Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think it would be really cool to have tonal alarms, separate and distinct ones for webbing, neuting, and warp jamming.

I like this idea!

In particular, just to add more flashing red things, perhaps have the speedometer pulse from its normal white-ish color to red at a rate of 2 or 3 times per second. And a sound effect to go along with it.

There is another way to notice it... the very hard to see glow thing that reaches out and surrounds your ship.

I've seen it sometimes... but its hard enough to see on a good day.

+1 for extra notifications

make the speed indicater background in HUD flash in different color for webbing and scrambling. higher frequency meaning more effects being applied to you. inifinite scrambling constant background light on. ability toggling this on/off would nice.

audio should definitely be optional. another sound category / more granular settings would be great.

It is possible to disable the individual EWAR notifications on the overview. It's in Overview Settings > Appearance > EWAR.

Frequency is good after you're familiar with it, but it might be clearer if, say, when you're disrupted the speedometer turns yellow, whe n infinitely disrupted or in a bubble then it flashes yellow, when scrammed it turns red. While scrammed, you are necessarily disrupted and overriding the yellow makes sense.

I'd also like to see something a little more indicative of ECM than just not being able to target anymore. While the message "already targeting 0, which is as many as your ship can", you won't find our until you try to target something and the time-bar adjacent to the status dial isn't very helpful, as it shows up also for TD/TP/whatever.

What could add to the effect ("SON OF A ***** ECM IS OP *RAGEQUIT*") is when ECMd, your target list is filled with many entries of "unknown target" and the image is replaced with static or something. You'll know damned well you won't be targeting anything and it'll make it clear that you were just shut down instead of just dampened or moved out of rage. More importantly, you'll know you can try targeting again because the fake targets will have disappeared.

For tracking disruption, all turret modules could be outlined or overlaid in yellow.

When nossed or neuted (you're losing cap either way) the capacitor dots could turn red or flash between yellow and red. Or, maybe, whatever amount was lost to these effects turns red before disappearing so you can immediately gauge what rate you are losing to EWAR rather than normal operation. Support gains from logistics could appear blue before turning yellow in the same manner so that you can also immediately gauge what you are gaining besides normal recharge or cap boosters.

I can't really think of anything intuitive for painting/webbing/dampeners.

I'd also really appreciate if when you are receiving support from someone who is targeting you and not also taking harm from them that you would be "greenboxed" or "blueboxed" so you could immediately determine that it's time to tell your pirate friends to shoo... I mean, you could tell that this person is targeting you to your benefit.

Regardless, I really think it's about time the UI was less ambiguous about the effects you're receiving.

But then it would be more difficult to see which enemy is doing the webbing, pointing, or EWAR. Better to have it linked to those responsible somehow.

Audio cue for being warp scrambled: Sound of a car engine that won't run, just continuous starter noises

Audio cue for webber: sound of squealing car brakes, maybe a visual cue of a parking brake light on a dashboard

Hopefully no one, and I'd expect they would have more to worry about, but something as critical as "you can't run away so you need to quit fooling around" shouldn't be relegated to a tiny icon on a window notorious for jumping around quickly and often being so overpopulated you have to scroll through it.

I'd also like to see something indicating a fleet member is disrupted in Watch List and EWar specific broadcasts (point this, web this, neut this).