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Modifying UI when aligning to warp
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guigui lechat
the no fock given
#1 - 2017-04-02 04:54:53 UTC
Hello.

I propose three things :
- rename the "warping" when the ship is actually aligning to "aligning" so we have a visual indication when our ship has actually taken off.
- split the speed gague under the capacitor in two when aligning. The second gauge should be in the middle (half filled) when we start the warp from full stop, be full when aligned, be at 0 when time to align is superior than 2* full-stop time. Maybe this gauge should replace totally the one existing
- the speed gauge could show the time (in s) remaining before entering warp.
Cade Windstalker
#2 - 2017-04-03 02:05:40 UTC
The first point is semi-reasonable, though we do have a visual indicator of when you enter warp. Generally the gauge zeros and then fills rapidly, and on top of that there's the actual warp effects on your ship and in space.

The second and third are unnecessary and impractical. There are a ton of things that can change how long you take to get into warp, and the game doesn't actually know how long it's going to take you to align at any given time, it just knows what conditions you have to meet to enter warp.
guigui lechat
the no fock given
#3 - 2017-04-03 20:02:07 UTC
Cade Windstalker wrote:
the game doesn't actually know how long it's going to take you to align at any given time, it just knows what conditions you have to meet to enter warp.

Actually, the game knows : the simulator gives different align time according to the modules activated. So if you have a movement vector required in order to warp, and a given acceleration vector, you can compute the difference between the present movement vector and the requested movement vector, divided by your acceleration vector length, to get the number of seconds you need to warp.
I'm not sure the acceleration vector is constant though.

Of course if you get webbed this time changes, as well as wheter or not you have propmod enabled ; so this indication should also change.