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Overview UI blinking SUCKS!

When running missions - the blinking rate of rats targeting and shooting you in overview is hideous.

Blinking rate of them in space is actually same as before and is very good, don't know why the change was needed.

New blinking rate in overview is distracting too.

Did you just reset the avoidance list?

I spent ages removing every freaking entrance to Gallente space, because they shoot me on sight...

EDIT: On second thought, could have been my reinstalling the client a few months back?

Either way, complaint about the overview lockup still stands.

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Overview column formatting is bugged.

I can no longer adjust the column width of Angular Velocity to show TWO decimal places.

Two narrow give "0.0..."
A little wider gives " 0.0..." - yes right aligned !?!?!?!?
A little wider still gives "0.000..." - ????

Ok I officially hate what you've done with the overview. The technical crew did a great job as always, but the other departments don't know what they are doing. A good UI is all about functionality, while being as modifiable as possbile, since people like different things and a bad UI is a gamebreaker. Don't make weird and unintuitive functions like overview freeze something you can't get rid off. There was a reason I didn't play with the crtl-key pushed down all the time. It's because while that functionality is very useful in some situations, it's bad in many others. As a bonus you've also managed to implement a set of features that aggrevate the issues the individual features create.

To display the same amount of information as before i have to expand the overview much more. I used to be able to see the names of all the gates/ships/targets in my old overview, but now all I see is "stargate (...)" or "serpentis (A...)". What good is that to me? I need the name(you know the thing that differentiates between targets and is the column title), not redundant common descriptions repeated over and over in every column, that serve no other purpose than to bloat the overview size. Which is extra bad, because of the overview freeze.

Of the overview freeze how I hate you so. Why does it exist as a mandatory feature? I just don't get it. Want to change columns or fiddle with the overview? Need to keep taking the cursor constantly out of the bloated overview or it wont change. Want to filter the targets according to your need? Can't ******* do it, since CCP knows better than you what you want, so it puts every new target in the wrong inconvenient place. I'm constantly having to move my cursor back and forth between the overview and empty space just for it to work like I NEED and WANTit to work. I'm sure some absolutely love it, but that doesn't mean anything for my gameplay. This is why a good UI has options, so people can alter it to fit their personal preference.

The blinking. I think you went out of your way to annoy people with this one. Why isn't it uniform accross all columns? The overview becomes a cacophony of out of synch blinking lights, that is extremely distracting and draws the eye away from the important information. When that important information is in text form, it makes it even worse, since reading while the page is filled with out of synch blinking lights isn't exactly the best environment for reading.

At this point I quit the game in disgust, so I didn't examine the finer points of the new system. I propably missed things good and bad or options to alleviate the issues, but there was too much bad for me to want to deal with at the moment. I'll get back at it when I can handle the likely aggrevation of going through all the setting again to see what can be salvaged. If you plan on these kinds of UI features to become mandatory with the default UI, I beg you, please allow UI modding. What you think is awesome UI functionality, is bordering on gamebreaking for me.

I'll acknowledge the elephant in the room here, since no-one else is:

Bin the Overview as it is completely, and re-invent from scratch.

It's an archaic, clunky, buggy, screen real-estate -hogging, resource-swilling, immersion-breaking, not-fun, unintuitive to modify (inasmuch that it can be modified at all, which is "not very much") piece of crap that was well past its sell-by date. Like, 2 years ago.

Give us real-time (or as close to real-time as feasible) predictive tracking of individual targets with velocity vectors, and the option of having probability-vectors (number, or choice if any) in a 3d spherical interface, tied to a "master list" that we can sort by range/type/etc....Like what the existing O/V does now, but onluy as a base for the aforesaid spherical O/V...

Fake-Edit: This idea isn't fleshed out fully, obviously, but is hardly unique to me.

Bin that archaic, space-wasting resource-hog already!

Holy crap there is a lot of baby whining in here, that other person was right, either play on the test server and post constuctive feedback,

Or post in this feedback thread with constructive feedback explaining why you don't like it, you claim you don't have enough time to log into SiSi and test the content patchs but you have enough time to sit in this thread and post whine after whine reply to other posters?

Why can't people just explain in a calm manner what they don't like about it, what they think could be done to fix it, instead of throwing there toys out of the cot and stomping there feet lol,

I forgot how funny a lot of the EVE community is, its good to be back

At least some people write constructive posts with feedback

EDIT:

On a side note, im going to give these changes a few days to sink in and get a feel for them, not decided fully if i like or dislike them yet, give combat a go tomorrow morning hopefully to see how it looks, tonight am doing boring market stuff

Thats better thanks, now hopefully CCP will see it an acknowledge it, they did seem to be listening to the players more, at least i hope so thats why i came back since there ears seemed to be more open now

Overview performance increase is great. +1

Overview useability is terrible, performance increases should never be put before useability. -2