Command GTA: Gateway Traffic Announcement

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From two recent upkeep shortages on link Circe - Montem, it becomes obvious that:

  • Players don’t keep MU open, or don’t check it regularly
  • Players don’t check GTWT before every flight
  • Players might yet seldomly check GTWT when planned flight route is not using gateway as expected, instead they’re more likely to ask “why my ship is not using gateway” in chat.
  • Game doesn’t trigger a notification to players on upkeep status changes of gateways

Since it’s not practical to ask everyone to develop the habit of checking MU and GTWT before every FTL flight, only solution seems to be creating a notification. But not everyone need every status update about every built gateways in entire universe, I figured we can get some ideas from Traffic Announcements in real life.

Idea is to have a new command GTA Gateway Traffic Announcement which is a list for all constructed gateways in universe, as shown as this demonstration below (F12 edited GTW):

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  • Status: Status of a constructed gateway, only include operation status (Operational, Insufficient Upkeep, Insufficient Fuel, Overcapacity)
  • Status Since: For how long current status is active
  • Notification: Whether status updates on this gateway should trigger notifications to player
  • Buttons: View gateway details & notification toggle

GTA would automatically create a notification to all players watching a gateway when its operational status changes (yes F12 again):
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Clicking on that notification opens GTA, or GTWT of respective gateway.

In order to prevent players never realising existence of GTA, game could automatically watch a gateway pair for player once their ship have flew through it (include unfortunate situation that their flight through that gateway is failed for whatever reasons)

GTA would be a perfect overview of all constructed gateway’s operational status that can benefit everyone massively: Regular players can see if the shortcut to their CX station is operational, shippers can easily spot disruptions in entire gateway network and adjust accordingly, and governors and contractors can quickly know if their gateways are in good conditions.

And yes I intentionally made the command to be GTA

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