Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Back in the old days, EVE Online modules had no graphical activation timers at all. When you turned on something like a web or a gun it mysteriously glowed green until switched off, then glowed red for some reason for a while and was finally dormant again and ready to be used.

But now we have a better way! These little white circles travel around our modules to tell us where in their cycle we are. They're somewhat buggy and often desynched from the actual gameplay but still much better than the previous glowing things.

What would be very handy to have added are module reload/cooldown timers that are similar to the activation timers. Make them any color you want, though probably not red since the 'off' timer is already red. Blue or something?

Anyway, the graphical reload timer should travel around the gun just like the activation cycle timers do; a brief flash for lasers, 5 seconds for Hybrids and X seconds for everything else, including probe launchers and anything else you might put charges in.

Cooldown timers differ just a little bit: they're there to tell you when you can next activate that module. Modules that need this functionality are:

Cloaks
Bomb Launchers
Remote ECM Burst
Doomsdays
Cynos

I can't think of any others off the top of my head, but essentially any module that has a use cooldown separate from it's cycle time should have a cooldown timer added that runs after the cycle time to graphically illustrate how long until that module can be reactivated. In fact, having a digital countdown upon mouseover (just like the new aggro timers do) would be an amazing addition too.

This cooldown timer is even more important in Time Dilation since it's impossible to know without a concrete timer how much subjective gametime has passed since a module was last activated, this makes using Doomsdays and Remote ECM Burst in capital fights weird and dangerous - the only way to see if your timer is up is to try and fire the module again.

Anyway this is a relatively Little Thing and shouldn't take too much design and implementation time that would improve gameplay for most players in a positive way.

This is particularly annoying for something like bombs, where you have to pull your pants down only to find that you can't actually use the restroom yet. And now everyone is staring at your business.


EDIT: NUXI beat me.

Please make this happen(If possible...)

Shouldn't be hard, there's obviously already a cooldown timer already in the code (how else would you keep track of it).

Throw it at the UX team, they'll figure out something cool.

I like this idea..+1 from me..

A good idea that was posted on eve-o!?

This would be a Good Thing

This would be seriously useful. Do this.

I cleaned a few troll posts from the thread.



Keep it on topic please folks - ISD Type40.

Maybe some love for those of us who are colorblind as well?