Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2012.02.17 07:33:00 -
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Ok I officially hate what you've done with the overview. The technical crew did a great job as always, but the other departments don't know what they are doing. A good UI is all about functionality, while being as modifiable as possbile, since people like different things and a bad UI is a gamebreaker. Don't make weird and unintuitive functions like overview freeze something you can't get rid off. There was a reason I didn't play with the crtl-key pushed down all the time. It's because while that functionality is very useful in some situations, it's bad in many others. As a bonus you've also managed to implement a set of features that aggrevate the issues the individual features create.
To display the same amount of information as before i have to expand the overview much more. I used to be able to see the names of all the gates/ships/targets in my old overview, but now all I see is "stargate (...)" or "serpentis (A...)". What good is that to me? I need the name(you know the thing that differentiates between targets and is the column title), not redundant common descriptions repeated over and over in every column, that serve no other purpose than to bloat the overview size. Which is extra bad, because of the overview freeze.
Of the overview freeze how I hate you so. Why does it exist as a mandatory feature? I just don't get it. Want to change columns or fiddle with the overview? Need to keep taking the cursor constantly out of the bloated overview or it wont change. Want to filter the targets according to your need? Can't ******* do it, since CCP knows better than you what you want, so it puts every new target in the wrong inconvenient place. I'm constantly having to move my cursor back and forth between the overview and empty space just for it to work like I NEED and WANTit to work. I'm sure some absolutely love it, but that doesn't mean anything for my gameplay. This is why a good UI has options, so people can alter it to fit their personal preference.
The blinking. I think you went out of your way to annoy people with this one. Why isn't it uniform accross all columns? The overview becomes a cacophony of out of synch blinking lights, that is extremely distracting and draws the eye away from the important information. When that important information is in text form, it makes it even worse, since reading while the page is filled with out of synch blinking lights isn't exactly the best environment for reading.
At this point I quit the game in disgust, so I didn't examine the finer points of the new system. I propably missed things good and bad, but ther is too much bad for me at the moment. If you plan on these kinds of UI features to become mandatory with the default UI, I beg you, please allow UI modding. What you think is awesome UI functionality, is bordering on gamebreaking for me. |