Data pad and NPC station gps quality of life improvements

Saxmo shared this feedback 15 hours ago
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Don't get me wrong, I love the update to the GPS menu being able to select, toggle on/off, and recolor multiple gps points at the same time. That has been extremely helpful lately.


But, the economy update data pads have become a nuisance to seasoned players. I've just spent 3 days of gameplay moving, renaming, copying and pasting hundreds of data pads. We collect hundreds of them trying to survey a map of the economy landscape while living inside the map. Maybe even provide them to new players to help them navigate deep space or do their contracts. Or sell them to new players. But keeping on top of a collection in the hundreds can get daunting. Some things need to change to make this more manageable.


1. Make data pad title and internal data searchable in the inventory screen. I have over 125 liters of trade station data pads from the same faction, I need to be able to find duplicates and uniques, search specific key words like faction names. At the moment, they all show up simply as "data pad". And I have to hover over every one to see the title, and sort them into small containers to organize them, then look at individual gps point text to find duplicates.


2. Each trade station needs an independent designator to differentiate it from others in the data. I've renamed mine using the last 2 digits on the z axis of the point's GPS as a simple guide. But it would be nice if they came with this independent designator from the start. It would also make them have a more immersive, corporate feeling, than generated by an algorithm.


3. It would also help if the data pad came pre named with a little more information about the faction and station. like if they are a miner or builder faction and if the station is on the surface of a planet/moon, in orbit, or in deep space. This would help save potentially hours of gameplay with just a little bit of information.


4. I've seen it mentioned before, but the ability to lock data pad read/write access, and even encrypt data would be great improvements. So publicly available data pads at a library is not edited by random players, or only readable by faction memebra or alys.


5. The ability to have data pads mass moved from one inventory to the other. At the moment if they contain the SAME Exact info they can be stacked and moved. But if they have unique data, you have to move them one by one.


6. Conveyor sorter be able to sort data pads based on internal data and title. To make the task I literally just did take seconds rather than hours.


There are probably multiple other things that can be improved, but these are just a few off the top of my head. I'll comment on it any additional suggestions.

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