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Dev Blog: All Hail The Info Panels!

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Eloise Pasteur
Vinegar Flies
#201 - 2013-03-04 22:10:43 UTC
I can't find this buried in the thread anywhere. Can we have better control of the display options in the collapsed form please?

For example, I don't generally care what constellation I'm in. System name, security level, region and kills in last hour would be more useful for me there. I'd be willing to expand the panel to see the constellation when it does matter.

Likewise, on the autopilot short form, next system, it's region, name of next waypoint system, jumps to next waypoint, jumps to end of route would be really useful for me.

As others have suggested the mission info panel showing mission status would be great too!

However, chatting to a friend, she would like completely different things to be displayed. Whether that's XML or something else, it would be good to have it controllable by us to really suit our needs and play styles.
Gospadin
Bastard Children of Poinen
#202 - 2013-03-06 14:57:23 UTC
MainDrain wrote:
Idea from Kyra Quinn posted in F&I

When I asked about this in the Rookie channel I was told to bring it up here.

If you have a mission active you can see the selected info on it top left with the name of the mission and when you click on it it you get the destination and all that. But if I want to check if the mission completed (different missions have different requirements) I have to go through the pulldown menu, open the mission info and look for the big green text stating "completed". From what I understood the journal will also flash but there's tons of icons flashing all the time and it's not always clear what that means.

To me that seems a bit silly and not very user friendly. Why not have the mission name change colour if it's completed (green for instance, like the green "completed" text in the mission info window). That way you can do a mission, instantly see it's completed because its name changed colour and warp off. To me that would be so much easier to use and makes more sense than the current system.

Any thoughts?

Surely this could be tied into the new info panels you have (unless it is already part of it) Especially good feature given that is come from a new player as well!


I like the above.

Perhaps for colorblind players, there could be some icon for completed vs accepted as well.

Maybe an indicator of which mission you're in (or which mission has a room closest to your current position), since sometimes you can have multiple missions active of the same name at the same time.

Another indicator would be which missions have their "next waypoint" in the current system vs nearby systems at a glance, for those of us who accept a number of missions at once.