Player Features and Ideas Discussion

With Retribution, CCP improved the targeting reticle and locked target brackets. Now CCP is introducing new in-space icons for the scan results with Odyssey. Yet despite this, we still have the plan white and bare brackets for legacy celestials such as stargates, planets, and stations. I think it's fair to assume CCP plans on updating these soon to match.

How would you all feel about new shiny brackets for those older objects? Would you prefer the brighter and more noticeable colored versions, or would you prefer to stay with the old ones? Perhaps a mix between the two? Do you simply want updated versions of the current brackets, without increasing their size or visibility, just the shape and look?

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Personally, I'd like to see unique and interactive brackets for objects in space. I'd like to be able to hover over the bracket for a few seconds and have a menu pop-up (similar to the CQ hover menus) allowing me to use common commands.

For example, hovering over a stargate icon would bring up an info box on it. You'd be able to see what the name and security status of the destination system is, with an option to warp to or jump. For a station, you'd see who owns the station with an option to warp to or dock.

For objects that you're "on grid" with, you might have more information and options available depending on what the object is. Maybe a planet's bracket turns into a giant scanning grid that displays PI colony icons or active DUST hotspots down there. A moon might list the available material to mine if you've scanned it, or a station might show what services are available.

I would not support hover menus for player ships, drones, or NPCs. That would contribute to screen clutter if you happen to have your cursor somewhere in the middle of a major fleet fight. I'd only like to see these on major objects.

Omg. No automatic popups! There is too many of them everywhere blocking visibility of things already.