That is the ewar time on the Raven, instead of the normal bar, it is also displayed as the circle graph...I caught this from a simple glance. <.<


+1 to ALL OF THIS. THIS IS AWESOME AND I LOVE YOU. The UI needs massive updates and this looks fantastic. There will be some people who don't like change, as always, but I think it is glorious.

Now can I have drones redone please? Pretty please? Just the UI part, it is super awful terribad.

The red damaged stripes.. why they are not progressing counter clockwise? I think it's more intuitive. All damage is counterclockwise. This new circle indicators are different.

Love the changes. I think it'll be pretty intuitive when you're actually dealing damage as to which bars are shields etc. I'll just add in my voice that I'd really like to keep lock timers in there. I like being able to tell my fleet it'll take me thirty seconds to lock them in my carrier, etc. Telling them they have to wait two thirds of a lock timer bar isn't very helpful.

The client has all the information we need already... if anything you should be worried about client performance. But we are keeping a close eye on that, and if the client is not performing well enough, we are ready to react to that and cut stuff if needed.

The hit icons will not play there... there is no room for them.
We don't all agree on how the targeted/agressing brackets will be... they might just stay as they are now except their blink rate and color/opacity will match the inspace targeted/agressing brackets

The left one.

So..

• Left: Shield
• Right: Armor
• Bottom: Structure

Not totally sure why but I think it may have something to do with reading order (left to right) and that I (and probably most other players) visualize the three stats as layers that sit on top of each other. I know the images in the devblog have it the other way around but if you want to do that I would rotate the arcs by 45-¦ counterclockwise as I feel that arrangement/layout makes more sense. Anyways, you should probably keep the "flow" of the eyes in a reading direction, which is not what it is currently...

Edit:

Should also probably make sure that the arcs deplete in the direction they are meant to be read, not the other way around. So shield should deplete towards armor, armor should deplete towards structure, and structure should deplete towards... well your explosion.

Love the new changes. However, I was hoping for possibly adding capacitor state to the target lock. This is something that's been asked for again and again. We can see shields, armor, and structure hitpoint percentages, but we cannot read the targets capacitor. I think adding this will go a long way for those who like to neut. I know that I don't neut a lot because I'm unsure just how effective I am at disabling my target. Having this information will mix up pvp a bit.

Looks awsome! but we need the visual timer on locking another vessel. I wouldnt mind having a visual on the targeted ships cap either!

Some nice thoughts there!

I love and adore this development, I was JUST saying on my alliance voice chat about the targeting system and how it is needing a serious overhaul. Here are my proposals / suggestions:

Color Coordinating and Coding is DIRE!

Blue for shields and give the option to have it a solid bar or a detailed bar that glows like shields do.
A Rusty Gold for Armor. extra detail could be that is is shiny as it is a full bar but becomes broken and damaged as it degrades.
Hull would be Silver I'd think.

Another idea for them is to keep them a solid color as you have them, but as damage is dealt the bar will pulse very subtly with small hits or give a big visual pulse on big hits.

Scrolling Combat Text: Something that is beyond popular and almost standard in so many games can be easily worked to have that EVE online feel; You keep the same font size, but instead of that little box in the middle (which you can choose to have it or not) you instead have the damage dealt to your target bounce off of that ship in clear text (with options for standard EVE Online font, or two or three other simple fonts to move with a player's personality choice)

The damage you receive will be a small font number bouncing off of your own ship status overlay.

Modules that inflict damage will have their damage dealt to the target also appear coming just off of the module icon.

Shield boosting modules, Nosferatu, shield rep, etc. will also have small bits of text bouncing gently off of those modules.

All damage types will be color-coded, combinations of damages will have their color schemes split on the bouncing text, if you do more Heat (red) than EM (dark blue) then you would have the numbers appear where more of the text is dominated by red OR you could simply keep the text as you desire but put the slightest underlining that is color-coded.

Would also be awesome to know the Shield Boost Per Second, Remote Armor Repair Per Second, Capacitor Transfer Amount Per Second, Nosferatu Drain Per Second, etc. in the ship fitting. But that is an optional semi-unrelated suggestion perhaps for other things you folks are working on.

Thank you for reading my ideas, If you'd like a Gimp2 artist creation of what my ideal overview would look like, I could also submit a file in a week, as I now work quite a lot in demolition. But I am proficient with art programs and I could always whip together some jpeg images of my suggestions in this post.

Alright, time to mine.

So... WHICH ONE IS SHIELD?!!

Seriously, why don't I know this yet!?! Stop ignoring me just because I'm asking the difficult questions nobody else wants to ask!

well also allow me to help re-rail the discussion by offering an idea with a few mock up pictures....

http://i.imgur.com/8h0e9.jpg - red
http://i.imgur.com/CoehQ.jpg - orange
http://i.imgur.com/oTOEx.gif - green

Introduce a traffic light system for giving pilots indications of gun/ missile range and tracking. How it would work is as follows and is listed in order of priority, where a higher priority colour overrides a lesser one:

• Red: out of falloff range and/or out of tracking speed
• Orange: In falloff range and/or within +/- 10% of tracking speed
• Green: In optimal range and/or within tracking speed

This traffic light system would only appear on the selected object and only when either a pilot has moused over a weapon group or has a weapon group activated on a target.



This may seem a bit of a big helping hand for noobs but when you consider how people fight within weapon systems this could serve as a guide but not a full proof way of knowing you're going to hit a target effectively in a given situation. for example...

Autocannon PvP ships generally fight at half falloff so being in a AC cynabal for example you'd not want to get within 10km of a target typically so you wouldnt fight when your reticle hits green flashy.

Missiles use an explosion radius vs sig radius calculations that shouldnt be used to indicate tracking on this system, adding some requirement of further study and knowledge of ur target and your weapon system.

FYI the green flashy is so that the 3 colours are easily distinguishable by all forms of colour blindness.