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Jim Luc wrote:

I was playing around on SiSi last night and a few thoughts that I hope are addressed, or will be addressed in the near future:

F10 Map:

1. The little expanding on rollover is insane. It causes the server to be queried each time you roll over a star, and many times it expands too quickly so a star I originally intended to focus on is covered up by the expanded list for another star, and since my mouse is now over the expanded list, it expands all of the planets and stations - all for a star that I had no intention of looking at.

2. Change to a click-to-expand system. Rolling over is ok to show the routes, but currently rolling over a star deselects the other star I already had selected. The clear simple fix for this is to allow selection only for clicking a star.

3. F11 Map covers over the F10 map, however it doesn't stop the F10 map from being interacted with - so for instance if your mouse is hovering over the F11 map, it will select a star in the F10 map, even if that star is underneath the F11 overlay map.

Solar System Map:

1. Clicking on an entity should change the rotation of the solar system to be around that entity, so you can zoom in to that selected area. Currently the entire solar system rotates around the sun, and does not change, so it's literally impossible to narrow down your search.

2. Currently there are multiple info tabs open that cover over each other, I'm assuming they are for your current station you're docked at, and current moon or whatever. Based on your viewing angle though, the info tabs cover each other up instead of stacking. Again, this would be better if you can select a celestial that you wish to focus on, both changing rotation and opening up a little info tab for the item you selected.

3. Including a Reset View button would be nice too, for both F10 Map & Solar System map.

Engine Trails:

1. Flying a Tengu, my trails are currently BLUE, however my engine is currently bright YELLOW. It looks a little strange, I'd think that the trail's color should be dependent upon the current engine.

2. Trails disappear abruptly when going into warp, and reappear abruptly when leaving warp. I think they should continue while in warp, and for those that are in a system watching another player warp off it would be cool to see a faint trail in the direction of their warp that fades out. Also there should be a softer distinction between the engine trail and the actual engine. The idea is that the engine is making the trails and is an optical effect made similar to a low shutter speed taking a picture at night, not that they're streamers made out of plastic attached to the rear of our ships.

3. No difference graphically between afterburners, MWD, or basic engines.

4. Trail lines are a bit too sharp and remind me of Tron lightcycles - shouldn't they blur a bit, the farther they are from the
engines?

Audio:

1. I don't hear my ship's engine, and only when in warp I hear the engine kick in about a second after going into warp. I would think I would hear some more powerful engines when kicking in my MWD, afterburners, or warping. I see the engines' graphics go into overdrive when warping, but don't hear the appropriate audio.

Multi-Monitor Support:

1. Would it be possible to limit the 3d viewport to a set screen resolution, ie 1900x1200, while allowing more screen real-estate for the overview & chat & other windows?