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Mother of God...

Yep, I did that in this window.

Nothing happened.

I can't get the example shown in the blog, where it tells you what facilities a station has :(

It should really work with you just mouse overing it on the overview.. :/

The tooltip for Autopilot is misleading. It should say something along the lines of:
"Activate the Autopilot to lose your ship and all of your cargo"

Please take note, when I say that the new tooltips make the game unplayable, that is precisely what I am talking about.

At this point I think we have proof positive that the UI team does not actually play the game.

Like I said before, in the GD thread, I am pretty much done until this is removed.

Tooltips for Mass and Inertia are confusing:





Affects … negatively/positively as … increases/decreases. That's bizarre wording which will confuse people rather than help them. Even worse than the obscure wording is that you are saying exactly the same thing two different ways: "affects A negatively as B increases" and "affects A positively as B decreases". The sentences both mean that there is a negative correlation between A and B (i.e.: A ∝ -B). The confusing will arise from the need to hold "affects acceleration and turning speed" in memory while attempting to parse "positively as value decreases". This is because we don't know what the 'affect' is until the second half of the sentence is parsed.

Rephrasing the tooltips in terms of "something I do has some effect" will simplify the wording:





The reverse phrasing (to have some effect, I should do something) also works: "To increase acceleration and turning speed, reduce mass."

The original wording would be ideal for a patent application, but is not suitable for an instruction manual, and will be downright dangerous in the UI of a combat vessel.

Redundant tooltips are repeating information that is already presented and are redundant, and bulky tooltips obscure interaction space

As a simple guide, if the tooltip doesn't show me information that isn't already available, I don't want to see it. "Stargate" is redundant. "Stargate / next stargate in route" is moderately useful, until I get the idea that the yellow stargate or station is my next thing to warp to. The multi-line tooltips for many objects "stacked" in a group on the view area are very useful, except when I'm trying to target things that don't get put in that tooltip (such as spew containers which break the UI norms by being untargetable and causing the ship to alter behaviour when you click on the icon).

We've lost corp/alliance ticker information that used to live in the old tooltips (or "hints" as CCP called them). This used to be configurable, so you could have the object's name, alliance, corp, type and distance on the hint.

The presence of shortcut keys for buttons that have them assigned is valuable. Thank you!

I'm on OS X. There are no tooltips for window decorations. We have little red, yellow and green buttons which variously close the window, minimise the window to the dock, or "zoom to fit contents" (which does different things depending on the application's interpretation of "zoom", "fit" and "contents").

Tooltips?

We don't need not steenkin' tooltips!

The OS dumps us at the desktop, gives us a mouse pointer, and tells us, "there's your work environment, go do stuff."

OS X has an insubstantive NPE.

Yeah, I had to sit there for a while before I realized it, almost like it wasn't trying to cram itself down my gullet like a facehugger.

There is a level of logic in having tooltips for basic functions in an operating system. As a successful operating system needs to assume that a user of said operating system has never used a computer before.

The entirety of the EVE UI was originally designed in such a way that assumed anyone playing EVE had used a computer before playing EVE. A safe assumption, as it would be rather difficult to play EVE before ever using a computer. But the developers responsible for the new tooltips felt it would be necessary ensure 5th dimensional beings capable of engaging in every sort of possible paradoxical behavior (to our deficient brains) would have no trouble playing EVE before they used a computer. A decision which I have no grounds to question. Said beings are apparently a large enough demographic to warrant such functionality, as evidenced by the necessity of this patch.

It shows up for me after a few seconds.
I'm quite sure that I could also find a way to turn them off, although that's probably a registry setting or something.