Welcome to my first weekly post of the new year! In this week’s post I’ll be primarily discussing some upcoming additions to the client UI that I think most players will be extremely excited about.
What I’ve been working on is a UI addition; specifically, a right click context menu for the Possessions tab of the Character dialog. This new menu contains remote slave commands that can be used on slaves in other galaxies. It currently has five options, but it was coded in a way that it’s easily expandable, so if the feature is popular and people want more, we can do that. The current options on this menu are as follows.
- Release Slave – this was the button option that is currently in the Possessions tab. Selecting the option will allow you to permanently get rid of a slave — don’t worry, it still has the confirmation dialog so we can avoid accidents.
- Leave Stasis – this is exactly like the X-Key menu option with the added benefit that you can issue the command from another galaxy.
- Follow Me – this is also exactly like the X-Key menu option and again, it can be issued from another galaxy.
- Open Inventory – this was adapted from a little known feature of the Possessions tab — if you double click on one of your possessions it will open the inventory. I put it in the menu as well so people know it’s there (the double click command isn’t very intuitive).
- Repair Ship – this will allow you to repair your slaves on the fly, provided you can pay the credit cost needed. That’s right, no more docking to repair. Slaves being repaired must be out of stasis before the command is valid.
These new options are meant to make it possible to manage slaves when you get them stuck in hairy situations while keeping the master safe; for example getting slaves out of a galaxy like Iq’ Bana while safely sitting outside or getting your slaves to return if they get lost. They won’t in any way replace the X menu that everyone is so used to using on for slaves in the same galaxy. Also, the Repair Ship command I created for the Possessions context menu has been added to the X menu as well — as a quicker way to repair slaves on the fly without tracing through menus.
So that’s it for this week’s update. As always, questions, comments and suggestions can be posted in the forums!
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