Will you be able to launch a "please help me, I'm being attacked" beacon in the middle of being attacked? Is there going to be some kind of shorthand so you don't have to do it manually while flying your ship?
TL;DRA quick distress-call option, such as a hotkey or comm-screen button sending a pre-filled beacon template, is being actively worked on so players needn't open mobiGlas mid-attack.
That's actually one of the things that we're working on actively. I'm in the middle of writing up those conditions exactly. How do we do our distress call? That's kind of like the Hail Mary: I don't have time to go into my mobiGlas, I'm piloting my ship. So how can we either put a quick button on the comm screen on your MFD, or just have a hotkey that's like, I need help, here's my SOS?
So we're talking about possibly having a concept of a template, or a highlighted beacon contract with all the parameters filled out, so that maybe you could hit the key and that gets filled out and sent off. And maybe it has a price or not. It's kind of up to you. And then you can let the players respond to it. And the thing I really like about this is, I like the feature a lot, and it's similar to other features in the game: I would like to see things where mobiGlas is always there to give you all the full power that you want, but it's not a requirement to engage in the feature. So I really like the fact that we got acceptance of service beacons to work without opening mobiGlas. And it's cool that now we can do the full loop completely without opening mobiGlas. You can fire it off, someone else can accept it, you can go land, do the thing, and it works. But if you want to get really specific about tweaking it to however you want, you can do that as well.