Offensive/Defensive values on ship info panel

posted on December 14th, 2009, 9:32 am

I'd like to be able to see the offensive and defensive values for any ship without having to hover over them to get the pop-up. (I'm not suggesting removing the values from the pop-ups)

The most natural place I can think of is to put them next to the weapons and shields icons on the main status panel (when a ship/station is selected).

(see attached for two mock ups variations of the above idea using the new interface)

Ideally, I'd like to see the offensive values of the torpedoes, phasers and pulse-weapons as three separate values.

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posted on December 14th, 2009, 3:53 pm

Looks nice.  I like the top one, and would add system value underneath to make it parallel with the systems side.

posted on December 14th, 2009, 3:59 pm

I love this idea!!  I have not tried to modify armada2 or flops but if the devs of flops won't impliment this I would love to try! 

posted on December 14th, 2009, 4:10 pm

That looks cool it makes since as well.

posted on December 14th, 2009, 5:08 pm

Also add system please . On the whole a nice idea - especially since it's so irritating to have to hover the cursor over enemy vessels to figure out which one is the vet 

posted on December 15th, 2009, 8:05 am

A few more iterations of the idea:

* () in top right corner (ex: "Battleship (Large)" ) - this I like
- Not shown: Tool-tip over class/size text explaining torpedo evasion and pulse weapon damage reduction
* Green vs Burnt Orange for values (green probably wins)
* 5 vs 6 sub-system icons (5 probably wins - looks cleaner)
* System value in parenthesis near special energy (meh?)
* Tried (but failed) to differentiate weapon systems (torpedo/beam/pulse) and show their independant values

There's definitely a problem with this panel getting too busy (and then becoming hard to 'glance and know'). We're all used to seeing offensive/defensive/system values stacked, but there's not a good icon to put it by (technically, it's associated with all sub-systems). Of this batch, I would take the top one, without the system value as my favorite at the moment.

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posted on December 15th, 2009, 11:52 am

I like the third one...

posted on December 15th, 2009, 2:35 pm

I like the second one.  And the Battleship designation looks nice.

posted on December 15th, 2009, 2:44 pm

How can this be done devs? Because maybe I could use this in my mods.

posted on December 15th, 2009, 3:57 pm

Yeah, all those numbers really do make the panel seem crowded, although I give my vote for the second on, as that carries the most information while being the "cleanest". Either that or not including any offense, defense, system values there.

posted on April 4th, 2010, 8:42 am

Another iteration of the idea...

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posted on April 4th, 2010, 1:58 pm

That would be nice

posted on April 4th, 2010, 2:07 pm

I like the last one posted best.

posted on April 4th, 2010, 4:52 pm

Yeah, the new one looks really nice, Yandon!

posted on April 5th, 2010, 3:30 pm

I like the one next to the systems that also gets the break down (maybe when you hover over the value?)

Though the defense value should be a nice blue.