Cyrus Militani wrote:----In Battle----
Informational Popovers--
Problem:
The TAB key opens the leader-board will a full screen popup that disrupts game play. Trying to close this menu is even more frustrating because hitting ESC doesn't close it fast enough, and I think hitting ESC again opens a different menu. It sometimes takes 2-3 seconds before I'm able to recover. Look how close the TAB key is to WASD (Up, Left, Down, Right). I have hit this button so many times unintentionally causing a death in an expensive suit I've lost count. I rant about this constantly.
Solution:
- Allow the keyboard keys to be rebound to keys that I want.
- Replace those full screen popups with quick loading temporary popovers that don't disrupt game play. Meaning:
-- The menu is semi-transparent.
-- I can still move around a shoot.
-- Holding the button down activates menu (w/ min press of, lets say 50 milliseconds).
-- Releasing button deactivates menu.
Restocking In Battle--
Problem:
If you run out of stock on a suit you have to go through a few menus to restock a suit. Sometimes after restocking that suit it selects the previous suit you had (bug?). Getting back in battle can take longer than I would like.
Solution:
Let me select the suit and restock it in the background. I'd be willing to pay a 10% ISK penalty to get into battle that much faster. If I want to restock more than 1x suit, then I can go through the whole menu.
ISK Proficiency--
Problem:
Currently there is no way to know how much ISK was lost vs how much was gained. I currently put the cost in thousands in the fitting name (manually) and keep a running total in my head. Even then, I don't know how many WP I got from each fitting before I got terminated. Yes I spent 50,000 on this suit, but was it worth it? How many WP did I get while in this suit? How much damage in / out and heal in / out did I do? Yes this suit costs 10k and this one costs 50k and I spent 100k (gasp!) but did the 50k suit contribute to the team more?
Solution:
- In battle, perhaps when selecting a fitting for spawn, show ISK out.
- End of battle, Show a total ISK out vs ISK in. How much profit?
- End of battle, Dedicate a tab to proficiency. Show WP in/out, damage in/out, healing in/out, ISK out, kills, vehicle blown up, and duration for each fitting before termination. If someone revives you, that doesn't count as a termination. If you switch to a different suit from a supply depot it "counts" but would show 0 ISK out.
WP Gain vs Repair & Restock Messages -
Problem: They look the same. Blue text.
Solution: Change the color. Things that give you WP should be one color, things that don't should be another.
--Out of Battle--
Battle History--
Problem: You can only see the last battle. You lose that information when you log out.
Solution: Have a battle history. If I want to see the result of the last 10 battles, let me, and keep it around even when I log out.
Restocking Fittings--
Problem:
The fitting restock is terrible. It blindly restocks everything by 1x, even when you have too much of something in the fitting already.
Solution:
Take other fittings into account. If I have two fittings that both use Enhanced Armor Plates and it takes up 3 low slots between the two fittings it should be no more than 3x of that module. So if I have 100 Enhanced Armor Plates and I restock both fittings to 20 it should not restock the Enhanced Armor Plates. In this example it should make sure I have up to 60.
This would work by looking at the other suit and seeing that it already has a stock of 20. When I restock the second suit it should restock a module to satisfy that fitting, without taking away from the other fittings.
I currently have to do this manually by restocking modules individually, and it takes a lot of time. Because of a lack of time I have to be somewhat sloppy about it.
Managing Fittings --
Problem:
Managing fittings should be more intuitive and faster.
Solution:
- Allow the player to manually sort fittings.
- Allow player to set a preferred stock level for each fitting.
- Allow player to "restock all" based on preferred stock of each fitting.
- Show the price of a fitting in the list by thousands. If something cost 50,000 ISK show 50k in the name.
Fitting Stats --
Problem:
There are a lot of stats that are affected by skills/modules that are not shown on the fitting that are shown on the suit attributes. OK this module effects this stat by X percent. What is it now? It shows the base stat in the market attributes, but it does not show it in the fitting. There is a stacking penalty, but what is it and by how much? This damage mod increases my Light weapon damage, but what is the stat at right now?
Solution:
- Show every stat before skills and mods.
- Show every stat after skills and before mods.
- Show every stat after skills and after mods.
No Online Status --
Problem: Contacts is useless because you don't know whether they're online or not. People work around this by using chat channels. If the person is offline they don't show up in the channel.
Solution: Add an online status to the contacts list.
Looking for squad --
Problem:
It's time consuming to get people into a squad, especially those on your contact list or chat channel. "lfs" is the common thing you see when someone is looking for a squad in a chat channel. By the time you get out of battle they're already in a different squad.
Solution:
- Show squad status in contact list and chat channels.
- Show battle status in contact list and chat channels.
- Have a squad setting to allow players in chat channels or on your contact list to join your squad without being invited.
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