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I'd like to add my voice to the torrent of dissatisfaction at the implementation choices behind these tooltips.

I am entirely in favour of features that will make EVE more accessible and a more pleasant experience. In many circumstances, the cryptic nature of EVE's interface does need further explanation. The introduction of contextual tooltips in the Inferno NPE was certainly a step in the right direction.

However, with the best will in the world, I feel the recent implementation was far too 'one size fits all' and tried to solve every problem with one solution. My personal use case has been negatively impacted by the changes and I entirely empathise with those who are frustrated.

Whilst many of the tooltips are informative, the in-space element has added more boxes and scroll bars where I'd hope there would be a more elegant solution. The last thing I want is more text and windows in my way when all I'm trying to do is interact with and explore the game environment (besides, if I wanted an EVE text adventure, I'd play this again.)

I don't doubt that with further iteration, this system may be streamlined into something approaching an improvement on the previous system, but it did seem like an odd decision to roll it out as is. I was quite happy with the interaction with in-space brackets and often fly without the overview (yeah, I know, I'm 'doing it wrong'). Questions have quite rightly been asked.

That said, I appreciate the effort and am a little disappointed that we're once again at a player-developer impasse. The tunnel vision and lack of respect evident from some quarters always seems to bring us to this point. I wrote more about this in a blogpost, Tips for Tools.

Best of luck to the devs in giving the players what they want.

A great tool tip would be in the mission window we need one on the Faction icon that gives us the type of damage dealt.

When doing pi and selecting a processing plant to decide on which product to make, I can't see the list because its blocked by the tool tip giant black box. Its really a pain.

Okay, can we roll back the rest of the changes too? I'm 50% happier with the tooltips being removed from space, but the rest of the changes are still intrusive and making playing this game a real pain.

STILL don't like the new tool tips - PLEASE PLEASE make a slider or an off button

I'll add my 0.2 ISK...

PLEASE give us a delay slider. That's ALL you need to do to make this work for everyone. Noobs NEED this, most vets really REALLY don't... Gods know I don't. Please just allow us to change the delay from say, '0' seconds oh say, '20' seconds... this wouldallows us all to interact with the Tooltips as we each feel the need, not be forced to accept a change that really can be very negative in certain gameplay.

Plus, do we really need tooltips that actually just echo info already on screen? I mean seriously....

And... Grr Goons... cause, you know...

I found another problem.

In the cargo scan result window, tool-tips pop up, blocking my view of the contents of my scan. This happens when I mouse over the window and attempt to scroll the mouse wheel to see everything in the scan result. The tool-tips are usually a large paragraph in a black box with the item description. I don't really need to see that on the fly, so much as I really just need to see what's in the window with a second or two of scrolling. I only need to see what items are in there. I can worry about the details later, but those tool-tips are giving me anxiety.

Thank you for the eloquence and respectful delivery of your observations. I like CCP. I started playing the game not because I love science fiction (which I do), but because I heard they respect their community in a way few other game companies do. And I know they like us, or they would not attempt to improve the game. I hope they don't see the litany of responses to this thread and rationalize it as a kind of 'vocal minority.'

There are always going to be anti-social creeps playing videogames, so I think it's a shame rude behavior managed to elicit stronger responses from developers than carefully worded posts such as your own.

I am new to the game, and even I find the tool-tips more distracting than helpful. I have contributed my findings to this thread as well, in the hopes CCP is still listening to us. I don't know if they are, but they say they are, so I continue to try to help in the hopes of them helping us back. Strangely, there is an 'us and them.'

I've never seen that EVE text adventure game. Thanks for that, too.

Why are there no tool tips on scan results any more?

Is it really so difficult to leave something intact that is working as intended?

The light's there.

You just can't click to activate it because the giant box of death is still in the way.