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Wormhole polarity Timer animation.
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Dave kazkade
Lethal Devotion
Escalation Theory
#1 - 2014-10-11 15:10:19 UTC
I was thinking that since ccp has put timers to show when you can cloak, when your done reloading your weapons or modules, why not put a timer on the wormhole icon that shows how long till you are able to jump back in? Something like the timer that shows how long you have till your MTU goes online, just a little Idea. Smile
Phoenix Jones
Small-Arms Fire
#2 - 2014-10-11 15:29:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Phoenix Jones
Dave kazkade wrote:
I was thinking that since ccp has put timers to show when you can cloak, when your done reloading your weapons or modules, why not put a timer on the wormhole icon that shows how long till you are able to jump back in? Something like the timer that shows how long you have till your MTU goes online, just a little Idea. Smile


You run into a issue of amount. On average, a wormholer would/could jump as many as 5 to 7 holes in a 5 minute timespan. Putting trackers up in the overview for each hole, on each side, and making it visually acceptable and understandable to the player would probably be too much UI work to do.

Internally all this stuff is tracked, but to make a UI element out of it that would make sense to the player who have jumped multiple holes would probably be a bit too difficult (not difficult, but it would be a large amount of work for something that.. well really isn't needed all that much.

Yaay!!!!
FireFrenzy
Cynosural Samurai
#3 - 2014-10-11 15:30:43 UTC
you could index them by the location or something to make that less of a thing...

Having to add timestamps to your overview so you can check when you dinged a new system is "totally bogus", as bill and ted put it...
Dave kazkade
Lethal Devotion
Escalation Theory
#4 - 2014-10-11 15:36:45 UTC
Alright, thanks for the feed back, didn't think about it that way.
Alundil
Rolled Out
#5 - 2014-10-11 15:51:51 UTC
Phoenix Jones wrote:
Dave kazkade wrote:
I was thinking that since ccp has put timers to show when you can cloak, when your done reloading your weapons or modules, why not put a timer on the wormhole icon that shows how long till you are able to jump back in? Something like the timer that shows how long you have till your MTU goes online, just a little Idea. Smile


You run into a issue of amount. On average, a wormholer would/could jump as many as 5 to 7 holes in a 5 minute timespan. Putting trackers up in the overview for each hole, on each side, and making it visually acceptable and understandable to the player would probably be too much UI work to do.

Internally all this stuff is tracked, but to make a UI element out of it that would make sense to the player who have jumped multiple holes would probably be a bit too difficult (not difficult, but it would be a large amount of work for something that.. well really isn't needed all that much.


This tbh

I'm right behind you
Thelonious Blake
Miles Research and Development
#6 - 2014-10-11 17:35:14 UTC
Phoenix Jones wrote:
Dave kazkade wrote:
I was thinking that since ccp has put timers to show when you can cloak, when your done reloading your weapons or modules, why not put a timer on the wormhole icon that shows how long till you are able to jump back in? Something like the timer that shows how long you have till your MTU goes online, just a little Idea. Smile


You run into a issue of amount. On average, a wormholer would/could jump as many as 5 to 7 holes in a 5 minute timespan. Putting trackers up in the overview for each hole, on each side, and making it visually acceptable and understandable to the player would probably be too much UI work to do.

Internally all this stuff is tracked, but to make a UI element out of it that would make sense to the player who have jumped multiple holes would probably be a bit too difficult (not difficult, but it would be a large amount of work for something that.. well really isn't needed all that much.


There could be an icon that you have any polarization timer active on you w/o displaying anything more (than maybe say the number of holes you jumped through) and when you mouse over it it displays specifically the timers.

But then again this has to be thought out further because the more info it displays the more free intel you get that you could be remembering yourself if you were persistent enough. You don't want to give such info to a slacker.