Del Narveux
Dukes of Hazard
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Posted - 2009.03.13 06:39:00 -
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Apologies if this is being discussed elsewhere (feel free to lock/merge if it is), but we all know search doesn't work too well and I didn't want to clog up the main Apocrypha feedback thread with a mess of /signed for one relatively non-critical issue. I seem to recall reading somewhere a CCP guy say that if enough people said they wanted the pre-Apocrypha fitting window back, they would consider it. Well, allow me to emphatically say yes, I would like that.
The new window isn't as chaotic and arbitrary as the original mockup in the devblog, but it still got a lot of issues and frankly doesn't bring much to the table for non T3 ships. The old low/med/high layouts had spatial relevance, and just made sense--high was 'on top' of med, which was on top of low. Which makes perfect sense to anybody who's undocked and noticed how the modules show up on the in-space UI. The new system is way too arbitrary--maybe it makes armor tankers feel better that their mods arent 'on the bottom' or something, but it's confusing and totally nonintuitive.
The 'PIP window' is sort of cool, but it slows down performance and adds absolutely nothing for non T3 ships. Let's not forget, the ship is also being displayed behind the window so it's effectively rendering the scene twice. If I want to see what my ship looks like, I can simply move or minimize the fitting window and there it is, in all its glory.
Displaying the ammunition instead of the weapon with small ammo icon is a major step backward. When I'm messing with fittings I want to be able to tell at a glance what I have fitted, not have to mouse over everything to see. While on the subject, the drop-down icons when mousing a module don't really do anything that a good right click doesn't.
To clarify, I'm not saying to remove the new version entirely, as I understand it has some features that are necessary for T3 ships. But I would like to have the option to use the old style fitting for non T3 ships if I want to. If it aint broke dont fix it, and change just for the sake of change is not productive. Anyone else agree, or am I totally out of my gourd here?
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