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.

GǪlikewise, it would be nice if this kind of information was reciprocal: if you hit a target, it will give visual cues as to what kind of hardeners are being used. This could be as subtle as colour shifts in the hardener effects or (once we get those) in the hit effects, ore more direct by including some kind of resist-bracket description to the damage information (e.g. GǣScratches for 5 damage [heavy resist]Gǥ).

It's only fair, after all: if the target gets the information to adjust his tank, the shooter should get the information to adjust his damage.

This is something we are aware of and plan to address shortly.

Yes, we're still tweaking that. When you see the damage being inflicted it is very obvious, but a common theme of all feedback has been 'which one is shield?'

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.

Please let us keep the option to see raw #'s somewhere. I like to know at a glance, numerically, what the time to lock is

To be fair actually left to right to bottom makes more sense to me.

Shield and armour are destroyed in that order.

Hull is the last to be breached so that is at the bottom (as lets face it you're in trouble if that takes any damage).

Then again I also think that when you get used to it you'll be fine, people hate change etc.

I like the clock analogy, why not a compromise? Counter-clockwise for the indicator - shields on the left, armor on the bottom, hull on the right.

Heck, give it a dropdown in settings, but pick a sane default (counter-clockwise sounds like it might be it). Any way you want it, it's a circular animation on one of those 3 arcs.

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!

That breaks the clock metaphor but reinforces and builds on the visual language already present in the client: enemy ships display damage in (kind of) the same way you do.

In fiddling around with my mock-ups, I've grown to like the idea of right-top-left (counter-clockwise from 5 to 7), largely because it creates a consistency with the damage track for your own ship. The one difference, of course, would be that it's all in a single segmented line rather than three layers, but that feels like a reasonable sacrifice to avoid making the damage track far too fat and unwieldy.

That breaks the clock metaphor but reinforces and builds on the visual language already present in the client: enemy ships display damage in (kind of) the same way you do.

As I said in the blog, this is very much work in progress and we have plenty of time to add one simple counter .
It's def. something we will reconsider since some of you feel so strongly about it, and it might very well make a return

Heh, to achieve this it would be easier just to present "our" shield/armor/hull in same kind of way they are currently displayed for targets :)

Interesting idea

1. Pilots will just turn anything off that distracts them.

2. Pilots will just turn anything off that might possibly contribute to latency.

3. Pilots that engage in PvP will have the experience to know who is who and what threat they pose.

4. Pilots that engage in PvE will not give a damn about flashing stuff, they just kill everything and move on quickly.

5. Pilots in Fleet fights will have graphics turned down, brackets off and use only minimal information to fight.

While I fully understand the need for children to get out there crayons and draw brightly coloured pictures this Dev blog just confirms my belief that CCP has no real understanding of how players actually play EVE, what it is they actually need CCP to fix and why if they wish to increase the player enjoyment of the game they 'NEED', to get a handle on this aspect before they go forwards in this manner.

Introducing fancy flashing thingy's into the game may from there point of view be everything to them right now, play EVE and the multitude of former bugs still evident in the game to a player is the real detractor in EVE.

Want something that will actually make EVE a better place to be, sort the PoS interface maybe, or invest in the servers to reduce latency, maybe correct the chat system, heard about that one have you,

In short try and understand what it is that makes EVE players tick, why are they here in the first place and when they are here what is it they actually do and I can assure you it is not spend every minute trying to kill each other while drooling over your inept attempts at Disney graphics.

If you are determined to introduce this flight of fancy into the game could you please do the one thing that players will really enjoy and add a button to change these graphics to a minimalistic design for those of us that have no need of them, you know the sort of thing, no clutter, less distraction sort of thing, the very reason the original hud/target graphics were changed to begin with all those years ago.

Why the hell would you even consider removing it in the first place ? Seriously

This. Seriously CCP, play your own game before making change for change sake.

Why do we continue to pay your salaries when this is what you spend your time doing?

Pretty much what I was just trying to say.

Reminds me a little bit of the original interface.
Looks good sofar, although I think it should start at 9 o'clock, who starts at 12 o'clock - only students!

1. Pilots will just turn anything off that distracts them.

2. Pilots will just turn anything off that might possibly contribute to latency.

3. Pilots that engage in PvP will have the experience to know who is who and what threat they pose.

4. Pilots that engage in PvE will not give a damn about flashing stuff, they just kill everything and move on quickly.

5. Pilots in Fleet fights will have graphics turned down, brackets off and use only minimal information to fight.

While I fully understand the need for children to get out there crayons and draw brightly coloured pictures this Dev blog just confirms my belief that CCP has no real understanding of how players actually play EVE, what it is they actually need CCP to fix and why if they wish to increase the player enjoyment of the game they 'NEED', to get a handle on this aspect before they go forwards in this manner.

Introducing fancy flashing thingy's into the game may from there point of view be everything to them right now, play EVE and the multitude of former bugs still evident in the game to a player is the real detractor in EVE.

Want something that will actually make EVE a better place to be, sort the PoS interface maybe, or invest in the servers to reduce latency, maybe correct the chat system, heard about that one have you,

In short try and understand what it is that makes EVE players tick, why are they here in the first place and when they are here what is it they actually do and I can assure you it is not spend every minute trying to kill each other while drooling over your inept attempts at Disney graphics.

If you are determined to introduce this flight of fancy into the game could you please do the one thing that players will really enjoy and add a button to change these graphics to a minimalistic design for those of us that have no need of them, you know the sort of thing, no clutter, less distraction sort of thing, the very reason the original hud/target graphics were changed to begin with all those years ago.

CCP Prism X gets it.