Ships & Modules

There's been some great changes to EVE lately, and the changes to overheating modules were long overdue and warmly welcomed.

However, the current 'flashing' animation to show that you have clicked overheat isn't really much more helpful than not having it at all, whilst it shows you that you have clicked it, it doesn't show if you have clicked it to activate overheat, or deactivate overheat.

Now you may be thinking "well it's pretty obvious if you had it on before, then clicked it it means it's gonna switch off..."

Well yes, it is pretty simple perhaps, sitting outside a station idle activating and deactivating overheat it seems pretty neat.

But when you're mid-fight out numbered, taking structure damage, and your primary target is seconds from death, and you're micro-managing overheating 5 other modules whilst manual piloting, it's a gets a bit confusing and a bit tense to have your 90% heat damage afterburner sitting there just flashing at you like "hey, what u gon do now fool?"

I really think this could be improved very simply by having the overheat icon simply change colour, quite like activating and deactivating a module, have a colour for 'i am overheating next cycle' and a different colour for 'i am deactivating overheat next cycle'

Has anybody else found this to be frustrating? Would this idea be something anyone else would like to see changed?

thx xxx


edit:

Glad to see it's not just me that is finding this frustrating, lets not have this thread to go unnoticed, please share this thread with your spacefriends and spacecollegues and all post a reply!

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Supporting the support as well as the OP

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Confirmed,

This is a good idea.

Red for hot, green for not.

Good idea. Lack of this drives me nuts.

Red = Hot
Blue = Cold

(re: As per water taps & similar.)

Quick bump and also, changing the colours is just an example of how this could be improved really, anyone got any other ideas how it could be made clearer as to whether the module is about to activate overheat or deactivate overheat? Would love to hear them!

Green for on, red for going off?

Keep the colour conventions the same as with modules...

You can change the frequency of the blinking for overheat on and off. Can also have the light move, maybe shift to 10 o'clock position for deactivating while turning read, then center and off for off, 2 o'clock position for activating. Could also use red and green for turning off and turning on while blinking. That way you have several differences to account for how different people react to different stimuli. And it would most likely look 'awesome (TM)' as well as being functional.