Have you considered ships like the Hornet Tracker being able to play a role in designating targets? Will they be able to send info to other ships throughout a fleet?
TL;DRSharing pinned targets is currently limited to within one ship, but the speakers want to extend it eventually to fleets and squads, which needs communication hierarchies and online questions solved first.
Yes. Though the current pinning system is just the first step. It creates the basic logistics to do that in the long term. I mean, for now, we only have the shared pins within the ship, so you can share it with your turret gunners and so on. In the long term, we obviously want to share it with our fleet and then squads and all that, but that's a bigger topic in itself because it requires that certain communication hierarchies and all that need to be established first. And then there's the question how that interacts with the whole online universe and with your friends and so on. It's a bigger question, which we can't approach yet, but it will happen eventually.
I can't overstate how cool it was. I've played in the turret before, and half the time I'm just looking around trying to wonder where everything is because you only see out the side of one ship. Then to suddenly get targets pinned for me and marked, it's like I knew where to start expecting things. It was a delightful improvement.
At some point, I would like to see a commander role that does these things on a bridge or so.