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UI Suggestions...
I'm back, and my biggest peeve with the game changes is the new station UI... well, except for the uberThrust 200m/s moths, which I dearly miss, and would give just about anything to own one again, but I digress...
The station UI seems bulky and unintuitive, requiring far too many clicks, especially considering the amount of times I have to click back and forth between different menus and submenus before I find what I'm looking for. It only gets more difficult as I get more frustrated with it or more tired (or intoxicated... I'm not LeberMac after all).
One thing I notice is that the 'purchase selected' button for ships, commodities, etc... is rather unintuitive in its current location. It's too far to the left, when you expect the confirmation button to be to the right out of habit - it's unpredictable.
I think as well that the submenus would work better if they went from top down... and what I mean by that, is that you currently have it as upperTop>side>lowerTop, and I think it would be much easier if it were upperTop>lowerTop>side.
Also, I keep wanting to find the load/unload menu in the ship tab (It's the ship that I'm unloading after all, isn't it?) and become frustrated that I can't more easily manage my cargo hold and station hold - the sell window... where was it again? in the ships section or the commerce? damn hard to fins in any case... anyway, it's kinda difficult to sift through all the items in it and make sense of them... perhaps the lists for cargo/equipment on ships should be collapsed by default?
Finally, what I'd really, really REALLY like to see, is a contextual menu that pops up on right-click (or Ctrl-Click, or whatever it is you Mac people use) on different types of items in your hold/station hold/ship allowing you to perform quick operations with them. For example:
with weapons and cargo in purchase menus: buy, buy max, etc...
with commodities in your hold: unload, unload all, unload and sell, unload and sell all
in station hold: load, , load all, sell, sell all
with weapons and equipment in your hold: unload, unload all, sell, sell all, reload, equip (brings up equip menu, that INCLUDES equipment in your hold)
in station hold: load, load all, sell, sell all, reload, equip
with ships you own: set active, reload, repair, sell, unload, unequip, save as preset
etc... the list goes on. Contextual menus are the coolest thing since hydrospanners, and VO could really use them...
The station UI seems bulky and unintuitive, requiring far too many clicks, especially considering the amount of times I have to click back and forth between different menus and submenus before I find what I'm looking for. It only gets more difficult as I get more frustrated with it or more tired (or intoxicated... I'm not LeberMac after all).
One thing I notice is that the 'purchase selected' button for ships, commodities, etc... is rather unintuitive in its current location. It's too far to the left, when you expect the confirmation button to be to the right out of habit - it's unpredictable.
I think as well that the submenus would work better if they went from top down... and what I mean by that, is that you currently have it as upperTop>side>lowerTop, and I think it would be much easier if it were upperTop>lowerTop>side.
Also, I keep wanting to find the load/unload menu in the ship tab (It's the ship that I'm unloading after all, isn't it?) and become frustrated that I can't more easily manage my cargo hold and station hold - the sell window... where was it again? in the ships section or the commerce? damn hard to fins in any case... anyway, it's kinda difficult to sift through all the items in it and make sense of them... perhaps the lists for cargo/equipment on ships should be collapsed by default?
Finally, what I'd really, really REALLY like to see, is a contextual menu that pops up on right-click (or Ctrl-Click, or whatever it is you Mac people use) on different types of items in your hold/station hold/ship allowing you to perform quick operations with them. For example:
with weapons and cargo in purchase menus: buy, buy max, etc...
with commodities in your hold: unload, unload all, unload and sell, unload and sell all
in station hold: load, , load all, sell, sell all
with weapons and equipment in your hold: unload, unload all, sell, sell all, reload, equip (brings up equip menu, that INCLUDES equipment in your hold)
in station hold: load, load all, sell, sell all, reload, equip
with ships you own: set active, reload, repair, sell, unload, unequip, save as preset
etc... the list goes on. Contextual menus are the coolest thing since hydrospanners, and VO could really use them...
[APPROVED] Great Idea.
Oh BTW "LeberMac" is no longer and I'm his replacement.
Oh BTW "LeberMac" is no longer and I'm his replacement.