Ships & Modules

Could you pleeeeease try them out... just for me
There is a delay now, so now you can mouse your modules, and the tooltips don't appear right away (1 second is way longer than I thought it was... when I was implementing it I actually timed it to make sure it was only a second because in my head second is so short so I wasn't sure it was doing the right thing )

Ok, I'll test it out later tonight when I get off work. ( they made me stop bringing the laptop up here to play QQ)

ETA: 5h 20m til test sequence

The delay as is just won't do. Some people like the tooltips and want them show up faster (although many of those posts are just trolls) and some people don't. Why doesn't CCP simply accept that fact and make it a yes/no option? The whole thing about "meh, our settings screen is already cluttered" is silly as that seems to mean they're more happy to have the game cluttered than the settings menu, and anyway you can slide it in just below the tutorials option.

Don't make something less good than it should be just because it's easier to code that way, that's showing contempt for both us players as the game itself. "Excellence", "no fear" and "honestly, we learned from our :incarna: mistakes" and all that.

Do it right on the first go or don't release it till you do.

As a rule of thumb, you guys should be trying to make the UI more customizable and remove redundancy and bloat.

The wrong way to go, is to reimagine what thousands of players are already using and comfortable with. You run the risk of alienating a lot of users like with the Unified Inventory.

The right thing is to find those annoying little pain points, and to keep removing them, so that things get easier, rather than busier, harder or more "responsive for the sake of being responsive"

A prime example is the JUMP and DOCK commands allowing warp to zero and the subsequent action.

Another example, is the corp bookmarks.

These are changes that impact thousands of players in a very positive way.

A couple of thoughts on potential improvements....

- Personally, I'm not crazy on showing the module icon in the tootip...
- Put the control of the tooltips behavious in our hands, say via the ESC menu
- Consider implementingthese controls for the following:

Transparency (from almost see-through to current black box)

Size of Tooltip box (while probably keeping the scale of the Tootip)

Appearance Delay - from 0 = "Never appear", through steps from 0.1 to 2.0 seconds

Fade Delay (only enabled if Appearance Delay > 0) - from 0.5 seconds to 5 seconds, with final option of "Stay forever" - until mouse is moved off, as is current behaviour.

Toggle Icons on / off

this delay tooltip, that add today, too long appear... annoying

want fast see(for example how optimal+fallow), but now need long wait

Why do you not already know it? Do you just throw a dart at your monitor to pick your ammo? I don't understand the point of the tooltip since optimal range is something deliberately chosen. Unless it's not, but then you're gonna die a lot anyway.

If you won't let us customize the window ourselves, you can atleast meet us halfway:
1) Remove the icon graphics (we're mousing over the icon, if we've forgotten what module it was already, tooltips are the least of our problems)
1a) Removing the icons lets you reclaim all the extra space the icon is forcing you to add.
2) Create an actual tooltip window that players can move and it will remember that placement. A consistent place where info pops up is how most everything else is done.


Of course, my spring 2013 wishlist would be CCP letting us mod the UI ourselves.

One more thing. Moving the search in the market window, didn't solve a pain point.

Likewise, while these tooltips may add some utility for some users, it doesn't address a particular pain. No one needed persistent access to their ammo or module stats since those don't change very often.

Whenever you guys add in "new" functionality, please add a default option to disable it or avoid it altogether. Don't assume you know better than us how to play the game, because I can assure you, you don't.

With the lackluster ui improvements and General ignoring of feedback I'm kinda glad I have another two weeks before I'm home to look at this tooltip again. Hopefully it will have reached a point by then where it is configurable and doesn't take more room than my chat.

Make it smaller, give it a configurable delay and an option to turn off. Covering all three of these would satisfy every argument I have read so far.

No apologies for the crappy typing, I'm on a !@?")'(")ing tablet that sucks.