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Ive noticed another thing, the delay tooltips setting not only delays things like 'this is your cargo, its where your cargo goes' but also delays the tooltips on the fitting window.

Now this makes no sense, the information on the fitting window changes all the time, and is useful to know, but the hotkey for cargo doesnt. Why did you make it a blanket delay and not take into account the reason people want some information to pop up and not others?

Can you at least add in some kind of basic customization?

This.

Seems a double post happened, so i deleted the contents.

unfortunately, probably never, this is how CCP listen to "player feedback"......


see the sensor overlay or the jump animation, they don't even care.

we are again struggling with some dev's pet project here so it'll stay even if this means lost sub cause it's bad.....

Here are a few more problems I've had with the tool tips / new brackets system, including some which help answer Karkur's question about what the problems with the bracket system is:

1) When I have the tracking camera on and I click a single object off in space--like a FW plex--my tracking camera shifts to that. Then, as I often want to do, I try to click that object (e.g. the complex). In the old system I would get a little non-invasive pop up that I could quickly hit warp to, but in the new system, whenever I click on that object it instead selects my ship. Here is an example: http://imgur.com/edit What I need to do instead is move my camera so that my ship is not in front of the object, then click the object, then click warp. When trying to follow someone quickly, this is very annoying and slows down my response time by a few seconds.

2) Another problem is that, on the old system, when you clicked on a celestial in a big cluster of celestial, the old list that pops up would stay up--I could move my mouse where ever and I would still have the list up. This was perfectly fine and very helpful since the list was not a cluster-f involving a giant box that I had to scroll down and read etc. Now, however, the box that does pop up, even when I have a celestial selected, goes away whenever I move my mouse away from it--even if I still have the object selected. Now, to be honest, I really don't want a giant box staying up whenever I have a celestial from a cluster selected! But that only goes to show that the new way of displaying brackets is A) far less functional than the old system, and B) a massive pile of steaming cauliflower given that IF it did the same thing as the old system, it would be even worse than the (less function) version is now!!

So, yeah, except for the helpful tool tips which display statistics / numbers this change has negatively affected my game play more than any other change since I started 2.5 years ago.

To summarize the previous 971 posts, The issues with the new tooltip system have to do with the following:

• Obscures information that was previously instantly available and apparent in a fashion that is obtuse and cumbersome.
• Provides redundant information in such a way that obscures non-redundant information and necessary functions
• Vastly increases screen clutter
• Generates input lag through frame drops as a result of poorly coded fade effects
• Remains on screen long after information has already been absorbed.

To say, the clumped bracket scroll list "tooptip" window is simply a less useful/meaningful version of the overview window, that can't be quickly closed, moved, or controlled in any meaningful fashion that blocks a huge amount of screen space for no real purpose.

So this is an admission that frame drops have been noticed, but aren't considered an issue unless they're catastrophic. This. Is. Bad. Any framedrop experienced upon top of the line hardware running only a single instance of the EVE client will be exponentially more noticeable as hardware specs decrease and number of concurrent clients increase. Not to mention the compounding effect any level of anti-aliasing will have in dealing with poorly optimized transparency and fade effects. If a new design element results in any frame drop what so ever on high performance testing hardware, it needs to be retooled until such issues are completely gone, otherwise the effect it will have upon the average hardware will significantly sour the user's experience.

Also, I know this has been said thousands of times, but it bears repeating. Sometimes the only constructive criticism possible is the suggestion that one start over from scratch.

Just to be redundant, as that seems to be the hip thing with all the kids these days, the reason the new tooltip system is such a failure is because it replaced a barebones but functional and responsive system with a barely functional and unresponsive system, mostly for the sake of adding fade and transition effects to something that not only does not need them, but should never have them in the first place.

I got an issue like that. Mouse delay issue with graphics flickering.
I have to switch windowed to full then windowed every time I log in. Its a motherboard issue becouse it leaves no trace that CCP can track. hope is does not become chronic for you.

Yep. that pretty much sums it up for me. Seeing the old interface makes me even more upset, as it was so elegant and easy to use at the same time.

I don't think you realize how game breaking this is for some people. You have repeatedly asked for feedback. Everyone says they want an off button, and these images illustrate why.

bump...

WTB switch on/off button!!

actually I already paid my monthly subscription - so I WANT switch on/off button

Please do not put words in my mouth. That is absolutely not what I meant.

In other news, we are still looking into things.