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How to turn off Compass Display?

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Tavin Aikisen
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#1 - 2014-11-05 04:43:22 UTC
Sorry, don't like it. Don't want it. How do I turn it off, please? Ugh

"Remember this. Trust your eyes, you will kill each other. Trust your veins, you can all go home."

-Cold Wind
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#2 - 2014-11-05 04:55:47 UTC
Tavin Aikisen wrote:
Sorry, don't like it. Don't want it. How do I turn it off, please? Ugh


i don;t think you can

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Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#3 - 2014-11-05 05:03:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Seraph Essael
Well, that didn't last long did it...

You can't. Besides it's not like it's in the way or distracting.

Now what I would like is a shortcut for the damned D-Scan again...

Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person."
Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#4 - 2014-11-05 05:07:08 UTC
You can, there's a pop up window for it in which you can deselect the categories it displays manually, or all of it at once.
Just can't recall off the top of my head exactly how I got it to open up and at work, so cannot duplicate til I get home.

Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
Tavin Aikisen
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#5 - 2014-11-05 05:09:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Tavin Aikisen
Omar Alharazaad wrote:
You can, there's a pop up window for it in which you can deselect the categories it displays manually, or all of it at once.
Just can't recall off the top of my head exactly how I got it to open up and at work, so cannot duplicate til I get home.


I did try that, it works to an extent. You still have the rotating compass (without the colours) and doing this also removes them from the camera overlay itself. Which I suppose helps since all the new overlay does is overlay the previous overlay which is already quite apparent without extra colours on top. :/

Seraph Essael wrote:
Well, that didn't last long did it...

You can't. Besides it's not like it's in the way or distracting.


I can appreciate others may enjoy it or not find it distracting. For me personally, it's very intrusive. It rotates down the bottom and distracts. Not to mention a 2D compass in a 3D space... well I won't go there. ;)

I think it'd have been far more appropriate to allow further customisation for such a feature.

"Remember this. Trust your eyes, you will kill each other. Trust your veins, you can all go home."

-Cold Wind
Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#6 - 2014-11-05 05:09:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Seraph Essael
Omar Alharazaad wrote:
You can, there's a pop up window for it in which you can deselect the categories it displays manually, or all of it at once.
Just can't recall off the top of my head exactly how I got it to open up and at work, so cannot duplicate til I get home.

Even turning the pop up window "off", the compass "ring" is still around the edge of the capacitor, I'm assuming that's what he means...

Tavin Aikisen wrote:
it's very intrusive. It rotates down the bottom and distracts.
...
It's a tiny ring around the capacitor how the hell is that intrusive? It takes up around 1:50th of the screen space.

If it's distracting you, I bet you're the kind of person that get's distracted by shiny things like a magpie? (That's mean light heartedly before you go off on one).

Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person."
Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#7 - 2014-11-05 05:19:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Seraph Essael
Deleted secondary post.

Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person."
Cannibal Kane
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2014-11-05 05:24:36 UTC
Seraph Essael wrote:
Deleted secondary post.



When you are a single person engaging multiple players at once everything you are not use to seeing is a distraction. Awareness is a biatch in this case since it distracts me immediately making me think I need to focus on a another target.

Will get use to it though like every change that has occurred. Adapt or die.

"Kane is the End Boss of Highsec." -Psychotic Monk
Tavin Aikisen
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#9 - 2014-11-05 05:30:18 UTC
Seraph Essael wrote:

It's a tiny ring around the capacitor how the hell is that intrusive?


It's intrusive because I don't want it there and it interferes with the rest of my overview which is customised to my preferences, up until now.

Quote:
(That's mean light heartedly before you go off on one).


Your intent can be as lighthearted as you like, that doesn't change the effect.

"Remember this. Trust your eyes, you will kill each other. Trust your veins, you can all go home."

-Cold Wind
Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#10 - 2014-11-05 05:31:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Seraph Essael
Cannibal Kane wrote:

When you are a single person engaging multiple players at once everything you are not use to seeing is a distraction. Awareness is a biatch in this case since it distracts me immediately making me think I need to focus on a another target.

Will get use to it though like every change that has occurred. Adapt or die.

I guess I'm slightly biased, I've kinda gotten used to it somewhat already. 9-10 times I'm looking at my overview and modules damage rather than at the capacitor and the spinning doesn't bother me too much.

Moot point however for people like the OP unfortunately, as there is no way to turn it off.

(My mate saw it earlier and the first thing he said was "Ooooh they made the HUD fabulous"...)

Tavin Aikisen wrote:
It's intrusive because I don't want it there and it interferes with the rest of my overview which is customised to my preferences, up until now.

That's fair enough, but I don't see how it interferes with your overview when as far as I know, it doesn't actually do anything to your overview... (Does it? If it does something to the overview I have yet to experience it...)

I will say this, wouldn't this have been better to put in the original feedback thread for the patch rather than start a new topic however? It will probably get seen there.

EDIT: There are a fair few people in that thread saying what you are saying by the way, so it's not just you. But unfortunately you will just have to suck it up. I personally don't see the issue with it.

Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person."
Nate Hill
Rocket No. 9
#11 - 2014-11-05 10:36:34 UTC
I think that's cool. I guess you are a Virgo.
Kiera Minaris
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-11-05 11:14:25 UTC
There is a way to turn it off

Click on the compass, a box should appear.
Click on each type that you want off. (Click on all if you want them all gone)
Simple as that.

If you want them to stop appearing in space
Click on the compass, a box should appear.
Click on the green eye top right of the box.
That will leave the compass working, and stop them from appearing in space.
Serene Repose
#13 - 2014-11-05 11:31:24 UTC
Tavin Aikisen wrote:
Sorry, don't like it. Don't want it. How do I turn it off, please? Ugh
Yay! Someone had to say it! It had to be YOU. Whoopee. You don't like it. I'll alert the media. Turn it off by Alt+F4.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
The Tomonator
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2014-11-05 13:26:08 UTC
I wonder how many dev hours were spent thinking it up, coding it, testing it ... all for a pointless added feature that no-one was asking for and does squat to most game play ... time and money that could have been spent on stuff that is actually wanted by the playerbase?

(comment applicable to several other UI 'advances' over recent years actually)

anyway ... that's my only bug against it. Now I've turned it off, more or less, I can get back to the game, so the thing itself it not a irritation. Just the wasted effort in it's development.
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#15 - 2014-11-05 13:39:38 UTC
The Tomonator wrote:
I wonder how many dev hours were spent thinking it up, coding it, testing it ... all for a pointless added feature that no-one was asking for and does squat to most game play ... time and money that could have been spent on stuff that is actually wanted by the playerbase?

(comment applicable to several other UI 'advances' over recent years actually)

anyway ... that's my only bug against it. Now I've turned it off, more or less, I can get back to the game, so the thing itself it not a irritation. Just the wasted effort in it's development.


I'm sorry you find it useless.

I like the compass effect, and had I thought of it first, I'd have asked for it. Kudos to CCP for thinking up a feature I wanted before I even knew I wanted it!

Thanks for not sourcing features, or the lack thereof, from this guy. :)

I don't judge people by their race, religion, color, size, age, gender, or ethnicity. I judge them by their grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation, clarity of expression, and logical consistency.
The Tomonator
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2014-11-05 13:42:29 UTC
War Kitten wrote:
The Tomonator wrote:
I wonder how many dev hours were spent thinking it up, coding it, testing it ... all for a pointless added feature that no-one was asking for and does squat to most game play ... time and money that could have been spent on stuff that is actually wanted by the playerbase?

(comment applicable to several other UI 'advances' over recent years actually)

anyway ... that's my only bug against it. Now I've turned it off, more or less, I can get back to the game, so the thing itself it not a irritation. Just the wasted effort in it's development.


I'm sorry you find it useless.

I like the compass effect, and had I thought of it first, I'd have asked for it. Kudos to CCP for thinking up a feature I wanted before I even knew I wanted it!

Thanks for not sourcing features, or the lack thereof, from this guy. :)



That's cool. Glad you find it useful. Lol It's funationality though was kind of there before (via map), this just bring it into main view. Effectively a shortcut.

And, I'm no person to source features from - I'm the most indecisive person ever. lol
Ydnari
Estrale Frontiers
#17 - 2014-11-05 13:43:01 UTC
Serene Repose wrote:
Tavin Aikisen wrote:
Sorry, don't like it. Don't want it. How do I turn it off, please? Ugh
Yay! Someone had to say it! It had to be YOU. Whoopee. You don't like it. I'll alert the media. Turn it off by Alt+F4.

By activating 4th midslot?

--
Cidanel Afuran
Grant Village
#18 - 2014-11-05 13:48:13 UTC
Seraph Essael wrote:
Well, that didn't last long did it...

You can't. Besides it's not like it's in the way or distracting.

Now what I would like is a shortcut for the damned D-Scan again...


You can add it back. In the shortcuts menu, I changed the probe scanner to be alt+P, and D-scan to be alt+D.
Serene Repose
#19 - 2014-11-05 19:00:54 UTC
The Tomonator wrote:
I wonder how many dev hours were spent thinking it up, coding it, testing it ... all for a pointless added feature that no-one was asking for and does squat to most game play ... time and money that could have been spent on stuff that is actually wanted by the playerbase?

(comment applicable to several other UI 'advances' over recent years actually)

anyway ... that's my only bug against it. Now I've turned it off, more or less, I can get back to the game, so the thing itself it not a irritation. Just the wasted effort in it's development.
So. When does your game release? With your level of expertise in how people should spend their time and resources, it should be the ultimate MMO! We can't wait!

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#20 - 2014-11-05 21:15:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Ranger 1
The Tomonator wrote:
War Kitten wrote:
The Tomonator wrote:
I wonder how many dev hours were spent thinking it up, coding it, testing it ... all for a pointless added feature that no-one was asking for and does squat to most game play ... time and money that could have been spent on stuff that is actually wanted by the playerbase?

(comment applicable to several other UI 'advances' over recent years actually)

anyway ... that's my only bug against it. Now I've turned it off, more or less, I can get back to the game, so the thing itself it not a irritation. Just the wasted effort in it's development.


I'm sorry you find it useless.

I like the compass effect, and had I thought of it first, I'd have asked for it. Kudos to CCP for thinking up a feature I wanted before I even knew I wanted it!

Thanks for not sourcing features, or the lack thereof, from this guy. :)



That's cool. Glad you find it useful. Lol It's funationality though was kind of there before (via map), this just bring it into main view. Effectively a shortcut.

And, I'm no person to source features from - I'm the most indecisive person ever. lol

Actually Tom, the ability to have your bookmarks (among other things) show up in space and be easy to orient on has been asked for repeatedly over the years.

They did their best to come up with a practical way to visualize this that was useful but not overly obtrusive, and I'm pretty sure they knew that no matter what they came up with there would be a handful of people who have no need or desire to locate things around their current solar system quickly.

I'm afraid you may just have to take cold comfort in the fact that what is a minor irritation for you is actually pretty damn handy for the rest of the player base. Smile

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