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Q: How it is indicated if enemy is alpha volleying you?
A: Well... You are going to see that single, powerful pulse effect around your ship... It will be blue-ish...

Stay on target.
We're too close!
Stay on target!
Loosen up!
Gold Five to Red leader, lost Tiree, lost Dutch.
I copy, Gold Leader.
It came from... behind!

I think the same, if we have to change something, then why not change everything, so it will be more esthetically pleasing and improved for the sake of customization, intuition, speed and scalability.

For now nearly every thing is square and it works too.

That is also a really nice UI.

Just a little update in case you are interested... yesterday there was a lot of discussion on my team about this project (I was sickish so I was working from home and missed it all) and it continued today.
I've put the lock counter back, but will be removing the decimals (unless I find out that people find them VERY important).
We talked a lot about the health bars and will most likely be making them counterclockwise and that it's obvious where the circle starts and ends.
And the work just continues, we still have almost 2 months until we release
(of course we can't update you on every step we take, but I just wanted to share this with you)

Yay lock counter! :D

maybe sort it to 2 significant figures so when its over 10 seconds its not showing decimals and when its less it shows 1 decimal place. that way you can work around the counter as always having 2 numbers and itd be easier to optimise placements of things.

=)

So long as everything it moves in a continuous (lock counter, damage inflicted and defensive layers) direction I'm fine either way. but clockwise prograssion of damage just seems more... proper.

That said I'm not sure counterclockwise is terribly intuitive even considering the HUD. But if we are talking consistency then another way to look at it is the HUD's clockwise motion is beneficial (my HP) where the clockwise motion of my targets HP indicator is non-beneficial (they are regaining HP).

Ofcourse one could look at the opposite and say regaining HP moves clockwise whereas loosing HP moves counterclockwise...

I see the conflict now, I think...

I liked it, until you said "one less thing cluttering up the overview". Well, as it is today we rarely have to look at targets/brackets, we have to look at the overview, or tactical overlay. We want range, distance, type, name (if in fleet and FC calling targets that way), and then either radial or transversal (or both). If you suddenly remove one or a few of these from the overview, we will suddenly have to look at two places - overview as well as target.

Basicly what is happening here is CCP doing two things:
1) They're adding new options to see lock range and "threat" etc on the bracket. I.e. something we can't read out from targets or overview or similar today. (those who have zero interest in this new information won't have to pay attention to how brackets look, either, so nothing is 'lost' there, it's just a pure win for those who want more information).
2) CCP is also changing the look of targets, hitpoints, lock time bars etc. This is a separate issue.

When you're requesting information to be removed from the overview, to the new targets, then you're adding a separate third issue that is unrelated to two things CCP currently is doing. And you create issues by doing this: you're virtually making the overview 'worse'.

That being said, I wouldn't mind having the information on the target, like you described, but the emphasis is on "adding" it to the new target box. Not 'swapping it away/removing it from the overview'. It'd give alternate ways for people to view limited information. But don't force us who keep a wide variety of intel to have to watch several spots, that'd make the game considerably worse and harder to play, for no reason.

(otherwise I liked your post)

One decimal please, it's quite vital at times when you're running against multiple e-wars etc. The same applies, like someone else suggested here earlier, that it would be helpful to have that show on the distance (to targets, in km, on overview) as well. If you're running boosts, faction modules, etc, sometimes you might end up with xx.x range, and game rounding things up.. you start to wonder why you lost your point on a target that should've been in range, etc. No need for more than a single decimal, but it would help greatly both in timer bar + overview distance.

Thanks for the update, as well.



..that! Excellent suggestion, it solves the decimal request for us, as well as keeping it a bit smaller for you guys. Giefv.