Talk:Covert Operations

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Hi all,

A couple of month ago I realized that ALL gates are pointing into the same direction, regardless where they are placed in space within a specific system. To find out which direction is 12'o Clock after warping to the gate is not easy and might led to invalid Bookmarks. After quite some UI research I found the following solution:

If you press F11 and you look at the mini map you will be given a rotating triangle that indicates the direction you are looking into. Now simply define 'UP' as 12 o'clock and you are set without any ambiguity caused of gate types or designs.

When it comes to avoiding bubbles (except large ones that were placed right on top of a gate) you can put this knowledge to good use too. If another recon pilot tells you that there is a small bubble @80Km-3-x-x at the gate, then it is perfectly safe to warp to that gate from a location somewhere between horizontal 6..8 o'Clock! Seen from the origination point of view the target should be at 12..2 o'Clock.

Early in my Bookmarking career I developed that Clock based coords system too. The horizontal coords were easily to define after I found that F11 solution. But the vertical coords are still not easy to use. After a while I gave up to use the Clock for that too.

The question is, how precise do we need vertical coords? Most of the obejects we warp to are located inside a single plane with literal small to no vertical deviation. Therefor a precise coord system for horizontal aligments only is required. Vertically we do not need such a high precision. At length I came up with a far more less complex or ambigous and much easier to use coord system for the vertical dimension.

Consider the following convention (Adapted to fit into the actual Agony standard well):

|>T11: Taisy@1203 %03-UP-45 <| FLYBY-A
|>T12: Taisy@1424 %09-DN-45 <| FLYBY-A
|>T21: Taisy@2230 %10-UP-30 <| FLYBY-B
|>T22: Taisy@1803 %04-DN-30 <| FLYBY-B
|>TR: Taisy@300 %03-UP-60 <| FLYBY-COV

Horizontal alignment is given by 00..11.
General heading is given by 'UP' for up or 'DN' for down.
Vertical aligment is given by degrees from 00..90 (00,30,45,60,90).

Useful abbreviations:

No horizontal deviation:
%UP = %<any>-UP-90
%DN = %<any>-DN-90

No vertical deviation:
%<any> = %<any>-<n.a>-00

Examples:
|>T11: Taisy@1203 %UP <| FLYBY-A
|>T12: Taisy@1424 %DN <| FLYBY-A
|>T21: Taisy@2230 %10 <| FLYBY-B
|>T22: Taisy@1803 %04 <| FLYBY-B

In general I only use 45 as a vertical deviation modified to 30 (flat angle) or 60 (high angle) if appropriate. If necessary I could use more precise vaules here though.

This kind of free aligment notation could be used as extension to all the other BM conventions we already have in place as well.

What do you think about that?