Ships & Modules

I'd like CCP to include tooltip formatting into the overview xml files

Wait six months - your opinion will fester.

Transparency and adjustable delay would be awesome. I have "short term memeroy loss" due to age and other things, so it is helpful to me, even being a 2 year player. One thing that would be nice is if the ranges for boosted mining lasers were alittle more accurate. Example: Info on strip miners says range is 15km, when acctually you need to be 14.99km to fire lasers. With my current boost it is 24.92km, but the tip says within 24km. see where I'm going here? Thanks.

This is the best option, but artificially limiting the delay to 3 seconds is silly.

You're joking right?

The UI options in EvE are VERY limited compared to most large MMOs. Especially for a game with so much complextity, the options menu and the choices available for any kind of real customization are very lacking.

Why is giving the users more control over the interface considered a bad thing? Is an elegant options menu really more important than actual gameplay?

It's definitely better to have a complex options menu that users only have to deal with once or twice, than being forced to use an annoying interface change always. Most users would appreciate more flexibility and choice in managing the interface to better fit their play-style. Are you really worried that you will get a lot of angry posts from people about how your options menu has too many confusing choices, and allows for too much customization?

You would also have less back-lash everytime you make a change. Just like the captain's quarters, you force UI changes down your users throats, without giving them any choice in the matter, the users get pissed off, and THEN you implement the option to allow the user to customize your change. Significant aspects and changes to the user interface need to come with options which allow for user configuration. Please stop dictating to your users what they want in their interface.

A customized tooltip delay is standard practice these days. Allow the user to enter a number ranging from 0 to 10 seconds (includiung .5 increments), and you will satisfy everyone, and all of your users will have a better experience. You won't even need to add an extra toggle to turn it off, since 10 seconds would be the same thing.

Forcing us to use a one-second delay isn't a solution - it's a compromise and it completely misses the mark. Most players who like the tooltips want to see them instantly. Others don't want to see them at all. Those who don't like them didn't have their concern addressed, and for those who like them you've broken them by making the delay too long. I'm not sure why the obvious solution of a customized delay isn't jumping out at you like it is for everyone else - and I'm even more confused why this wasn't considered and implemented in the early stages when you were first discussing this change. Was it really so hard to anticipate the variety of player needs and how your player base would respond to another forced change without customization options?

This idea that the elegance of the options window is more important than allowing the user to customize their UI is completely absurd. The user interface should be configured by the user, not CCP. If that means more options in the options window, then it's time to add a new tab and let your users decide for themselves which aspects to the interface are important to them, and how they want to customize them, instead of holding on to someone's pet idea that too many buttons in the options windo is somehow bad design.

More choices are good. The typical EvE player is NOT going to be confused and angry if you give them more ways to customize their interface. In fact, you will make everyone happy, since everyone will be able to tailor your changes to better suit their personal tastes.

CCPs current approach to interface design -- 1) push a significant change, 2) wait for a lot of negative feedback, 3) test various new ideas to address player concerns, 4) implement changes and customization options -- is not very efficient. Just give players some options to manage new UI changes, and you can skip 2 thru 4 altogether, save yourself some time and money, and avoid completely annoying half your player-base a few times a year...

Can you add the option to make the tooltips appear instantly rather than have a delay?

The delay in the tooltip appearing is much appreciated! I hardly have it come up now, since it takes a second or so to click a module and move on.

If you could make it more compact, that would be great. No graphics necessary, simply text will do.

A total disable option would be great too. When you've played the game long enough, you intuitively know what your opt+falloff is, and many of us use the tactical overlay for the visual cues.

If this is by design, please add an option to disable the tooltip on module activation and make it separate from the option to have tooltips at all.

My ideal setup would be tooltips on a 3+ second delay (user option) ONLY when my cursor hovers over the module and to have the tooltip disappear as soon as I move my cursor off the module. Being able to check the tooltip once in a while would be handy, but I have the mental capabilities to remember the module name and it's range limits without having to be reminded every 5-10 seconds.

What makes the tooltips more annoying is that because of how I've had my UI set up for the past 6+ years the tooltips cover vital information whenever they pop up (and sometimes don't disappear until I put the cursor over the module). Adapting to new game mechanics is one thing, but having to redesign my UI setup because of a nominally useful feature is just plain annoying.

The current design of the tooltips makes the UI more cumbersome, not less.

I completely understand and support making the UI more friendly to new players, but please don't treat all of us like new players.

Fail of Incarna should have tought you something, shouldn't it?

It has been told a number of times and I'm repeating it as well - we want more options, not less. There are no reasons whatsoever to believe a regular CCPer plays this game at a higher level than a regular player. The fact that you pesonally don't see a point in disabling such crappy items as Captain Quarters or these tootips does not nesessarily means no one sees.

I might need tooltips, but only if they come in a highly customazible way. I might want to see heat status, reloading cooldown etc, but why would I ever want to see a confirmation that the 10mn Microwarpdrive II I installed is indeed a 10mn Microwarpdrive II?

EDIT: also, having guns range displayed is ONLY really useful when you're being tracking disrupted or affected by WHs. Otherwise I don't want to see it all since I know this stuff before undocking. Hence, you may easily implement a new small improvement.

And yeah - you're welcome.