Orisa Medeem
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.31 23:14:00 -
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Here are my thoughts:
- The pointers and in-space pointers help a lot, but I think you don't use them enough. You should also use them for the ui elements of accept mission button, complete mission button, item hangar in the inventory window, etc.
- In the part where it says the stargate will be highlighted yellow, the word yellow is highlighted green. I think you should highlight it yellow.
- Can you make the mission shortcut in the upper-left work with both left-click and right-click? It is a bit confusing to use right-click for almost everything, but use left-click just for this.
- I understand you are guiding the users to use context menus all the time to simplify the tutorial , but I don't think this is enough of a reason not to teach them all the basic stuff they will need later on. My suggestion here is to include a paragraph on the fourth or fifth time you ask the users to right-click something saying "Keep in mind that you can issue most of these commands by right-clicking the desired element in the overview or in space or by selecting them in the overview and then using the buttons in the selected item window. Try them all to check which you are more comfortable with."
- Again, I understand you are trying to simplify the tutorial, but not teaching them about hotkeys as fast as possible is really, really, really bad. As someone who started playing when the chat channel was still the 'master of all the keys' I assure you that the longer you go without using them the worst the playability will be and the harder to change the habits later. The suggestion here is to either add another 'career' tutorial for 'advanced general topics' with all the stuff you dropped and other stuff not otherwise covered or, specifically for the hotkeys, go for a non-canonical way to address this and add a counter for each command type that has a hotkey. Once the user issues a command some ten or fifteen times without using the hotkey, display a tooltip saying what the hotkey for that command is.
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