Hover Information Idea for mobile

[MintDragon]

I've been thinking thorough playing the alpha at this point on both desktop and mobile, and how important (to game flow, decision making) the ability to hover is.  On desktops I can quickly 'scan' for things like where a nearby farming or industrial planet is, because I have goods I have to unload, for example... 

I know we've discussed, and are all looking forward to the ability to 'press and hold' to bring forth the hover information, but had a thought last night.  If there were an 'info' button (on the quadrant map for example), pressing this button would display all the 'hover' bubbles on the screen. Zoomed in on a group of planets, we could see all the hover information, and move/finger swipe around the map to get the hover information for the planets we are interested in looking.  Of course zooming out could be messy, but tapping the info button would turn all the extra info off.

I suppose that this 'info' button could be used similarly between turns of ship battles and crew battles too.


Just some more thoughts.  

[Cory Trese]

Hahaha ... you are playing this game just the right amount, my friend.

Last night about 2am fallen and I have the exact same conversation. Like literally, used a lot of the same words.

Talked about zoom, some ways we could address it in the drawing layer.

Welcome to the team

[grävling]

I'd like it if when I looked at the MAP -- blue icon top right, between STATS and ORBIT It just gave me a map with the names of things labelled right on top of where they are.

[En1gma]

Then a way to chart a course on top of that, like a destination queue? Can't say how valuable they would be for a merchant/explorer/smuggler...

[grävling]

Indeed, despite being called waypoints, they are single destinations only.

[athios]

I was just going to suggest this as well. Would be great if the bubbles don't shrink (at the same rate; still legible) when you zoom out. Also, I assume there will be different bubble icons for different types of settlements?

[fallen]

Feb 14, 2017 14:40:26 GMT -5 athios said:

I was just going to suggest this as well. Would be great if the bubbles don't shrink (at the same rate; still legible) when you zoom out. Also, I assume there will be different bubble icons for different types of settlements?

Testing that a bit here.

[Officer Genious]

Yesh!! I want to see different icons for the cities too. I hate crossing the galaxy to a promising planet to find yet another orbital station. :/