Cause you cheat :(

Blog said that you get larger options if you have better resolution. Developer used 1920x1200 screen which can only support 150% (1024x768 scaled 150% is 1536x1152).

However 2560x1440 screen is able to support upto 187% scaling. For 300% scaling you need 3072x2304 or better resolution.

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Awesome CCP, keep it up!

P.S. Learn to fit goddamn!

I was pretty confused about this myself but hey, it's always nice to have some extra "face time" on the top of the dev blog page, no? : >

It's nice having this feature, by the way. It was the first new Crucible option that I turned on and tried out and it has made playing Eve so much easier for me. Thank you!

This seems like a nice feature, can't wait for it to be on Tranquility.

Also, although I'm sure someone else has said it a while ago, it would be cool to scale different parts of the UI separately

Edit: ok ccp Punkturis already said this is a good idea, which makes me very happy!

I'm appalled at this change because it strikes me that the default UI size (newly labeled 100%, oh wowzies how pretty!!1!!1one!!) is now larger than what it was before the change.

lol, most. ruhtarded. dev. response. evar.

"no, the UI isn't bigger, it just takes up more space and doesn't show sh!t now because our font is now drawn with a crayon. But it's not bigger dammit!"

The font can be bigger while using the same amount of space in the UI. When we had the old font there was empty space around the text, the new larger font has less empty space around it in the UI, hence the same amount of information take up the same amount of space.

That's my unprofessional analysis though.

Is the font bigger?
If yes, then to get your windows to show the same amount of information, you have to adjust your windows sizes bigger (whether it's automatic or the user is forced to adjust it themselves is irrelevant.) Hence the footprint of the UI (user interface, all the 2D elements, windows, etc) is bigger. Your users do not care if it's the font's fault or what, a bigger font means the 2D stuff takes up more space with less room for 3D stuff.

I actually changed computers/monitors around the time the new font went live, plus with the mandatory wiping of windows positions with crucible, it was hard to do a detailed size comparison, although even on my old monitor with 90% UI scaling, the client still feels more cramped.

I'm on a 1280x800 laptop, and I've set scaling to 90%, but it's actually too small. I find numbers hard to discern, and am considering scaling back to 100% even though then my small screen feels very crowded. And note this is a pixels issue, not a square centimeter issue.

I think I'd like an intermediate 95% scaling step, though. That would give a slight but very needed improvement to screen real estate (especially important if I resume flying missions, or if I try Incursions) while probably not giving the same number-reading-problems as 90% scaling does.

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The specific problem is that when I have large stacks of stuff, like minerals, I can't actually see how much is in them without having to mouse over, at 90%. I can see the first digit easily but I can't know the order of magnitude for sure. For a trader (even a part-time trader) that's problematic. I think 95% might solve that. Otherwise you're going to have to do a font tweak, or some other interface tweak.

(Note that I don't need to know precisely how much is in a stack. I can mouse over it if I need that. But it does bother me a lot that I can't know the order of magnitude, like if it is 87 million or 8.7 million or 870k tritanium.)

For the same reason, you might want to implement 105% too. Not for my sake, it won't be useful for me in my current situation, but maybe some other players will benefit from it. Also note I'm not asking you to let players set scaling to 214.33% or other such silly precision, but the 90% to 100% step is slightly too coarsegrained, and it occurs to me that perhaps some other players find the 100% to 110% step to likewise be slightly too coarsegrained.

Any chance of having the contexual menu (right mouse click) having it's own seperate 're-sizing' option. I'm happy with my general text/UI size, but avoid using the contextual message because its too small and easy to misclick.