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There are parts of this that are great, such as clusters of items that now pop up a list from which you can select actions to perform on the one you want, useful for navigating dense clusters of POS mods, for example.

However there are parts of this that are annoying, and sadly I'm finding more annoying aspects of this change than I'm finding positives. The two most annoying things for me are:

1) Hovering over a truncated column entry in the overview no longer expands the truncated text; instead, it displays the new tooltip for that type of item. Previously I could hover over an item and click the right one after reading the expanded text instead of now requiring multiple clicks and potential mistakes. For example, "Jita IV Moon 4 Caldari Navy Assembly" vs "Jita IV Moon 4 Caldari Business whatever" only displays "Station" now instead of the name, depending on the width of that column.

2) The delay between showing and removing the tooltips are more twitch than a Quake gamer still awake after 72 hours of caffeine and sugar induced hyper-awareness. The rapid, almost flashing, tooltip graphics demand constant attention from your eyes, distracting from anything that might be happening that is important. If the tooltip graphics were any larger, they might run the risk of inducing seizures in particularly sensitive people.


I suppose that including the truncated text in the tooltip could partially restore previous functionality that was lost with this change. If you do this, please take care to be location-aware and include the correct column's information.

If we could have a way to modify the tooltip delay, we could reduce the distraction associated with #2. This may be sufficient for many.

For others who truly are displeased with the new change -- and some will be -- an option to disable them completely would be welcomed. It would be even better to have a slightly more granular enable/disable option, as the weapon/module tooltips that were introduced long before this most recent change were very helpful.


More preferred would be to have a "New Player" setting and a "Minimal" setting, in addition to a "Disabled" setting. The current implementation would be the New Player setting, as it does greatly aid new players as they're getting used to the nomenclature of the game.

The implementation present immediately before this change would be the Minimal setting. It has some useful information, but doesn't clutter every inch of the screen with tooltips.

Then the Disabled setting is self explanatory. No tooltips, no weapon information popups, nothing.

I would actually use the minimal setting, were this suggestion implemented. I do like the weapon/module popups, but in general not most of the other tooltip/popups.

So some tooltips are great and super helpful to new players. However, when selecting an item from space right now the tooltip pops up. When a system is TiDi'd, the tooltip is also under TiDi. This means that selecting a target (bad guy ship/drone/etc) from space becomes hilariously difficult.

Will bracket tool-tip logic and the other changes sufficiently address this?

This new list of items when scrolling over a group in space has potential, but it needs to be faster and more persistent. What I mean by that is when I scroll over a cluster I need the group to pop up instantly and I need the list to persist long enough to get my mouse on it and it needs to persist until I move my mouse off of it. Right now you can be hovering over an item in the list and the list can disappear.

After reading the comments of other this seems to be a very play-style dependent concern. The ability to customize the features I listed above would be comprehensive in my experience.

I start to get lost on this whole tooltip-debacle... and therefore I need to get some answers. Please developers, I am sure you can help.

And this is not meant as an offense, and I am very well aware that the last two days may not have been the easiest in your professional life. And I do have compassion for you, since you are surely not the sole responsibles for the decision on this - let`s say "unlucky" - approach with the tooltips.

> I was getting from your last post on the actions you plan to take: the "ON/OFF" switch is high effort to realize. O.K. But that means, it is possible, right?

You guys at CCP are putting a lot of effort into bringing new features to us, and most of them everybody likes and appreciates - but a new paintjob, a faction frig, a cool deployable, a revamp of skills & other stuff, whilst great, are not a "make or break" for the game experience.
The tooltips, resp. the popups/lists in space, are a "make or brake". Why not put the effort there instead?

> If it is -for whatever reason- technically impossible to do the "ON/OFF" switch, what prevents you from going back to the working solution as off last week?
Are those popup windows the "hobby horse" of one of your top managers? Is there a strategic decision taken to switch the target group for EVE from adults to boys age 5-10? What is it that prevents you from even taking this easy fix into consideration?

This is not a rhetorical question! This is to find out if it even makes sense to provide feedback. If there is an insurmountable barrier to fix the core problem of those tooltips (popups in space), please just let us know. It could save us all some time.

WHEN are we going to get the OFF switch???
not if, when!
you guys really want to shove this "stuff" down our throats?

are you ready for another of the " we will speak with our wallet" thingy?

do you really want to go there again?

Maybe its a part of the 'Leave No Child Behind'/'Common Core" initiative?

A option to turn off tool tips would be a good idea. Since they truly do clutter up the screen.

Kind regards Celise Katelo

[insert tool tip] [Error] = Cookies

I'm really astonished ... CCP - you run this game for over 10 years now - but you didnt learn a SINGLE thing from your player base.

If people tell you "it wasnt on the test server" - then I tent to believe the players who tested it - and it certainly wouldnt be the first change which got pushed through without proper testing while you insisted on "it was on the testservers" while in truth it wasnt.

those tooltips and especially the background-filling boxes are a PAIN - make them go away FAST or at least give me a switch

if you dont need money from your players please continue your course of action - else you should overthink your actions towards YOUR INCOME BASE

The new tool tips have impeded my ability to do routine tasks such as docking to a station and warping to a specific celestial in a tightly grouped set of brackets, often increasing the time to do such routine tasks by many seconds/clicks. Further, they have hindered my ability to target specific ships via brackets in certain situations in pvp.

While I understand and support the desire to improve the UI, the new tooltips have decreased the quality of my gameplay experience. Please include an option to disable them.