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Pinkerton · 6 Dec 2004, 05:34

Having the fleet page combined with the mission page would be nice.

Forest · 6 Dec 2004, 09:01

If I could have one page back fomr the old days, it would be the old style missions page, being able to luanch 3 fleets at the same time etc was much better timewise.

barney · 6 Dec 2004, 09:49

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Having the fleet page combined with the mission page would be nice.

i gather pinkerton is also getting at the ability to transfer ships between fleets and launch them on the same page. maybe like todays fleet page with buttons for launching the fleet under each individual fleet??

noah02 · 6 Dec 2004, 16:46

why is there a fleet and a mission page anyway?
Merge them

aceshot · 6 Dec 2004, 20:03

ummz, to liven up the game maybe?!?!
many people coming home drunk from parties, and launching wrong fleets places, and merging fleets together...oopsy etc...

Having two pages pwns tbh.

Makes it a little more realistic. i mean if u played an rpg game, and had to transfer fleets from one bay to another, would you see those at the same time? No!

So...in theory having the fleet page and the mission not only saves that but also can save download time.

Vencedor · 18 Dec 2004, 10:01

I think the pages should be merged...

Then, rename the page to something like "Fleet Command"

So it covers both moving of ships and giving missions

Slowfinger · 18 Dec 2004, 11:50

Merging the pages would make it easier for all.

Allowing multiple launches would make it easier for all.

Add a checkbox to the launch tabs though

wakey · 18 Dec 2004, 12:15

I was led to believe that the splitting had a lot to do with load issues, its not something which is probally a problem atm but if PA ever does start to make a turn around it does potentially become a problem with a single page being called so many times. Noth these pages are fairly popular pages and while split they can be load balanced to one server is not being overloaded, combined this would obviously not be as simple. As such we could see the pages merged and then have to be unmerged again later.

So i'm not really sure i see the benifit of merging these pages, although i do agree with Forest that we should eb abel to issue more than one fleet command at once. Oh and maybe a few more ship movement boxes would be good as 4 can sometimes be a little restrictive

Vencedor · 18 Dec 2004, 13:58

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Originally Posted by wakey

I was led to believe that the splitting had a lot to do with load issues, its not something which is probally a problem atm but if PA ever does start to make a turn around it does potentially become a problem with a single page being called so many times. Noth these pages are fairly popular pages and while split they can be load balanced to one server is not being overloaded, combined this would obviously not be as simple. As such we could see the pages merged and then have to be unmerged again later.

So i'm not really sure i see the benifit of merging these pages, although i do agree with Forest that we should eb abel to issue more than one fleet command at once. Oh and maybe a few more ship movement boxes would be good as 4 can sometimes be a little restrictive

Yes I didn't think of that
Your probably right Wakey

Also, I agree, more ship moving boxes on the Fleets page...
And make it process them in order.
So I could like do
Move ALL SHIPS from BASE to FLEET 1
Move HARPY 99999 from FLEET 1 to BASE
and it wouldn't just do nothing cuz the harpy's aren't in fleet 1, aparently, even tho the command should be processed and then they would be there
Get it?

Kal · 17 Jan 2005, 13:31

going to check with spinner on the reason for seperate pages

Spinner · 17 Jan 2005, 15:22

Seperate pages came in earlier due to several things.
1: A LOT of info to display, so a much bigger page
2: Code-wise it is cleaner to seperate them, as they do entirely different things
3: In the old days, load was an issue on it (not been an issue since we moved to mod_perl though)

I do not think we will merge them.
However, as it said here, launching multiple fleets can be arranged, as can several more move-slots if desired.

When it comes to processing the move-orders, hm, I'll check up on it. It certainly would increase load, as it would need to reload fleet data between each operations to make sure everything is correct...but I'll have a look.

Kal · 17 Jan 2005, 15:24

I think thats a decline but we will look at other ways of improving the missions interface