# Colour drone in space text according to what they're doing

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/colour-drone-in-space-text-according-to-what-theyre-doing/188082>\
**Category:** Player Features & Ideas\
**Created:** [September 6, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/colour-drone-in-space-text-according-to-what-theyre-doing/188082 "2019-09-06T08:24:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maluvious\_Ixitxachitl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/maluvious_ixitxachitl/32/149242_2.png) [@Maluvious\_Ixitxachitl](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Maluvious_Ixitxachitl)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/colour-drone-in-space-text-according-to-what-theyre-doing/188082/1 "2019-09-06T08:24:32Z")

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With some of the drone names being fairly long and screen real estate occasionally at a premium, I thought I’d propose an idea to colour the text of the drones in space according to what they’re doing instead of (or perhaps as well as) appending their action to the end.

Currently if you’re flying drones with a long name, you have to have the drone window fairly wide in order to see what they’re doing. Recolouring the drone name text to match the colour currently used for the action text would allow at-a-glance to see what they’re doing.

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**Author:** ![Cicada\_Adacic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cicada_adacic/32/487434_2.png) [@Cicada\_Adacic](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cicada_Adacic)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/colour-drone-in-space-text-according-to-what-theyre-doing/188082/2 "2019-09-06T09:43:44Z")

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So like \*Red for engaging target and \*Green for returning to bay?

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**Author:** ![Ms\_Steak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ms_steak/32/168834_2.png) [@Ms\_Steak](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ms_Steak)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/colour-drone-in-space-text-according-to-what-theyre-doing/188082/3 "2019-09-06T12:42:02Z")

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> [@Cicada\_Adacic](#):
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> \*Green for returning to bay

yellow for returning, green is for idle.

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**Author:** ![Daichi\_Yamato](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/daichi_yamato/32/252995_2.png) [@Daichi\_Yamato](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Daichi_Yamato)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/colour-drone-in-space-text-according-to-what-theyre-doing/188082/4 "2019-09-06T13:02:44Z")

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This is a pretty good idea. Anything to save window space.

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**Author:** ![Wanda\_Fayne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wanda_fayne/32/377654_2.png) [@Wanda\_Fayne](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wanda_Fayne)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/colour-drone-in-space-text-according-to-what-theyre-doing/188082/5 "2019-09-06T13:38:32Z")

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And/or give us the ability to name the drone(s).

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/colour-drone-in-space-text-according-to-what-theyre-doing/188082/6 "2019-12-05T13:38:35Z")

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