Ships & Modules

Hey everyone

We launched the new tooltips a few days ago and we’ve gotten a lot of feedback. Getting quick access to useful information is pretty awesome and I’d love to extend this type of functionality to other modules down the road.

There are a few issues we need to deal with though, primarily relating to the speed at which it pops up and the positioning of the box. We’re going to add two things today: First of all, we’re going to add a one second delay when hovering over modules, so the pop-up is less intrusive. Secondly, we’re going to move the tooltip away from the module you hover over. These two changes should make the feature more useful and hopefully less intrusive for the players that are not interested in constantly seeing the tooltip.

Other changes we’re looking at:

Global tooltip delay setting: This would be an option to set a global delay to ALL tooltips, somewhere in the 0-3 second range. It would be located in the escape menu and is in my opinion the ideal solution. The downside is that it will affect a lot of different tooltips and making sure it works correctly across the game takes a bit of time.

Disabling tooltips completely. This would basically be a button that lets you disable all tooltips in the game by selecting it. That means no more stuff popping up anywhere, giving you a cleaner UI if you feel the tips aren't helpful anymore.

Re-vamping the size and content of the window. I’m wondering if we shouldn’t condense the gun and ammo part of the tooltip into a better format, so the tooltip still contains the same information, but takes up less space.

Disabling the module tooltip only. Adding an option to disable a single type of window isn't the best solution. We already have a myriad of options regarding the HUD and adding another one isn't really ideal. This is really using a chainsaw on the problem and while it definitely remains an option, it's certainly the least attractive one. If the more graceful solutions aren't enough though, we can revert to this.

Anyway, the delay and position change is being implemented today. Feedback is appreciated while we consider the longer term options.

Why is this in ships & modules? You'll propably get more people(trolls) to reply, if you put this in GD or the information portal or at least advertise this feedback thread there.

If you have the HUD aligned to top, the tooltips appear below the module you are mousing over.

Yep, that could work.

After this patch, you mean? If so, thanks, tooltip covering the r-click menu while swapping ammo was a major issue.

I personally feel that screen estate is extremely valuable and scarce resource in EVE, and having the option to completely disable the module tooltips would be the optimal solution.

The one second delay is an improvement for clutter but what about when I need to find the range of my different modules NOW, especially when they are being overloaded. Dilly dallying on each one for a second or more is impractical as in a combat scenario my mouse will be wholly committed to that action, these few seconds can be vital.

Thank you - The idea is good, however currently it is as pleasant to look at as having a torn in the eye..

I think someone mentioned removing the icons in the box. Also plz look into transparancy (square black box looks awfull) and consider using the same glowing green edge style as Aura (they look awesome) and perhaps fix the vertical location of the box so it only slides from side to side depending on what module the mouse is hovering over?

Pinky

oh yes and also I feel like not everything needs a picture, with hardeners and whatnot it is showing me a picture of the thing I'm mouseing over

while you are tinkering with the HUD, is there a chance we could streamline the reloading process? each time i click on the wrong missile type in the context menu, i have to supress the urge to punch the screen...

edit: how about middle clicking a weapon group shows a speech bubble with all available ammo types as fat-finger-proof icons?

Love the new tooltips! Very useful, however I was flying my stealth bomber yesterday and found some of the module tooltips (such as cov ops cloaking device) to not really give any extra information. Are there plans to make even passive modules provide extra information about their ~passive~ effects?