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I would appreciate you from refraining from personal attacks over one typing error, it is not constructive nor does it add value to the thread. Cheers.

Id like to request a delay slider for the module tool tips

These tool tips come up very quickly and its annoying when ur rapidly turning on /off modules.

If there was a 3 second delay or a delay slider it would be much better.



I realise u can turn off the module tool tips. I like having the tool tip to check my optimum range etc I just dont want it displaying instantanously.

Please note Rommiee that that dev also very explicitly said that he wasn't allowing us to turn off any sounds,

Absolutely spot on.

They had three goals, admirable goals.
New player experience,
Better information, for both new players and veterans alike,
Be non-intrusive.

The problem is that they went forward with a "tooltip" design iteration to tackle all three goals. What do I mean by that? Well, if you really look at what we already currently have in space, is.. an icon, and when you mouseover it, it expands into text detailing exactly what it is and what it means. This is, by definition, a tooltip!

They didn't need to add tooltips on top of tooltips. :(

It was a missed opportunity for some very admirable goals, that could have used a different approach. Tooltip was the wrong way to go, Team Pirate Unicorns! A lot of wasted design hours could have been saved with a stronger team discussion before selecting "tooltips" as the answer for all three of the proposed goals. If the "old" tooltips were found to be lacking, the new tooltips sure aren't going to be much better, because they are still, technically tooltips. Albeit much less functioning tooltips that actually obstruct gameplay and litter the gamespace nonsensically. :)

TLDR: Off button for in space tooltips, they provide nothing new to what the old tooltips previously said, less functionality, and actually have the effect of disorienting the player in space.

Please don't waste further design hours into a feature that a) currently already exists b) functions much better the old way and c) the players don't want, see d)

d) Why do the players not want it? A) The old tooltips were faster, B) cleaner, C) functioned unobtrusively, and D) allowed you to maintain some degree of spatial orientation.

The current in space tooltips provide nothing of the sort and quite frankly, need to go. You notice any sort of circular feedback going on here? I sure do! Please let's just call this for what it is, a gamble that A) didn't pay off and B) is never going to be as clear and concise as the old tooltips, and C) will ultimately fail because of all of the above.

(Because I'm really tired of typing A B and C).
I admit, they gave us some humor, Station is Station, oh how cleverly disguised you were. You fooled me once, maybe even twice.. But now that humor is gone. There are other areas of the game that are sorely in need of attention. Did you know that mining drones don't even have a keyboard shortcut to.. you know, mine? Shocking, I know!

Hmm, maybe if I put that into a tooltip.....no, no, that wouldn't work.

He can't stop us.

The option to enable/disable audio already exists in the Esc menu.

It will, when people discover the 'cancel subscription' button.

yes but a separate one is better

The delay is for all tool tips which for those that set the delay high to disable some they don't like the delay for the module ones is then to long.

In space bracket ones are not effected by this slider once it pops up.

You summed it up nicely!

If they had wanted to meet their objectives for the in space 'tooltips' that everyone would have liked, all they needed to do was to add a couple of lines of code to the EXISTING ONES that changed their colour against a light background like a nebula or a star!

You would have then ended up with easy to read, easy to understand & easy to use in all light conditions, 'Tooltips'

All for a couple of lines of code. Win-Win

Instead you wasted tons of development time on a clunky, screen hogging, only displays part of the data that USE to be shown, a set of semi transparent black boxes with bits of text in that are totally out of tune in what is supposed to be a Head Up Display!

I suggest you look at some of your own promotional trailers, they have a better idea on what a HUD should look like!

Everyone is, but the important thing is that some dopey Dev has got his brownie points for enhancing the New Player Experience, regardless of how it has broken the game for the other 99.999% of the players.

We are pretty much stuck with it as it is now. CCP won’t do much more about it as they are no doubt busy breaking another part of the game that works perfectly well at the moment.