Friendly Crosshairs

[Genocide Jill]

It's a workaround to IFF-less ships being incredibly difficult to deal with. Pirate ID ships, Freelancer ID ships, that sort of thing. Shooting a swarm of neutral targets as a capital ship requires constant retargeting and is absolute agony.

It's a double-edged knife, though, correct. The fact that it also marks friendlies and even little cargo containers is unfortunate. We've investigated a few things to see if we could make it more precise (neutral and below, for example, not including friendlies) but that's not how this change works on a technical level. Maybe we can somehow make it not appear on grouped players? We'll see.

We're aware of it but as of right now I think the positives outweigh the negatives, but not by much.

Retargetring as a capital ship is done either way - from my personal experience, at least, and it's not often in PvP we're facing a whole lot of freelancers of pirates to call this a crippling issue or agony, you know this well enough playing both snubs and capital ships. It was true before the 5.0 dropped and it still is. In fleet fights, faction forces are mostly composed of ships in possession of an IFF, while some snub occassionally making passes before the capital ship is an issue as it often enough sidetracks the crosshair.

The positives, which I personally haven't observed now - and I've been to quite a few fleet fights in the two weeks since the patch - definitely don't outweight the negatives of an annoying little crosshairs sticking out on literally any object in sight.