wow, really?

To be honest, I had a pretty hard time seeing the brackets... I would be scared that the colors would just blend in with the ships and you wouldn't see them that well.
And I'm afraid that it's a bit out of scope for us, at least for now... but interesting idea though

If you have many smaller hits, your bracket should be really busy, and therefore drawing attention to you.

This is actually something I've been thinking about, and I don't know if people would rather press 8 buttons just to try to fly under the radar.

Now this is what I'd like to see

Hmm, how is it useful to you to know what damage type you are getting shot by? It's not like you can adjust your resistances on the fly... (at least unless you have carrier support)

maybe not for you Bubanni, but most people in eve dont go around in slowcat carrier groups or have configured carriers on hotdrops to allow on the fly module switching.

itd be a very niche thing for a very select group of people, people who should be able to tell by damage notifications if someones hitting their resist hole or having their shots be pinged off their highest effective tank profile.

The day starts at midnight, at 12 o'clock, which is at the top of the clock, and the day progresses clock-wise. The targeting animation starts at "12 o'clock" and progresses clock-wise, same for the damage (shields starts at "12 o'clock"). Your mod timer animation observation is correct, it progresses clock-wise but starts at "6 o'clock"; perhaps that should be changed to start at "12 o'clock" as well. But that's for CCP karkur and Team Pony Express to think about if and how they want to tackle, not me.

You can save cap by activating only the hardeners you need, and you can choose to overheat just the needed hardeners so you can overheat for longer periods before burning out.

I'm sorry that you feel that way.

The main reason we don't want to offer both is that it's a pain to maintain.... every time you need to update or fix something, you need to make sure you are not messing up the other thing. Dealing with special cases eats up our time. Also, the code is old. Sometimes parts of it need to be restructured so it makes more sense, and that can even result in better performance for you. But it gets harder and harder to keep the new code and the old code compatible if you need to make those changes.

Of course I like being nice (I'll even put a smiley here to demonstrate that ), but we are actually asking for feedback and taking it in. That does not mean we are going to do everything people suggest, or completely change our feature, but we taking it in and evaluating it. We actually spent most of yesterday talking this over, looked at screenshots people posted and discussed many of the suggestions.

I don't see the need to keep responding to people who say the are confused by the health bars, because I've already stated that we acknowledge that people are confused about it and that we are working on it. And in some cases I don't know what to say, because I might not have the answer right now or can't comment on it... it doesn't mean we are not reading it (or should I maybe comment on every single post I read "Roger"?)

On a more personal note it just makes me sad when people act like this. Fozzie is indeed doing a great job, but so is a whole lot of other people I work with. We come here to talk to you guys but it's like your damned if you do and damned if you don't.... and the more people that act like that, the more likely is that we will just not bother and just go watch TV or something.

One thought, And I don't know if this would be too much work to implement, But if there was a post at the top of the thread which you updated with a list of the ideas that you (collectively) thought were good that might be nice as we could see what suggestions made the grade as it were.

However I agree that niceness is the order of the day.

This whole feature is an utter waste of development time.
Why alter the targeting UI at all?

You could have spent the time on things like, I dunno...the inventory UI abomination, thinking through and making changes to the broken moon goo mechanic....you know, trivial things like that.

But no, you have to create pretty baubles to distract the players from what is really wrong with the game.

Well, it is certainly important that Eve do things to make you and the other fan-boi's feel better.