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Just a few bits on the compass overlay popup:

1. With some people playing at lower resolutions\smaller windowed modes, I think the overlay is too tall/covers up too much space in the capacitor area. The text area for warping/aligning/approacing/etc is also being (partially) obstructed by the popup, and IMO is one of the most important texts that should be always readable (what your ship is doing at the moment.) Maybe make the popup shorter and wider, into 3 columns wide, or into a two rows strip.

2. I feel that the mouseover area of the compass is a bit on the thin side sometimes. I would strongly suggest incorporating
the whole 'popup' into a full fledged button, maybe a side button to the Tactical View mode or another sub command in the Capacitor options menu.

I been on the test server and just wanted to share some thougths. Why change the anomoly colours? Having them green worked nicly. now its more painful to distinkt anom from sig. I would also love if you tweaked how bookmarks behave when you have a cluster With many types of sigs/anoms/planets ships etc and you hoover over them. I'd like to jump in, align to a cluster of stuff, and as easily as possible find that bm/item and Warp to it. Not just see that there are a bookmark in that direction. :) But all in all, it looks great :)

I've seen the current iteration of Sisi and it looks like you guys went for the 2 column overlay popup, and the mouseover area seems thicker now :)

One last suggestion for it: make it up towards the capacitor area, not towards the center of the screen. This should address the concern that the text over the capacitor (warping, aligning, approaching, orbiting text area) is not obstructed. Or is the design leaning more on not obstructing the healthbars/overheat/capacitor?

edit: hmm considering it now, covering the other mouseover areas is a bad idea =P

New SiSi patch....still takes forever before you can interact with the bookmarks...and that stupid static noise for the bookmarks is still there...seriously, whats the reasoning behind it? It can't be so we can differentiate different bookmarks audibly...because that would be the dumbest thing i've ever heard.

Thanks for fixing the bracket list to include celestials again...(again...how did that make it out of internal testing?)

I like the use of elements from the Vegas 2013 UI note (couldn't watch the 2014 one - did they make a new mockup wiith those elements?). The left side looky pretty nifty. The neocom bar is ... I dunno. It just doesn't fit the "borderless" style of the other things on the left, being broken up by the compass that does fit even less doesn't help either I recon. The right is making me possitively sick though. Are these supposed to be multiple instances of opened "overview" ? That would be ok and actually quite handy.

The icons above the drones - kind of useless IMO. The Sh/Ar/St is nicely done. I thought it would be cool if it used the same as locked targets and the own ship but I recon you'd need some insane screensize to actually see something then.

Local chat dissociated from local list... eh well i guess noone really uses local chat besides Amarr and Jita so that wouldn't be to much of a problem. However a different behaviour for that than for other chat channels is quite odd and adds unnecessary exceptions I think.

Would go better with Noriko Mais Compass Mockup as well - clear visible lines, no shading and smooth fades and all that unnecessary stuff. I can go outside for smooth roundings and nice shadings...

I think the indication of elevation is much clearer now. Moving anoms back to green helps readability also. I can't wait to have this on Tranquility. I may actually begin to mouse over signatures to see their size now and determine if I want to scan them or not. Currently on Tranquility it is so annoying to pan the camera all over the place searching for the icons that I just don't bother to do it. I just stay in the map view and scan down all the sigs. Having this compass takes away all the frustration.

Though... Currently on Singularity when you mouse over the signature-icons in space you can no longer deduce the size of the site. It shows only a single AU distance now. Rather than a range of two distances as on Tranquility. Bug or intentional? I hope its a bug.

Its nice to have bookmark icons pop up in space immediately now. I wish the signature icons would pop up immediately as well. But I guess they are delayed to prevent people from d-scanning other people out of their sites quite so fast?



Yeah, tabs within tabs for the overview. Allows you to arrange objects of different types with more fine-grained control. And I want to be able to slide the "selected object" bars around and insert them wherever I want into the overview. I'll probably make a giant UI wish-list thread in F&I sometime. This thread isn't really the place to go into all that.

There should be a on/off toggle for the entire compass display.

Funny enough the galactic north is not a point on the galactic plain. Much like the directions in the 40k universe (The Segmentum Ultima being in the galactic east, the Segmentum Obscurus in the north), the galactic north in EVE lies at an infinite distances outside of the actuall boundaries of New Eden so as to ascertain that north is allways north.

If you hit F11 and take a look at the thing at the bottom that's the stellar system you are currently in. The qhite cone is your viewing direction. Adjust cone to point upwards, open the strategic overlay. The numbers on the strategic overview pointing into space along your viewing axis (which is congruent with the "up" on the system view in F11) is pointing to what the OP jokingly calls "galactic north". If that was to dry I recommend zaqq's video doing "The Maze" explaining the whole thing while actually showing it.

I dont like the whole feature, ive never used the sensory overlay and have no desire to see every little thing in space. As for the compase, its very annoying seeing all the icons move around whenever im warping, especially seeing, far as ive been able to tell, its just a visual and cant be used to start a warp to the locations it shows. All of this i would care about at all if you could just turn it off. I know you can turn the sesory overlay off, and you can filter away all the little lines on the compase, so why cant I just turn off the compase that i have no need or want to use. Its a small thing to complain about but my idea of eve as a sandbox is being able to play how I want to including how my Ui looks, and this feature is lacking a simple on/off switch.

I guess I misunderstood the part about the bookmark filtering in the People & Places.

I thought it was to only show the bookmarks that are in the current system that I am in. Some of my folders have over 100 bookmarks in them, so when that folder is open, it's a pain to have to close that folder to open up another folder, or scroll down to get to another folder.

If I had the option to filter only the bookmarks that are for that system that I currently am at, then I could have several folders open at once, and only see those bookmarks in the folders.

Having hundreds of bookmarks from other systems shown in the folders doesn't help me out at all.