EVE General Discussion

Hello!

I jst started playing and am having a hard time seeing what I am doing because these big blocks of help text keep popping up whenevr I hold my mouse over something I am trying to move toward or look at. This txt keeps blocking my view of things I want to see. I just got blown up by a belt pirate because I could not see him, and would like to know how to tun this off. I can't seem to figure it out, and the people in new player chat suggested asking here.

Welcome to the newly implemented tool tips.

The idea behind them is to make it easier to get access to information you need and to help new players familiarise themselves with the many complex aspects of the game.

If you feel that they fail in doing so, please add your feedback (particularly valuable from a new player perspective) in this thread. You'll find that your experience is far from unique… Oh, and they can't be turned off because… reasons.

Guess you can increase the tool tip delay to the maximum so they don't obstruct your view that easily.

Troll attempt 0/10.

Thank you. Now I know the right words "tool tips".

There are so many settings and things to remember in this game but this is the only problem so far no one could answer for me in the help chat. I will try to set a delay and see if that helps.

That's hardly a troll either since the stated reason for flooding us with redundant and poorly thought-out information in a slow manner is that it helps newbies. The more newbies that come along and say it's not helpful, the bigger the chance that they'll actually wake up and listen to everyone saying the same thing.

Feedback from the intended target group should get more attention, after all.

To my deepest regret, those messages cannot be turned off.

CCP has deemed them integral to the New Player Experience for whatever reason.

Give it time, someone is always on the cusp of an inevitable meltdown and/or midlife crisis, all we have to do is wait....and watch.The industry changes promise many meltdown's

You don't really need to see anything in the 3D view to play EVE. You can even play it from the solar system map mode in many cases hah. You just need your overhead that shows all the targets and then your clickies at the bottom (though best to use hot-keys for those). Then stack your radar and chat to the left. If you really need to see a target in 3D, click on the target overview and make sure you have the "C" hotkey on to have the Camera auto look and track the selected target. Hovering your mouse on the overview will bring up a huge annoying info pop-up, but you can hold the pointer off to the side and just read it before pointing on it. Otherwise, learn your hotkeys, about the only way to avoid most of those funky new tool-tips. If there were a way, I'd turn them all off apart from weapon calculations.

edit: and another thing to point out with targeting that you seem to be having problems with. Hold the Crtl key then click your target from the overview list. This will start the lock as soon as you select it and them. So you don't need to look for a target in the 3D view at all, and was probably your main problem. Ctrl + Click on overview target list.

I think it's more of an issue when you are armor/shield tanking through your targets as opposed to kiting. Kiting I usually control everything through the 3D view, click on 3D targets and all that, but too hard to do if you are doing orbital dog-fighting or tracking straight through a blob of rats. That's really a job for overview targeting.

I must have missed all the annoucements and fanfare from CCP, but apparently the there is an option to virtually turn them off now. Pres 'esc' and adjust the "Tooltips Delay" option to something towards "long" and they'll basically go away.