Bring Back The Verbose Tool Tips PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

posted on January 11th, 2010, 8:57 am

Hi Doca/Optec,

Thanks for an absolutely great new patch, i must say the new interface looks amazing with its top down view, 30 ship selection and so on, just beautiful...

However you took away the ability to just hover over a ship model on the main screen and read all about it and it's stats instead you have to select that one ship then scroll over each individual icon to see its passive abilities and read about it which is very combersone and requires loads of micromanagement when you quickly want to see what a ship does or compare one rank to another, not very noob friendly 

whilst before i could have 30 selected but still hoover over just that one and read about it and what it does.

so please bring back verbose tooltips... instead of just O/D/S as they arent much without the passives....

thank you

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:26 am

you can easily identify all passives and subsystems by selecting a vessel, they are displayed in the subsystem view

posted on January 11th, 2010, 11:17 am

i think thats just what he did... we felt that the tooltips were too overloaded with information. thats one of the reason we transferred those information to the subsystem tooltips.

posted on January 11th, 2010, 12:09 pm

I'm actually in support of the new tooltips. You can still click on enemy vessels to see their stats. It won't be long before you are used to the game and you will know most vessels passives anyway. The only problem I could forsee is borg, because with each vessel you need to click one each one to check it's individual stats, excluding Off/Deff/Sys.

posted on January 11th, 2010, 5:13 pm

<- wants the old tooltipps back ... or a option to turn em on.

posted on January 11th, 2010, 5:16 pm

i would prefer both, with the previously mentioned option to give everybody their preference.

if not listing all the specials and their features in the tooltip, just list the names of the passives, and the effects to O/D/S, so its easy to see whats going on.

posted on January 11th, 2010, 5:43 pm

totally agree for the need of a switch^^

posted on January 11th, 2010, 6:06 pm

wasn't there a time when hovering over a ship would display shield and hull strength?  that seems to be missing and IMHO needs a comeback

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:11 pm

Yes, I wish I could see special energy, hull damage, system damage on hover... like previously. Makes it damn hard to micromanage without that

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:21 pm

wasn't there a time when hovering over a ship would display shield and hull strength?  that seems to be missing and IMHO needs a comeback

Yes, I wish I could see special energy, hull damage, system damage on hover... like previously. Makes it damn hard to micromanage without that

correct me if i'm wrong but dont they appear at the top when u hover, or is that only if you click a unit?

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:23 pm

yep they appear right in the middle of your screen to ease micro management

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:30 pm

They don't appear there when you hover do they? Or did I miss that in my sleep deprived state? 

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:33 pm

they appear on hover, just like the small status bar before, just more visible

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:34 pm

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on January 11th, 2010, 9:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

oke doke, sorry I missed that

EDIT: derr... why did I pay attention to that when I had one unit selected, and not when I had a bunch 

[Myles]

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:37 pm

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yeah, the new system is much improved in my humblest opinion. the interface looks so nice.

a request: when i have a fleet selected and i can see in the fleet display at the bottom that some are damaged i would like the ability to see its hull/shields status without either selecting it, or moving my focus to it. i always wondered if it were possible that when you hover over the icon of the ship in the fleet display, could the same unit info appear as if you were hovering over the actual unit.