Greetings Capsuleers!

As we’ve been discussing for some time now, we’ve been working internally on a feature called “Shareable Bookmarks" Today we’re excited to announce the beginning or a public testing period, taking place on our alternate public testing server, Duality. The server has been updated with a recent mirror of Tranquility and is now open so please feel free to log in, test out this feature and tell us what you think!

To bring everyone up to speed with the feature, lets recap the details!

Shareable Bookmarks

The Shareable Bookmarks system will entirely replace the existing bookmark or saved location system, allowing you to create links to locations in space that can be navigated to (through the right click menu or places tab of the People and Places window). Whereas previously, Capsuleers could create bookmarks accessible to either themselves or their corporation, this system is designed to be less restrictive and more flexible. In almost all other ways these new bookmarks would be functionally identical to the existing system (for example, we do not intend to change the rules about what you can point a bookmark at).

1. Bookmarks are stored in folders, which are accessed through Access Lists.

Those folders can be shared with your corp, alliance, coalition, friends, whoever you want!

Folders can contain sub-folders to allow bookmarks to be further organized (Existing bookmark folders would be converted into sub-folders).

Sub-folders are just a one-level organisation tool, they cannot be nested and do not have individual permission settings.

Shared folders must be “subscribed” to - they do not pop up automatically.

Shared folders can be linked (By dragging the folder into a text field) to allow anyone with access to subscribe.

2. Shared folders have multiple Access levels, each of which can be assigned an access list

View – View, Warp to bookmarks

Use – Add bookmarks, Edit/Delete own bookmarks, Copy Bookmarks to a different folder

Manage – Edit/Remove bookmarks or subfolders

Admin – Delete/Rename Shared Folder, Change ACL

3. Capsuleers can set Shared Folders they have subscribed to active/inactive

Only bookmarks in active folders will be visible in space (r-click menu, sensor overlay, brackets in space).

Bookmarks can only be added to active folders.

Capsuleers will have a maximum number of active folders at any time.

4. Bookmarks can be set to expire automatically

Bookmark can be set to expire automatically after some time (from a set pre-determined choices).

Bookmarks saved in Folders or Sub-folders will default to the previously selected expiry setting.

5. Addition/Removal/Editing of Shared Bookmarks, Folders and Sub Folders will happen instantly (pending performance testing) for all characters with access

The ability to warp to a newly created bookmark will now have a hard delay of 2 minutes rather than the old 5 min cache time.

Bookmarks that you cannot yet warp to will not appear in right click menu.

6. The new proposed limits to bookmarks and folders, Personal and Shared, are as follows. Please note that these numbers may change based on performance testing:

Bookmarks in Shared folder = 500

Bookmarks in personal folder = 3000

Maximum active shared bookmark folders = 3

Maximum active personal bookmark folders = 5

Maximum bookmark folders created and existing = 30

Maximum bookmark folders known = 30

For the less arithmetically inclined, that will mean a new total of 15,000 (active) personal bookmarks and 1,500 (active) shared bookmarks, compared to 13,000 personal and 500 corporate currently.

7. All existing personal and corporate bookmarks have been converted

All bookmark vouchers have been converted to new bookmarks for their respective owners (Capsuleer or Corporation).

Please be aware that after the voucher conversion your total bookmarks can exceed the limits, which might cause client performance problems. You may find that you need to delete some bookmarks to be able to add more.

Existing Corporation bookmarks have been converted to a shared folder.

A transitional access list has been created for each corporation that includes the CEO and directors, this access list will be used for the “Manage” and “Admin” levels of any corporation bookmark folders, and the default corporation access list will be used for the View and Use access levels.

As this feature is still in development, expect there to be some bugs, and some placeholder UI and text. Please report any issues you experience, and provide feedback for any things you feel should be improved. Some specific known issues to note for now:

The options for bookmark expiry are not final.

Some of the text (like help text or error messages) is not final.

Localized names of the transitional corp access lists are not not fully functional.

There we have it! We’re very excited to bring this feature into your hands. Thanks for taking the time to read this thread and please join us on Duality to test this feature out. We look forward to the discussion!

CCP Lebowski for Team Five 0