http://i.imgur.com/ZJf4kWn.jpg

Bottom right corner(I've used the "Focus" button and replicated with Photoshop). I'm not good at Photoshop but you guys can get the idea, be able to see our pets info like health, distance, abilities(like our BoFFs) and(with the LoR UI update) if they are in combat with someone(Red Alert effect). When using drones or shuttles, use a system like strategic games(when using 3 units, they're considered 1, so their health is based on how many shuttles/drones are alive). This addition would make Carrier captains life easier regarding Frigate/Shuttle/Drones management.

Suggestions are welcomed in this thread

I was just coming to the forum to post a suggestion like this without having seen yours. Please, please, devs, implement something like this. Giving us info in the GUI on our deployed hangar pets is the single most helpful thing you could implement to improve carrier gameplay.

I think it would not work well on smaller screens when you have 12 Pets flying around. (2 bays x 2 waves at 3 per waves.)

As proposed by the OP, each flight group's total status would be displayed as one unit, equating three fighters to one frigate and so forth.

I've often wondered if a UI element similar to how the crew meter works could be added to represent fighter capacity and deployment.

Imagine you have a meter that if you equip a wing of fighters, this is represented on your UI in a hangar display by 6 grey pips or pet icons and when you launch fighters, each of the grey pips turns white and when a fighter is destroyed, a pip on your hangar UI turns grey to show you have 1 less fighter deployed. In the case of frigate type pets, the relevant amount of grey pips would display allowing the captain to see how many he can field.

In the heat of battle a quick glance at a display like this will allow you to see how many of your pets have been destroyed or how many more you can field before you despawn your own fighters to spawn new ones.

I know it's a very simple suggestion, perhaps it could be take further to have each pip go green-yellow-red to represent the health status of fighters, though you would be unable to select a pet from this display.

Just thought I'd blurt this out before I go and waste time on making crude MS Paint diagrams...

Champions Online has a pretty decent UI for Pets in that game. I have often wondered/wished for something similar for Carrier Pets. (For those not familiar, it's basically what the OP is talking about.)

A thousand times yes on something like this. PLEASE DEVS, I need fighter status! To be honest, I'd be happy with even just a number telling me how many of my fighters are still alive and out in the fight.

Agreed with this

Even a small unit box like Sins or Starcraft uses with a percentage or color coding representing the fighter's present health would suffice.

Yes please yes.

Also adding this to other pets (like galaxy saucer or MVAE Vectors) woudl be good, but at least the hanger pets please.