Further improve the ping manager? a simple grouping system perhaps?

5pears5pears Join Date: 2017-06-30 Member: 231470Members
edited July 2017 in Ideas and Suggestions
Hi,
im a new player just reached the end of the story line, i know the ping manager was greatly improved before, but with around 30 beacons and can't arrange them into groups, it's bit tedious... (im bad at navigating through darkness with just compass)
For example, i want to go to the lost river, i'd had to turn on about 7 beacons to let me have a good idea where everything is, but for some reason (probably because i didn't put them down in 1 go) they aren't grouped together, so i had to scroll through all the beacons to find the 7 LR beacons... (yes i did lable them properly, and the color doesn't really help and looks messy)

Anyway im sure the devs use photoshop, it would be great if they can implement similar to the layer groups:

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> [<>] LavaZone Beacons
-..... [<>] Entrance
-..... [<>] Waypoint 1
-..... [<>] waypoint 2 etc...
> [<>] Lost River Beacons
-..... [<>] Entrance
-..... [<>] Waypoint 1
-..... [<>] waypoint 2 etc...
> [<>] Bases
-..... [<>] Home base
-..... [<>] island base etc...
=============================
([<>] = the hide button)

The text version looks bad but im sure everyone knows what i mean :p

Thanks!
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  • AnomalyDetectedAnomalyDetected Alterra Housing District: Planet Vicaron Join Date: 2017-04-19 Member: 229741Members
    I would love this idea, as i appear to put a beacon for:
    • Every base
    • Every Biome
    • Every Wreck
    • Every LR and LZ Entrance
    • Every major precursor base
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  • DragoWhoovesDragoWhooves UK Join Date: 2017-05-30 Member: 230836Members
    +1

    also, convert the radio signal beacons to work in the same way instead of clogging up my inventory
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  • EkUlEkUl Germany Join Date: 2017-05-03 Member: 230214Members
    Like my suggestion.
    1. The group names should be freely definable.
    2. Each group in the ping manager should be visible / hidden with a single click, like the Data Bank.
    3. Each group of beacons should be visible / invisible with a single click.

    This would give us much better options for organize all POI's.
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  • 5pears5pears Join Date: 2017-06-30 Member: 231470Members
    EkUl wrote: »
    Like my suggestion.
    1. The group names should be freely definable.
    2. Each group in the ping manager should be visible / hidden with a single click, like the Data Bank.
    3. Each group of beacons should be visible / invisible with a single click.

    This would give us much better options for organize all POI's.

    yeah agreed, i really hope they implement this ASAP.
    Or at the very least, let the ping manager sort by alphabetical order...

    I requested something similar for elite dangerous (planet markers), but it's been a year and never gotten any reply, i really hope subnautica developers would see this.
    Because IMO, this is something fundamentally needed for exploration games.

    I been watching subnautica almost since the beginning but only purchased it recently, im super happy about this game overall
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