Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Slow notifications....

So what is slow about them. Since I never delete notifications, just mark them as read, when I enabled new feature there was 550 or so. Clicking on the little icon to list them, proceeded to list them. The list was expanded from 1 to 550 with what seems to be 1 added per frame to the list. This appending got slower and slower eventually driving down my FPS from 60 (capped) to 13. Seems that your list.append() function is linear with number of items in the list, instead of constant time.

Secondly, after the list was finally loaded, I only see latest 4 or 5 or something. Then why is my FPS stuck at 30? Closing down the notification area bumps fps back up to 60.

Turning off my FPS cap to immediate (instead of interval one) gets results

- 85-95 fps around some POS
- linearly down to 13 as the list is loaded
- 41 once the list is loaded
- 85-95 once I close the list

Please fix. You don't add items to a list and sort them at same time. You concatenate *then* sort by key at the end - never try to keep the list sorted especially if its something like a vector. Then you only draw the first 4, not all of them. I'm not certain why there is such a performance hit otherwise. (I can't see your code)

Here are my thoughts on the notification system so far.

• Be able to limit the history (days,week,months?)
Example, i want only to have notification scroll-back at max 7days.


• Clear Notifications (Remove items from the list)
Example i have some notifications i want to have left but some i don't simple x when hovering and also maybe a gesture slide like you got on Android to remove them.


• Have a slight delay on tooltips when hovering over items.
(When scrolling and having mouse-over it just spams and mostly covers the area you actually want to see.)


• Able to re-size the window not only vertically but horizontally as well
(We have widescreen nowdays, why not use that if possible.)


• Notification icon should move when opening the neocom together with other elements IF
its stacked against another element that also moves. (would be great if possible)

Another thought I had. Instead of having the red number counter popup the side of the Notifications button and have it take up more space ( and you know we love our space) why not have it inside the Notification button. It could replace the icon until the count is at 0 again.

You can position it by holding Left mouse button down on it and dragging. You have to hold it down for a few seconds. I agree with the translucent idea too.

As this is apparently the same team that brought us the tooltip fiasco, I'll ask a question here because it is being ignored everywhere else.....


Don't you think that you should follow up on a promise made by yourselves months ago (below), before carrying on with some other pointless crap that will probably end up half-finished like a lot of the new "features" ?


"....we will look at improving the experience with tooltips in later releases. In that regard we are looking at configuring tooltip behavior by category, which we think would allow for you to tune how tooltips display based on the relevance of the information to you"

Please add the DOWNTIME notification. The most annoying popup spam in the game and you didn't add it. Seriously, this is the first thing I looked for in the settings.

looks good so far!

neat!

H-here i come :
1. Add ability to clear history.
2. Add production and invention notifications to the feed.
3. Add ability to set notification number/time limits.

Performance of displaying a lot of notifications is something we are looking at. Currently the performance hit is mostly because all of the UI elements are created every time you open the notification history. This should be less of an issue when you can clear the history but we aim to improve the overall performance with hundreds of notifications in the list.

Some feedback:

-Loving that the notifications popups don't happen when you are in camera mode (CTRL+F9) - I tested this with watchlist, and no popup. Great!

-The notifications for your watchlist don't include standings, as they used to. This is pretty important, as you'd want the popup to include more than just the online/offline status. When I see a -10 log in, it should grab my attention immediately, as there is a reason I have them watchlisted.

-I can see that when you get a new application to your corporation, the picture has a light blue + icon inside the picture frame in the bottom right. I assume this is to show the action of them applying to your corporation. When they are accepted, the picture has no in-frame icon in the notification. This is confusing, as it makes it look like it's a +5 standing, even if you are neutral to that character. You may want to consider changing this icon, and adding a different one for their joining your corporation.

Important - "Standings" and "Action" icons on the need to be clearly separated, and it shouldn't make the picture frame too crowded.