky without other wing members being able to follow them as easily...?
hmm, well I did throw in the caveat because I wasn't thorough enough to be certain
have a see here
Answer To: Wing Beacons! What Are They? How Do You Use Them? ~ And How Useful Are They?
Firstly, I just want to say that I've been getting these questions a lot so I figured that it was time to do a post about it! --------------------------------------------------------------- What are they? Accordingly, wing beacons are beacons that you or a wingman can drop from your/their...
That looks like something that was dropped based on the explanation from 2015, as if it was a physical object that 1 player dropped.hmm, well I did throw in the caveat because I wasn't thorough enough to be certain
have a see here
Answer To: Wing Beacons! What Are They? How Do You Use Them? ~ And How Useful Are They?
Firstly, I just want to say that I've been getting these questions a lot so I figured that it was time to do a post about it! --------------------------------------------------------------- What are they? Accordingly, wing beacons are beacons that you or a wingman can drop from your/their...forums.frontier.co.uk
I certainly don't remember anything like that when wings had just been introduced.
Just a lot of bugs
"is your beacon of on?"
" Yea it should be on!"
"I can't see it, are you sure?"
" It's off, swear I set that to on a minute ago, definitely on now".
"Well still can't see it, need to cycle instance"...
No, metaphorical even then. The beacon was always with your ship, it's just unclear language.
But that post of course describes one of the quickly closed "make money fast" exploits of the old days, where the wing beacon nav-lock range was a bit too big, so you could effectively drop straight from hyperspace onto your destination station for extremely rapid trade profits and no risk of piracy.
It was shut down pretty quickly, of course ... which is somewhat amusing since a Fleet Carrier will from 3.7 let you do almost exactly the same thing even more efficiently.
hmm, well I did throw in the caveat because I wasn't thorough enough to be certain
have a see here
Answer To: Wing Beacons! What Are They? How Do You Use Them? ~ And How Useful Are They?
Firstly, I just want to say that I've been getting these questions a lot so I figured that it was time to do a post about it! --------------------------------------------------------------- What are they? Accordingly, wing beacons are beacons that you or a wingman can drop from your/their...
Yeah, it's just a player talking about they were using wing beacons to get people to stations faster than normal. In fact, I think there was a bug that messed with how they worked for a while, and this might have been talking about how to use that to your advantage.
It was posted in 2015, so seems to fit the time line pretty well.
Anyway, yeah, never been a physical object you dropped.
Suggested redesign ..
What if, say, you were in a wing, and then found a very interesting signal source, one you wanted to keep to yourself, even from your current wing mates.
In this case, you can turn off your wing beacon - and take all the goodies/do whatever was in the instance all to yourself.
Having to leave the wing, takes about half a minute or something? so that might not be enough to enable your selfishness.
Only reason I can think of.
In this case, you can turn off your wing beacon - and take all the goodies/do whatever was in the instance all to yourself.
Having to leave the wing, takes about half a minute or something? so that might not be enough to enable your selfishness.
Only reason I can think of.
