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It's there to give you a good indication of the start and end of the damage track. When it was a full circle in the previous incarnations, it lacked any intuitive sense of where the beginning was.

Person who took the screenshot here,

UI scaling was at 90%.

Here, it's at 100%: http://i.imgur.com/38sfr.jpg. You can make it bigger if you really want by increasing your UI scale to 110% and 125%

So after flying and fighting a bit on the test servers I have to say that while I applaud your efforts, I would offer constructive criticism regarding the new hud. My impression is that it actually changes many things that did not and should not have been altered. Here is what I would keep from the changes that you made and here is what I would maintain from the current system. I opinion is that many of its features of the old hud are better and did not need to be adjusted.

The changes that are good:
-I like the new 'Target Tracking Camera'. Great idea.

The changes that aren't needed:
- the circular targets and circular health bars are not somewhat awkward looking and don't look as crisp as the square targets
- the 'activated modules' were better on the side than the bottom as on the botton they sometimes obscure the range.

The changes that are good, but need tweaking
- the damage notifications are good, but the font is too 'WoW like'. I would keep the message font the same as the current font, but still incorpate the changes made.
- the new brackets/reticles should remain square (square looks better). The top 5 damage dealers should be denoted by a simple colored dot at the corner of the square reticle. The colors should be red (top damage dealter), orange (next 2 damage dealers), and yellow (4th and 5th damage dealer).

We appreciate the work and I hope you consider the suggestions above.

I'm not sure why people keep suggesting something that only shows a difference in color. There are 10 threads about the UI/HUD where it's mentioned that it has to be visible to color blind people as well.

Love it, really really nice work.

I keep bringing up this topic: It would be VERY helpfull in smaller engagements if one could see the shiptypes that are in space, i.e. a tag to their bracket like the mouse-over info works but just for shiptype.

(CCP Mausheen replied that text rendering is very expensive on performance, and obviously if many ships are on grid the tags would cause other problems, too.)

So, a solution could be to add shiptype tags just to the damage dealers brackets, or to ships that do lock the player or are locked by the player ?

This should be easy for performance, and my hope would also be that if it is easy enough to code, you would consider adding this change or keep it on the list for future consideration.


Thanks

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Please if you find time to reply if this is feasible at all would be much appreciated, so i can stop posting about it if its a total no-go.

Very much like the idea behind the changes. Showing top damage dealers; having cycle time of module shown at the targetted module icon etc.

I just feel that this new layouting takes up way too much space for what it does. As a player you get more information fed to you; and this information is taking up more space on screen as well. Maybe to a point of information overload.

Damagedealing information:
- animation curve should be more linear, or actually push the previous item up. Current setup shows the first few miliseconds all text overlapped. If it's unreadable, dont feed me this information. It's distracting.

- new colourscheming doesn't add to the information given. It used to be "yellow = good, orange is bad" Now all of it is white which goes either way. Once I spotted the red or blueish damage numbers, its hard to read the whole of that sentence; as the rest of the white lines are interfering. (and the animation doesn't help with that)

Currently targetted:
- the 240 degree (or so) shield/armor/hull indicator are trying to imitate your own circular hud indicators; but your own version only uses 180 degrees. So you need another translating step to gauge your opponent stats versus your own.

- Activated modules are now shown under the current target. They seem to be spaced out a little more - taking more space on screen. Might be due to the fact that your targets are now shown as circles instead of squares. Squares can be ordered neatly and tightly. Circles are horrible to space out between each other. Maybe you could hit two birds with one stone by reducing the curvature to 180deg. on the S/A/H and use the bottom 180degrees to space out any activated modules.

- the new timer on a module such as a target painter doesn't seem to share it's duration with the original module timer. Is one using client-time while the other uses server-time or something? They seem out of sync.

Incoming damage from NPC indicator:
♥ it, although a few of these on your screen and things become occluded.
- Tone down the effect a bit? Maybe instead of a circle-fill, increase the border of the target-indicator by half a pixel per step or so?

- Radius on targetted circles/selection might be turned down a little to -once again- to save space

I am looking forward to this.

Something like that PLEASE. The layers are AWFUL and ugly and not at all easy to view at a glance, and are no more "intuitive" to new players than before. Please please please go back to the way they were before, layers are awful.

When I try to change tracking position it affects my ship's position on the screen. Can't place the ship in the centre and tracking point slightly higher. It's either impossible or inconvenient. Not good, please fix it.

Scaling set to 125% (1920x1080).

p.s. The whole idea is awesome but current implementation is raw.

I'm loving the look of the improved target tracking camera. How feasible would it be to expand on it to keep multiple targets in view simultaneously?

For example, having options to keep on screen all targeted ships, and/or squad/wing/fleet members? It would be a great function to automatically optimise viewing the relevant elements of the engagement, allowing the pilot to concentrate on actually doing the flying rather than camera spinning.