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When will we get a bracket system using the icons in ISIS?

Using those brackets with customization of colors could be interesting, especially if we could have an optional tactical overlay that removes the models but leave the brackets.

Would be neat to have it still scrollable withe the mousewheel (when hovered over the brackets in the list) without showing a scrollbar or anything. Maybe something like numbers on top and below to display how many brackets are hidden to the top/bottom. When you scroll, don't make it fluid more like.. display/hide one more bracket for each "scroll tick".

Can you just make this a user modifiable variable with a range between 1 and 65536 instead of setting it to a static arbitrary number like 15?

If 15 is going to be the limitation there HAS to be scrolling.

There are many occasions where there's more than 15 entries to look at. Otherwise I love the new look, WAY easier to read in both format and from the background.

Unlike bittervets, I really found the scrolling to be an immense quality of life improvement and the black background made reading the labels against the sun or nebulae much easier. I really hope you restore the scrolling, and although it's hard to judge from the screenshots the text shadow seems to be an improvement over nothing but I don't think it's pronounced enough to read against the sun.

EDIT: About scrolling, how about putting the scroll bar on the left now that there's no box? I know it's not standard placement but it makes sense as the list is left anchored and has no frame.

Here's some free advice CCP, because god only know when the CSM logged in the last time and actually pvp'ed, and you'll never get any viable suggestions from them.

1) Add a setting, so that the list will display "a7-2" instead of "asteroid belt 7 - moon 2", this will cut down on clutter. Give us the ability to customize the information that pops up.

2) Once you allow for these shorthand names, you can make the notification be a 2-column one – 15 in each column, so 30 objects in one window.

3) Don't even try to balance this UI interface over anomaly rats. It's impossible. Nothing will replace the overview for that, focus on a new way to provide adequate bracket information for static objects - belts, moons, planets, etc.

4) I can already see which way the wind is blowing: step 1 - provide information via popups, step 2 - remove the overview. It's not going to work, will never work, just give up.

5) Focus on fixing the last UI changes you did. Why is that when I jump into a system, scan the anomalies, sort by distance, warp to one of them, and then have to guess which one I should warp to next, because the distance still hasn't updated to my new location? Why?

It's less annoying now, but still somewhat intrusive and covering the middle of the screen with information I already have in the overview - where I actually want it.

I don't really have any good suggestions for how to make this better except stop trying to replicate the overview as a floating popup in the middle of the screen.

At this point I'd advocate the removal of all the Roman numerals on celestials. While they do provide some some distinction between the moon and the planet they cause quick readability issues.

Sure, most of us understand how to read them, but we'd rather not. There's a lot of room for confusion between the 3 planets of VI, VII, and VIII. That being said, if you want to go forward with a compressed version that just uses abbreviation such as P5 - A4 then I think some extra effort should be made to:

A) Make it toggleable to "Planet 5 - Asteroid Belt 4", probably an option under Msc on the overview settings
B) Provide some sort of indication to new players what these abbreviations mean. Perhaps default to having abbreviations turned off but allow for older players to use them since they now P is planet, M is moon, A is asteroid belt, and S is station.

Pretty niche use case, but the list used to stay open when you hit the D-Scan button. Can you reintroduce this behavior?

Was pretty useful for warping by clusters and scanning them. Faster warping ships now make it tough to eye-ball some "drive-by scans".

Otherwise I prefer the current iteration on Sisi over what there's on TQ right now.

I want a crazy long list that covers my screen from top to bottom. I generally only have it up for a few seconds to find the object I'm looking for so I don't care if it covers everything at the time.