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"We understand that things are a bit **** at the moment. What we are going to do is try and polish this turd until it is mildly acceptable.

Hopefully you will all be quiet after that. Just because something is less functional than before, does not mean that we can't introduce it. Until you realise this we will continue to push out faulty patches without any customisation options.

Jesus, what is wrong with you people."

PS. "Now you get 10 patches a year to endure this.....HAHAHA."

Seriously - just code ON/OFF switches for new UI features - we aren't asking too much.

This is the correct nomenclature.
The whole “tool tip” thing is just an expression of wishful thinking.

It is not hyperbole to say that I basically cannot play the game anymore.

Not for lack of desire, either.

It occurred me earlier while trying to work my way around the involuntary spamtips in space. There is a great way for CCP to keep them, modify them, love them hug them hold them close, or whatever they want to do with them. My way would keep them away from us that don't need them, but make them instantly available to a newbro pilot that needs to know something.

Ready?

Here it comes.

The simple solution is;

PUT THEM IN THE SHOW INFO PANEL OF THE RADIAL MENU. Make them a 'drag out' selection of that panel much like the way dragging the pointer out of 'keep at range', 'orbit', etc changes the value as you move the mouse pointer away from center.

It's a perfect fix. You can do it for every single tooltip in the game. You wont have to tweak timings, transparency, the hang time before it disappears, nothing. Just move the trigger to the radial menu and problem solved. The radial menu ALREADY has the features we want for the tooltips. Variable delay, it's usage is voluntary in design, and it can be moved to another mouse button. (Personally, I set it on the center wheel button and turn the delay down to minimal. If I want the radial, it's instant.)

That's it. Give this post likes if you like this idea and we can ram it down CCP's throat together. They can do this. Any chimpanzee can code this in an hour.

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I want a tooltip that tells me that the tooltip I'm hovering over is, in fact, a tooltip.

Please don't forget to incorporate that into your future release.

I absolutly HATE the tooltips!!!!!!! Cut this crap out it ruins the game for me and a lot of others from what I hear and read! You should delete tooltips and never ever consider doing it again.

I've read the 31 pages of this thread so far, because I have a vested interest in these changes because they affect my own game play (negatively) but also because I strongly think they will harm new players. Here's something notable about the 31 pages of comments so far: as far as I can tell, virtually no one has said the tool tips have improved their game play. Of the few that have said the tool tips should stay in game, not one, as far as I've read, has given concrete examples of which tool tips or which change besides the predictive mouse movements have benefited them.

Rarely are a wide variety of eve players in agreement about changes in the game, but when it comes to tool tips it looks as if virtually everyone, even newer players posting here, hate them.

Also, 31 pages in and no CCP Rise? He gave the NPE presentation at fanfest, so where is he in this thread? Maybe he can explain what the hell went so wrong.

Please, CCP, for the love of all that is holy, please do not listen to the users on what the UI should look like. I bring you the first rule of usability:

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/first-rule-of-usability-dont-listen-to-users/

Putting my UX hat on, the tooltips will be good for the NPE because despite the fact that existing players know what a station is, new players won't and having that show up is good for new players. You can expand this to all sorts of things.

Existing players, please don't presume that putting tooltips on things is trying to insult you. You're all super hardcore and the tooltips aren't saying otherwise. The blocking of things in space and the loss of overview information is something that needs to be address, but calling for everything to be removed or rolled back isn't going to happen and shouldn't happen (again UX hat on).

So please, CCP, iterate away. Deal with the issues at hand and continue to improve the client. It's certainly going to mean that when I try and get people to play, I'm not going to have to answer a never-ending sequence of questions that the UI really should already tell them.

And finally, for all the players complaining about the overview telling you it's a station, if the name of something in the overview is something like Xxx Trade Hub and the Type is Xxx Hub, and the symbol is a square, how is a new player supposed to automatically know that that item is a station? For those claiming that CCP didn't think about the play experience, it's just about as bad to presume that every player knows what every symbol is.

Of course they will - they learn that within a hour of entering the game.

Because he learns that in his first hour of play.

They've already mentioned they want to get rid of the tutorials -- the thing that teaches them in the first hour. So a precursor to that is tooltips that tell you what the tutorial no longer will.