De-verbose the passive explanations

posted on June 14th, 2010, 4:22 pm

Generally, passives have one, maybe two main points, a boost vs something and a vulnerability vs something. However, the tooltips for the passives are paragraphs of text explaining/justifying the passive. After reading the explanation once, I never feel the need to read it again - I just want effect of the passive because I'm reading it to remember what it was.

Might I suggest that either:
* The tooltips' text was distilled down to the specific effects of the passive (take out all the other stuff)
OR
*  Give the key points (the specific effects) a different color (orange) so they stand out more.

[Tyler]

posted on June 14th, 2010, 4:24 pm

Last edited by Tyler on June 14th, 2010, 4:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.

If the tooltips were to be changed, I'd go with the second option. You cannot have Star Trek without its technobabble explanations, it just doesn't work.

[Nebula_Class_Ftw]

posted on June 14th, 2010, 4:35 pm

Last edited by Nebula_Class_Ftw on June 14th, 2010, 9:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Agreed, I hate having to wade thru a paragraph to find out the counter for some random ship. I think orange might be the wrong color tho, maybe do blue for damage reduction from, and red for damage increase to.

EDIT:two/to typo, never done that homophone mix up before.

posted on June 14th, 2010, 9:34 pm

I'd support the highlighting if necessary - but definitely not the removal. That contributes to the atmosphere of the game, just like all the other descriptions

posted on June 14th, 2010, 10:30 pm

i like highlight idea

sometimes i read passives and i dun understand wtf they do though.. >.>;;

posted on June 14th, 2010, 10:47 pm

Maybe having a techno-babble section and a section with the numbers would be good. Make it somewhat like the standard weapon tool-tips.

posted on June 15th, 2010, 12:14 am

noted down for improvements