Netu's Nonsense

[Netu]

Current nonsense:

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Every question below has been addressed:

• During ship combat, it would be quite nice to be able to see the purge talents more readily. I am memorizing them, certainly, but when you have nearly two full rows of talent it becomes a wash. Two solutions I could think of: allow us to rearrange talents on the bars (for both players and ships?), or have an icon of some sort for the type of buff and debuff the talent does.
  
• If the ship has successfully been defeated as of final boarding victory screen, we should not be able to waste our boarding abilities and have to go back through another round to watch the ship surrender and then back to another screen for victory. Does this make sense? Sorry if it's convoluted.
  
• The bars beneath the ships in ship combat should have some labels explaining what they are; I have seen a few people be confused by them, thinking they are something else.
  
• I find it difficult to navigate the victory screen with a lot of things to do. I strongly feel that the "stuff that is done" should be in an entirely separate screen beneath the actions you can take, or vice versa.
  
• On the victory screen, it would be nice if we could more readily see the faction/reputation changes as they are happening by the actions we are taking with the victory talents and actions.
  
• A way to view rumors and/or faction disputes and allegiances on the Atlas screen. Not as detailed as their respective screens, of course, but something just to say 'Hey, look out.'
  
• A way to more easily search for specific zone types via the galactic map (only visited ones, of course).
  
• Some form of clarity regarding "intimidating command" in the tooltip; it is reference nowhere else that I have seen other than the bounty hunter and commander skills and does not explain specifically what it is.
  
• Perhaps a way to upgrade ship modules to different sizes temporarily, but the ship is "locked" until you reduce the mass/size of a component to make up for the change (this can be done already, but you have to take a few extra steps, and sometimes lose money, but if this is intended, that's totally cool).
  
• A way to enlarge the bottom right log; perhaps it could be as simple as adding a tab to the ship system log from the ship window.
  
• A way to automatically hail and leave ships of friendly factions or higher as to avoid the alert prompt and selections thereafter; perhaps it could be a toggle somewhere that just says whether or not you're interested in attacking or griefing friendly factions.
  
• I bet this is a design choice that I've not seen or heard of yet, but, damage numbers on tooltips of crew in combat? Again, I bet there is a reason these do not exist, I just don't know it yet.
  
• I have seen this idea floated around a bit, and also want to echo it: a way to tell what era you are in, or even a way to know how long into the era we are in we are, or anything, really.
  
• A way to "lock" a crew/anything so that when you sort it stays put no matter what sort options you select.
  
• Given keybindings for interacting with random encounters in space are on their way, will we be able to bind a key to the card game button (both to start the game and to retry)?
  
• It has been brought up a couple of times that the assist modules on ships lead players to think they just add extra stats as a crew member does. "Boost ship skill pool" does make sense, but it's not getting the point across, for whatever reason. Perhaps "Raises Skill Cap" or something?
  
• A "what happened" screen whenever your captain dies. By extension, perhaps whenever a crew member dies, too. 
  
• I am sure this is on the list for keybindings, but I'd like to make sure: A keybinding for the 'land' function.
  
• The ability to see operations skills while on the ship upgrade window in the starport.
  
• Keybindings on the GUI in some fashion for talents. Would be useful to have on everything that has a keybinding, but I don't think that extent is necessary.
• A list of all learned talents.

[bookworm21]

I believe you can see your era from the 'Rumours' Screen

[fallen]

Netu - I just got it on my list to enable rumor hovers to have all the details. So that would help.

Not sure what you mean about Intimidating Command?

You cannot change ship component sizes.

I could see an option to super size the bottom log.

We're binding encounter options to keystrokes.

Check Rumors list for Eras.

Not sure what the lock suggestion is about?

[Netu]

Thanks for responding to each one of those! You definitely did not have to take the time to do that; I appreciate it very much.

Intimidating Command is something that has confused me for a bit, and I am willing to bet it is devastatingly simple, but I cannot find an explanation on the wiki, sadly. Here is a bounty hunter skill that references it: i.imgur.com/M93NFRN.png I hate that I cannot be clearer in how this confuses me, but the wording just...doesn't "explain" what an "Intimidating Command" is, or what that references. Does that help clear that up?

Yeah, that's fair about ship components; I figured that'd be the case, but just had to bring it up. The system works really well, and even just the 'Exact' tab addition in the upgrade shop has been an immense help.

Yeah, even just a scrollbar if that's possible? Or just a button to make it go up further, just to show a few more? Ever land in a place, do a bunch of stuff, then realize you failed a save you meant to check while flying here and wanted to make a note of it, but weren't sure if it was ship ops or navigation? Haha.

Encounter options to keystrokes?! You guys ROCK! That is such an eloquent and amazing solution! THANK YOU!

Found the eras on the rumors list. Thank you fallen and bookworm21! <3

Locking would be for whenever you want to "keep" a crew member in place while you sort and organize the rest of the list. I'm imagining a locked crew member or location would stay at the top of the list (much like officers do in some crew sorts) no matter what sort or filter option you select. This would be useful so that I could keep a crew member visible while I'm comparing "off jobs" and fighters against non-fighters, but only certain ones. Practically, it's best used in the traits menu, so I could be very specific and put that sort up against my spreadsheet for what abilities future crew members will need. All of this, however, is entirely unnecessary, I must admit, it was just a thought to better figure out who is doing what.

Thanks so much again! I really appreciate it. Have a fantastic day! It's Saturday, try and relax. ;-)

[bookworm21]

Netu - Intimidating command just means its a debuff

[Netu]

May 5, 2018 10:41:25 GMT -5 bookworm21 said:

Netu - Intimidating command just means its a debuff

Wah?  ...So, a crippling attack is an attack that debuffs, and intimidating command is just a debuff with no attack, yeah?  That...makes perfect sense; I kind of figured this was the case, but I guess I was half-hopeful something special was happening.  

[fallen]

May 5, 2018 11:01:05 GMT -5 Netu said:

May 5, 2018 10:41:25 GMT -5 bookworm21 said:

Netu - Intimidating command just means its a debuff

Wah?  ...So, a crippling attack is an attack that debuffs, and intimidating command is just a debuff with no attack, yeah?  That...makes perfect sense; I kind of figured this was the case, but I guess I was half-hopeful something special was happening.  

That is 100% correct. Maybe we should remove the caps to make it clear its just flavor text.

[Netu]

May 5, 2018 11:21:03 GMT -5 fallen said:

May 5, 2018 11:01:05 GMT -5 Netu said:

Wah?  ...So, a crippling attack is an attack that debuffs, and intimidating command is just a debuff with no attack, yeah?  That...makes perfect sense; I kind of figured this was the case, but I guess I was half-hopeful something special was happening.  

That is 100% correct. Maybe we should remove the caps to make it clear its just flavor text.

Honestly, yes, that would be excellent.  Perhaps even add an article before it, so that it reads, "An intimidating command that..."  That would be absolutely clear to a moron such as myself, LOL.  Thanks for the responses and helping me with this, Andrew.  :-)

Edit:  Given keybindings for interacting with random encounters in space are on their way, will we be able to bind a key to the card game button (both to start the game and to retry)?

[fallen]

Netu - we're open to new keybindings always, so I've added that to the list.

[Netu]

May 5, 2018 15:24:27 GMT -5 fallen said:

Netu - we're open to new keybindings always, so I've added that to the list.

Thank you so much.  That will really help move things along!  :-)

[Netu]

Ship stuff today!  :-)

• During ship combat, it would be quite nice to be able to see the purge talents more readily. I am memorizing them, certainly, but when you have nearly two full rows of talent it becomes a wash. Two solutions I could think of: allow us to rearrange talents on the bars (for both players and ships?), or have an icon of some sort for the type of buff and debuff the talent does.  
• If the ship has successfully been defeated as of final boarding victory screen, we should not be able to waste our boarding abilities and have to go back through another round to watch the ship surrender and then back to another screen for victory. Does this make sense? Sorry if it's convoluted.  
• The bars beneath the ships in ship combat should have some labels explaining what they are; I have seen a few people be confused by them, thinking they are something else.
  
• I find it difficult to navigate the victory screen with a lot of things to do.  I strongly feel that the "stuff that is done" should be in an entirely separate screen beneath the actions you can take, or vice versa.
  
• On the victory screen, it would be nice if we could more readily see the faction/reputation changes as they are happening by the actions we are taking with the victory talents and actions.
  

[fallen]

Thanks for the feedback! Definitely going to keep improving in these areas, as you've pointed out a lot of it is info presentation.

[daveal]

May 6, 2018 10:50:22 GMT -5 Netu said:

Ship stuff today!  :-)

• During ship combat, it would be quite nice to be able to see the purge talents more readily. I am memorizing them, certainly, but when you have nearly two full rows of talent it becomes a wash. Two solutions I could think of: allow us to rearrange talents on the bars (for both players and ships?), or have an icon of some sort for the type of buff and debuff the talent does.

+++ ! The icons are very colorful but not thematic.  Can you choose one background color, or color family for each type of icon?  I suppose they must be sorted in some order, but I wind up having to mouse-hover each one to find the one I want.  I've only memorized a couple of the ones I use all the time like the escape and dodge ones.

[Netu]

May 6, 2018 16:15:06 GMT -5 fallen said:

Thanks for the feedback! Definitely going to keep improving in these areas, as you've pointed out a lot of it is info presentation.

I don't expect a single thing from you guys, but you do so well with concatenating ideas from one to the next, only to create something spectacular.  Therefore, I simply maintain that stream of consciousness in hopes that it is helpful, in some way, because I can "imagine" what things could be like, but you are the pros, so I leave it to you to know what things should be like.

[Netu]

It has been brought up a couple of times that the assist modules on ships lead players to think they just add extra stats as a crew member does. "Boost ship skill pool" does make sense, but it's not getting the point across, for whatever reason. Perhaps "Raises Skill Cap" or something?