Shorter and clearer passive descriptions.

[Bigmachk]

posted on September 5th, 2010, 5:07 am

Last edited by Bigmachk on September 5th, 2010, 5:08 am, edited 1 time in total.

One of the main problems I find in Fleet Ops is reading quickly what each passive ability does. Heres a example:

High Density Shield Generators
(passive)

"These modified shield generators create a very dense protective field around this vessel, greatly reducing damage received from weapons fired over a long weapon range. Its effectiveness drops if a weapon is fired from closer distances. The shield generators consume large amounts of energy, which reduce the special energy regeneration rate and slightly reduce damage dealt against short range attackers as the energy spikes for weapon systems are lower."

In my opinion descriptions like this are too lengthy to read through while you are trying to concentrate on other things. What I ask for is a short, to the point, in a different color font summary below it explaining what it does so I could quickly glance and know what it does, maybe bright green for positive effects and red for negative effects.

Something like:

High Density Shield Generators
(passive)

"These modified shield generators create a very dense protective field around this vessel, greatly reducing damage received from weapons fired over a long weapon range. Its effectiveness drops if a weapon is fired from closer distances. The shield generators consume large amounts of energy, which reduce the special energy regeneration rate and slightly reduce damage dealt against short range attackers as the energy spikes for weapon systems are lower."

Damage from long range reduced by 50%
Damage dealt to short range reduced by 10%

It would make playing fleetops alot easier for me to play anyway.

posted on September 5th, 2010, 5:12 am

Agreed, a summary breakdown at the bottom in a standout colour would be nice but I think loads of people have already requested modifications to the tool tips afaik. Maybe Yandonman should think about making fleetops tutorial videos since he's already experienced at providing voice-overs!

posted on September 5th, 2010, 11:20 am

Agreed, a summary breakdown at the bottom in a standout colour would be nice but I think loads of people have already requested modifications to the tool tips afaik. Maybe Yandonman should think about making fleetops tutorial videos since he's already experienced at providing voice-overs!

we already have a guide lol. i mean a tutorial video would either be very basic, or very long.

posted on September 5th, 2010, 2:11 pm

A video guide is already in progress in fact - it will basically be the Unit Analysis and Counter Table sections of the guide

Having those very precise descriptions of passives on the tooltips would be extremely time consuming, as the passives are automatically generated, but tooltips are not. This means that after every patch, the values would have to be corrected which could be quite annoying. It may be possible soon that a flunky might fix that.... however, but I'll have to ask Optec. 

posted on September 5th, 2010, 2:22 pm

give the starbase a tooltip for the passives...this way everyone can look things up and efford for updates is small

posted on September 5th, 2010, 2:40 pm

This has been brought up before, the general agreement was to highlight the important parts in a different color. Optec responded about it too:

noted down for improvements

posted on September 5th, 2010, 3:06 pm

Well yeah at first ur like WTF is this? But then you get used to the stuff and you know which is which