Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Couple things I think would make damage notifications much more awesome.

1: Allow users to customize the location on the screen notifications appear, just like you would customize the appearance of targets on screen.

2: Toggle drone damage notifications. Ships with drones get spammed these on screen and renders it difficult to read what your non drone damage is.

3: Separate boxes for drone damage notifications so you can read you other damages without drone damage spamming them away every split second.

4: On the side of a target box or locked target shield/armor/hull readout place a counter that estimates damage your doing over time. A real time DPS rather than the predicted DPS you would see when fitting ships. As well as real time DPS on yourself as an extra option on your hud readout to toggle.

These simple changes could make drastic improvements to combat readability. +1 for support for better damage notifications!

I like some of the ideas, at least maybe even have the option available to show or not show drone dmg but it does clutter up gun dmg notification, and I dont really care about the drone dmg, a Rework of thenotification system would be a refreshing change. : )

I liked how in some games (City of Heroes for instance) you would see the damage as slowly rising numbers from the entity taking damage. I think it would cause extra lag in eve though, so it would need some customization and tweaks.

I've actually started using the log from the toolbar to see the incoming/outgoing damage. I just wish I could bind that log screen to the chat window so it was always there when I wanted to look.

Changes to damage notifications would be great! It lacks so much compared to other games.

I would like to see a DPS counter but I think that might cause some client lag... but if CCP can pull it off that would be really cool

ye i think it will be useful.

Personally the only notification that really bothers me is the Scram/Web notification. If I have a crapload of targets to sift through in a fleet fight, looking for that tiny bluish fan looking thing and the grey/teal looking whatever... It is useless.

There needs to be a much more obvious way to find out who exactly has you scrammed, webbed, tracking disrupted, ecm'd... etc.

In a fleet fight it's almost useless to have your damage notifications on as they can cause that tiny bit of lag that can cause you to get out in your pod, or lose your implants. I do understand that the damage notifications apply to PvE as well and the location of those notifications is TERRIBLE.

I think the circular design of the cap/structure/armor/shield interface is outdated and could use a huge revamp. Maybe offer different ways to display them. If that UI could be modified to something more horizontal that would free up some room vertically to show damage notifications in different quadrants above the "improved UI". Left side for Drones, middle for gun/missile damage, right side for scram/web/ecm notifications (that stay active so you can see who it is).

It would be nice if you could seperate out warp scramble and drone damage notifications...filter them so they don't show (individually), or have the option to display them in a different place (also individually).

Thanks for the support guys!

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