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Is it possible on mouse over or click to highlight the entities on your overview?
Currently the EWAR symbols are a bit small and hard see at a glance in the heat of battle.

Using a current iteration as an example is the broadcast feature, which moves broadcasted targets to the top of the overview so that pilots can easily find the fleets target. Or a click which could actually broadcast the targets to fleet members (hotkey + click) which is already implement in the current overview.

If there were 3 target webbing you, shift click on the debuff which either:
- highlights the target (useful in small fleet fight where overview does not need to be scrolled)
- moves the three target to the top of the overview

Mouse over on the Debuff
Easily Identify each of the entities causing this effect

Slightly off topic, but still UI. Would it be possible to allow pilots to use highlighting for targeting rather then security or standings status? Identifying broadcasted targets by colour would be a great way to distinguish pilots in large battle other then the confusing and annoying calling by name.



Colours could be assigned by the FC with either hotkeys or drop down menu or perhaps a keyboard modifier + click (Alt click) which brings up a colour drop down. Other MMOs use symbols to increase coordination of the team such as a triangle above a target, the colour on the overview would be beautiful.

Due to resource constraints we did a minimal implementation that is mean to be iterated on based on your feedback.

Currently it is only tracking negative effects directed against you (debuffs). The plan is to include more things if this goes well and include assist modules and possibly even damage dealt to you.

The immediate goal is to make aggression against you visible and help you react to those that do.

There is a lot we want to do more and we have scheduled time to iterate on this so please keep the comments coming.

hey you!

wouldn't it be cool if those emotes animated?

*gives guilt inducing stare at whoever is on the forum dev team*

I would be nice if these effects wherent stacked up and each application would be thier own.

Alas I would hate to be a carrier at a shoot-ex.

hmm maybe if you mouse over it flys out then you can't cntl click one of the icons. and long as cntl is held freeze the fly out.

you could also have an option to disable flyout without cntl pressed that would drop some annoyances.

My comments....

1. Add Buffs, but make the debuffs perhaps more prominent

2. Make sure theres a bubble (think iphone icon with items pending) on the icon for how many pilots are doing it to you 10ecm put 10 in the little bubble...

3. Ctrl+Click to target the user doing it sounds too easy if you dont do this i'll be SOOO sad.

4. More than 1 person doing it, show context menu when clicked with a tree of names, and clicking one targets that person

4a. or just have ctrl+click target the first X amount of people that you have open targetting spots for.

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I LOVE the idea of mousing over it expanding the single debuff with number icon to a bunch of debuff icons below it with each person's name overlayed on it and u can ctrl+click to lock whichever one but i would think that would be a lot of extra UI work, perhaps an idea for down the road later.... ctrl+mouseover = drop down with people to select = nice

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5. Overview Highlighting when moused over, i really love the idea recommended above for this, you can already do highlighting in UI, and i'd imagine it shouldn't be too hard to check whos causing the debuff, and when mouse over debuff, color those overview people a certain flashy color until mouse off (perhaps even a 5 second delay when u mouse off to get your cursor over to the overview.)

Isn't that the existing notification currently on TQ?

Please give us the option to select which buff and debuff effects are shown. For example, for friendly effects, most pilots in a fleet probably are not going to care who is sending them cap or remote repairs, so long as they stay alive. On the other hand, if I'm a Basilisk or a Guardian pilot, I may want to know who is (or is not) sending me cap. Similarly, a Drake pilot is not going to care whether or not he is being tracking disrupted. And as the number of potential status effect icons increases, so does the potential for sensory overload. This already occurs with the damage/status notification popups.

Also, please allow us to move the buff-debuff icons around, or at leastdisable them. I have the locked target list running down the bottom of the screen, right where the debuff icons show up, due to screen size constraints and convenience. If the status effect icons are left where they currently are, I will have to either move the locked target list into the center of what remains of my field of view (impractical), move the target list back up (inconvenient), or ignore the icons (annoying).

It may even be a good idea to create a movable panel for active effects, negative and positive, which can be filtered and sorted, and from which players can be locked or broadcasted, sort of like a pseudo-watchlist. It does not have to be a window. Maybe something more akin to the locked target list in format would be better.

It is on the whole a very good idea. But the implementation maybe could use a bit more refining.

unless you include a watch list of the crucial ship parameters and their current value, this notification bar has little additional value to what the current overview offers.

so pleae do a watch window that I can configure to show my list of ship paramaters (i.e. max speed, lock range, optimal range of a selected turret etc....) or a watch list that shows the final impact to the parameters like 100% lock range or 50% lock range ....

Looks dumb :/. I'd rather see something slightly more graphically appealing. This feels just so 2003....

Needs to show you are in a bubble and un able to warp at the very least.