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New Tooltip system is garbage. Either give us a way to customise which ones show up or roll back the changes until they aren't so ****.

I don't need a tooltip telling me something is a stargate on my overview. The Icon has been the same for EIGHT FREAKING YEARS I KNOW IT IS A STARGATE.

I think that thread is still going, isn't it?

On 24" monitors, it's not too bad really, but anything bigger, or the players that use a TV, and it gets old pretty fast.

Not a finger was lifted to smooth it out though, and I think that is what sits bad with payers. Oops, ment to say players. Actually both.

They need to write on a chalkboard: I will use my brain. Test server is a must. Proper player feedback is critical.

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Ordinarily I keep my mouth shut and adapt, but in this case I gotta say it: These tooltips are a horrible waste of my precious screen real-estate, offer me nothing in terms of gameplay value and I would dearly like to be able to turn them off.

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....and give old arrows on targeted red crosses back! These are not visible at all.

Hey, that's a sun you are pointing your mouse at

Jump animation is just cosmetic (well, epilepsy inducing, but who cares. EVE is about social darwinism after all).
Tooltips, on the other hand, are just plain harmful for the gameplay. Like blocking LoS, preventing you from targeting stuff in blobs, breaking exploration, removing useful information (hey, is that PoS gun online?). While offering no useful information. This is a mail client. You can read and write mails. This is market. You can buy and sell stuff. This is a sun. It's a sun. Which is a sun. Dude, SUN!

Tooltips must 1) not harm useability and 2) provide useful information which can not be represented by other, less UI-clogging means like already existing distinctive celestial and neocom icons. The tooltips in their current incarnation manage to achive neither.

PS: did I mention sun?

This, can't even tell what I have targeted anymore from the overview

Terrible, bad patch roll this mess back on to the desk of the morons responsible for it and give them a lesson in QA

OMFG, Tooltips, Star Map is borked when you can not select a station to warp to without change to show services... Solar System Map is totally destroyed with large description tips hiding any other useful information... utterly stupidness. Let us turn the s**t off! EDIT: Sorry it was possible to turn the tip off in solar system map..

So far I have not played long enough with the new tooltips for it to be a direct nuisance. I will support the idea of being given the ability to turn of the tooltips, since some of us do not need these anymore.

I think it is a great idea that CCP wants to help newer players more easily understand the HUD and ship stats. I really hope you guys are continuing the work on the tooltips as promised in the devblog, because as it currently stands, I don't feel like the feature adds much in terms of helping a new player understand EVE better.

The Neocom button tooltips feel a bit rushed. In my opinion, the tooltips could be used in a better way to explain some of the available features. For example, the tooltip for the mail writes "Send or receive mail". I think most players, even a complete newbie that have never played EVE will know, that the big button with the envelope is where you send a receive mails. Why isn't it mentioned the mail button is also used for mailing lists and notifications? Obviously not all the tooltips can be expanded on, but these should definitely be revisited.

The fittings tooltips are also a nice addition, but again these could profit from a revision. Some tweaks might seem minor (and in reality they are), but if you invest time in correcting a feature, I feel that it is a good time to make it great once and for all.

Some examples for tweaks on the fittings tooltips could be:

- A good example of an informative tooltip is the mass and inertia tooltips. These tell you what they affect and how they affect them, in a concise and simple way. Why is this fomatting not also used in the resistance tooltips? "Incoming EM damage against a hitpoint type is reduced if it has a value for this resistance" is formatted slightly less clear, compared to the mass and inertia tooltip. For example "Incoming EM damage against a hitpoint type is reduced as the value increases", gives a higher uniformity and is slightly easier to understand.

- When you hover over the shield number, you get a proper tooltip "Shield hitpoints and Shield recharge time". But when you hover over the armor or hull number it only says "armor" or "hull", instead of for example "armor hitpoints". This wouldn't be noticable, if it wasn't for the armor symbol having the same tooltip. So when you hover over the different stats you get the same tooltip in two different places, which just feels slightly weird and not streamlined.

Last, there are many important stats that did not receive a tooltip. You will notice this when you check specific items and their stats. "Signature resolution", "Accuracy falloff" and "Tracking speed" are all very important stats that influence your ship heavily. They are all some of the stats new players have most problems understanding, and as of now they all don't have a tooltip explaining what and how they are influencing a specific ship or equipment.

Now after all this constructive criticism, I will say great work on the "Predictive Mouse Movement".

Keep it up!

Oh I understood your off-topic post about jump animations just fine. I was just trying to explain that you completely and utterly missed Malcolm's point, which apparently you are too thick to understand even now.


Please stop trying to derail this thread. TIA.