Test Server Feedback

ISIS needs more cowbell… I mean radial menus. I dislike the "click on something to make a new window appear" workflow, and I intensely dislike the "mouse-over, then try to mouse up and to the left to click on something else to make a new window appear while an animation happens in the background." This UI feels like it was developed by engineers.

Here is how I would do it: click on a ship icon in ISIS content to bring up a radial menu containing options: "view model", "show info", "view market details", "show in contracts", etc. Display the fly-by preview for the duration of the radial menu being open.

I don't like the "tooltip" hovering over icons in such a way that I cannot mouse back up to a different row of ships if I inadvertently mouse down to a different row of ships. Replacing the tooltip with a radial menu entry should alleviate this issue. Otherwise consider moving the mouse-over information somewhere else and removing the interactive portion of that display.

Perhaps link from the currently displayed faction's ships to other compatible factions, especially where the pilot has the ability to fly those other faction ships. Thus from the Caldari tree link to Worm from the Caldari Frigate skill, Gila from the Caldari Cruiser skill and Rattlesnake from the Caldari Battleship skill. Clicking on those skills would switch to the Guristas tree (since clicking on the ships opens up the radial menu). You already have the Caldari and Gallente ships shown on the Guristas view.

My CDO demands that you line up the pirate factions with the empire factions that they fall between, or at least try to put some order into their display. Thus the Sanshas logo should appear under and between the Amarr and Caldari logos, Guristas between Caldari and Gallente, Angel between Gallente and Minmatar. Of course this gets confusing when Angel, Serpentis and ORE have Gallente and Minmatar heritage (even if ORE ships don't require Gallente & Minmatar skills).

Thank you for being patient with me as I complain loudest about the work that you were proudest of.

(CDO: it's like OCD, but all the letters are in alphabetical order, like they should be)

It would be really nice to have an ISIS view that shows what ships I can fly by various mastery levels. Then I could ask ISIS, "hey ISIS, show me ships that I have mastery level 3 for" and it would show me … um … hang on a sec, I don't have mastery level 3 to fly anything? What is this nonsense?

Show me the ships I have mastery level 2 for?

Ah, that's better. I like flying the Osprey because I love asymmetrical ships. So let's see what I need for mastery level 3 on the Osprey … [and off I go to disappear into the rabbit hole of training for mastery, having found that I am missing key skills that a large number of ships require for level 3 mastery]

You are missing the Daredevil in the Serpentis ships also.

The sidebar icon has a different style from the other sidebar icons

The flyby effect in the background is cool, but too short, the angle from which the ships are shown does not show the complexity of many models (Gallente or ORE ships are much better)

there is no keyboard navigation (at least integrate the directional keys)

dragging the whole thing only works when dragging empty space, but not when dragging a panel

i like holograms

google maps tought me to scroll towards the screen to zoom in, the ISIS works the other way around, why is that ?

wouldn't some kind of integration of the compare tool make sense ?

opening the map hides the Station Services, opening the ISIS does not

undocking while the ISIS is open does something different than opening the ISIS while in space

some kind of "you are really really close to having mastery X for ship Y and should consider training it" may, or may not be useful (showing low hanging fruit)

i don't like the way industrial ships are presented vs the way combat ships are presented (in the racial shiplines). currently you are using a <-ish structure, a V-ish structure may be more appropriate

maybe i should at it to certificates but just found it via isis.

t3 ships may also use warfare links starting with lvl 3. Because u dont need it if u go in it as a fighter.

a little detail i don't like is how it centers the tree on the screen when you open it. The rookie ship is in the screen center and 90% of the tree is off screen. I think it would make a better first impression if you would put the rookie ship on the bottom left of the screen (not completely at the bottom but you know what i mean). This would be the initial position, the next time you open the tree it would remember the position and zoom level. (UI persistence)

testcase:
you look at the BC group and switch race

expected:
tree updates and you see the BC group of selected race, zoom and tree position does not change

current:
tree position and zoom level resets, you see a rookie ship and have to find the BC group again

Have you sent a bug report? Devs need to know your os.

After looking back through the other replies I found that the tree doesn't work when in CQ view. I switched to hanger view and could see it. I'm assuming this is a bug that will be corrected.

I'll echo two things that others have said; it would be very nice if the view was zoomed out enough when initially opened so that you could see the entire tree. I also really like the idea of applying the radial menu here. It would be a perfect fit usability-wise. Lastly, other UI elements get in the way and make certain buttons inaccessible (in my case the faction icons due to where I have my local channel window placed).

I truly hate to sound like one of those curmudgeons but, from my standpoint, this new view seems more about form than function. It's more cumbersome to use when I just need to quickly check what level I have various ships trained to. Looking at a simple list under the Spaceship Command category is a lot faster. I'll concede that having the ship progression presented visually in this fashion will likely make things more clear for newer players but, for me, it's a step backwards.

Overall, I suppose the benefits to newer players outweigh the minor inconveniences for veterans. I hope you'll consider the zoom issue and radial menu adoption suggestions. Those changes would add greatly to this feature's usability.

Have this feature been removed from the last build? 629686
I have looked around, but couldn't find it.

i am wondering if you guys plan to do do something similar for weapon systems.