Why dont go 1 step further and add current active signature radius, for ous with missiles?

As far as moving velocity over, this will go a long way from breaking free of the need for tunnel vision of the overview during fights. Put the most relevant information on the target info box and allow the pilot to quickly assess the situation.

If anything you're only shifting your tunnel vision from the overview (which provides a lot of useful information) to your locked targets (which provides some useful information about a selection of targets) while drastically reducing the amount of information you're receiving with no benefit.

Giving players the option of where to display this information is a good idea, simply shifting it from one section to another is not.



Perhaps you should try engaging multiple targets (try more than you can lock at once) without a lot of this information on your overview and tell us how it goes. I suggest you learn to read the overview quicker instead of trying to break one of the only things in the game that actually works reasonably well.

The key is you don't really care about your angular velocity to anything besides what you are shooting at (same with standard velocity). If you care about that stat, chances are you have them locked. You already see name, hp percents, and distance in the targeting information area, so if you simply add angular and target velocity you grant easy access to that information for your pilots, help demonstrate the importance of that information for informed piloting decisions, and overall lower the learning curve, and lower the unneeded complexity in the UI System.

While I understand what you're getting at, I would disagree that you don't need to care about it. It's incredibly helpful information for damage mitigation, especially when you're the primary.

That said, I do like the idea.

This would be very easy to express in a % to hit % of damage blurb.. and outside of huge fleet fights where brackets are off(or fire.. you like fire right?) it would be a way to speed up information flow in fights. Maybe limit it to active target only to prevent it from dumbing down combat?

To clarify the % factor..
Turrets would function as direct % to hit. IE 85% means 85% chance to hit that target.
Missiles would function as % of damage that will be applied. IE 85% means out of 100 damage 85 will physically hit that target.

You could even jazz it up visually playing into the whole "captain not pilot" flavor by colorizing it.
0-30% Dark Red -> Orange
31-70% Orange -> Yellow Green
71-100% Yellow Green -> Bright Green

You could even center the number in the target circle when selected.

i was brainstorming about something like that too. the only way to reduce the importance of the overview table would be to visualize important stuff in other ways, like color coding or changing the shape of the brackets based on some of the data.


but one problem is, if you present such important stuff in form of colors you have to solve issues with color blind customers. colors fading smoothly from red in to green is the best way to **** with people who have issues with color vision.

Grey hash gradients would be easy enough to use.. and as a bonus you wouldn't even need to change the color to make it work.

To clarify what i mean by grey hash.. It's a technique used to put a pattern within color bands to automatically give color blind people a means of distinguishing the color. Basically for them they get shade+pattern instead of color+shade. You can do this without creating a special option which means more money saved in development.

This would be very easy to express in a % to hit % of damage blurb.. and outside of huge fleet fights where brackets are off(or fire.. you like fire right?) it would be a way to speed up information flow in fights. Maybe limit it to active target only to prevent it from dumbing down combat?

To clarify the % factor..
Turrets would function as direct % to hit. IE 85% means 85% chance to hit that target.
Missiles would function as % of damage that will be applied. IE 85% means out of 100 damage 85 will physically hit that target.

You could even jazz it up visually playing into the whole "captain not pilot" flavor by colorizing it.
0-30% Dark Red -> Orange
31-70% Orange -> Yellow Green
71-100% Yellow Green -> Bright Green

You could even center the number in the target circle when selected.

If anything you're only shifting your tunnel vision from the overview (which provides a lot of useful information) to your locked targets (which provides some useful information about a selection of targets) while drastically reducing the amount of information you're receiving with no benefit.

Giving players the option of where to display this information is a good idea, simply shifting it from one section to another is not.



Perhaps you should try engaging multiple targets (try more than you can lock at once) without a lot of this information on your overview and tell us how it goes. I suggest you learn to read the overview quicker instead of trying to break one of the only things in the game that actually works reasonably well.

you must ADD this column to your overview, as it is not default. However, this extra column takes up additional room in an already bloated spreadsheet.

So instead you want to sh*t up the already hard to read target information?

As a logi I don't care about the angular velocity of the targets I have locked up. I do care about the angular velocity of the hostiles on the overview.