Feedback on the new UI » Forum Post by DeftMunky

You still cannot buy back your own shares on the new UI, as far as I can tell.

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Beta 7 feedback:

When shift clicking to auto send launches it's very glitchy Tried multiple times to cancel launches that were shift clicked by right clicking. Sometimes it would cancel it and it would just randomly reappear again. Sometimes it would suddenly disappear and then queue a launch in a resource I didn't ask it to. Sometimes it would queue 2 in a resource i didn't ask it to. I could never cancel all launches if i wanted to stop shipping offworld. One would always reappear no matter what i did.

Also i've never had any performance issues before but beta 7 was incredibly laggy every time i built a new building or someone expanded. Almost unplayably laggy.

If majority buyout is the default in beta 7 (which i think it is but i'm not sure) then i owned 6 shares in a company and it did not award me possession. I had to completely buy them out. At one point I saw the red button to buy the 6th share and it just made me buy a regular share when i clicked it. After that i never got control until I bought out everyone else's shares.

I like the new pointer for placing black market items with one exception. It's incredibly useful for everything except for placing pirates. Please bring back the old "shadow ring" or something like that for pirates so you can see where they are going to be placed. Since this map is somewhat 3D it's difficult to see if you placed pirates in the path of the right resource. It's particularly difficult if someone is shipping 2 resources side by side and you want to try and pick off only one of them.

Also it can be a little harder to short or surplus power because the special buildings tabs at the top can overlap it.

Something I mentioned earlier but figured I'd repeat again. It would be nice to have a little countdown timer at the top to see how long it is until your offworld launches. That way you can make critical decisions as to whether to scrap the launch or not if you're in danger of being bought out.

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In B7 when an offworld is destroyed it only gives you a button that says "repair offworld." It no longer tells you what/how many resources are required or how much it will cost to repair it. Sometimes it's not advantageous to repair an offworld immediately based on prices or imminent buyout. Would be nice to see this get fixed quickly as it is important information to know.

Also there's still a persistent bug which won't let you cancel offworld shipments. When you cancel the shipment it respawns automatically.

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Alright, sorry for the long delay, but

NEW VERSION IS UP

Please go through and give your feedback on things that are broken and things that are bugging the crud out of you. We're looking to release in the next few weeks, so our ability to fix things will be limited, but I want to make sure that we catch any major things before we make this the next version.

Thank you all for your amazing feedback. You are helping us make the game great and we couldn't do it without your help.

-Scott-

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Can't resume back to game from the ingame menu via ESC

When I minimize an auction, it gets maximized for every bid again.

Bug when hiding buildings around buildings that are protected by goon squad

Can't center on an event on the new notification popups in the top-right
Centering on an event is very helpful but it seems it can only be done in the text notifications to the bottom-right, the shiny new popup notifications that slide-in in the top-right stock overview window don't center to the event when clicked on

This bulge on the UI feels like it serves no purpose and I feel it steals valuable screen space from me

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Quoting FarCube,

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Can't resume back to game from the ingame menu via ESC

Added to list. Will try to get into the patch.

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When I minimize an auction, it gets maximized for every bid again.

I checked in a fix for this yesterday, so it should be resolved in the next version.

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Bug when hiding buildings around buildings that are protected by goon squad

Will look into this. Should be easy to fix.

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Can't center on an event on the new notification popups in the top-right
Centering on an event is very helpful but it seems it can only be done in the text notifications to the bottom-right, the shiny new popup notifications that slide-in in the top-right stock overview window don't center to the event when clicked on

Added to list. This won't be in the patch, but will be in beta 8.

Quoting FarCube,

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This bulge on the UI feels like it serves no purpose and I feel it steals valuable screen space from me

Will let Jim know.

Thanks for all the feedback! This is great.

-Scott-

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Thanks for your encouragement, feel free whenever to point out when my feedback is going off-topic. Here are some additional things that might be of interest. While on 0.7.9223 I found:

Missing popup for "spawnprotected" resources while in claim-mode
When you hover over a resource that is "spawn-protected" by a player recently dropping his HQ next to it, while in "build-mode" (trying to place a structure on it), a popup appears that shows the remaining time of the spawnprotection, if you enter "claim-mode" however the popup does not appear and requires you to exit claim-mode again to check how much time is remaining before you can claim it.

BUG: Slide-notifications get stuck when you enter the ingame-menu while they are shown
This took me a while to figure out but every slide-notification gets stuck when you (at least via ESC) enter the ingame menu while they are shown, when you resume from it, the notification will do a small slide-in animation again and then remain there forever. - New notifications will not appear and replace it.

BUG: The player stock-window can overlap text notifications in team games

Missing popup when constructing buildings
When you construct a building a build-icon at the top appears visually-indicating its progress, I'd like to have a popup when hovering over it that tells me how much time the construction takes to complete.

Missing hotkey for toggling building power
I'm not sure if this fits here but I wanted to squeeze it in somewhere, there's a hotkey for selling a building but not for toggling its power off and on. I'm missing it badly.

Missing hotkey and popup for PING
PING seems to be a new feature for team-modes where you can ping specific tiles and show them to your teammates, both a hotkey and a popup when hovering the PING-button are missing. Hotkey I'd find especially useful.

Small things

Missing popups for your debt-count, bank-count and claim-tile-button.
There are no popups for hovering over your debt, your bank and "claim tile" that show details, or in the case of "claim tile" explain what "claiming a tile" means, like there were in the old UI.

Change the duration-format of black-market effects like Goon squad or EMPs by splitting them into higher time-units then merely seconds, i.e. 190s -> 3m10s
I am not sure how popular this would be, but I personally think i'd prefer to see e.g. a Mutiny lasting 3m10s instead of 190s. I'm well aware that there are downsides to this (e.g. requiring a bigger text-length), but I wanted to make sure the consideration is out there. Maybe it would even be worth an ingame option.

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I've edited my last post repeatedly and found the reason for why the slide-notifications are getting stuck, please take note of that if you haven't already.

Further let me add these two points just to make sure:

Small things

Ingame ESC Menu has a black background and dragging the mouse while holding down the leftmousekey starting from a button pans the camera ingame, instead of holding the button down.

Missing ingame setting option in the ingame ESC Menu.
Being able to set audio levels I miss especially

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Allow me to reference blackmagic1's separate thread about the new UI here:
https://forums.offworldgame.com/472684/page/1/

and further note that I heavily agree on 7.
(That the text-notifications in the chat window are much harder to read than in the old UI.)

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Quoting FarCube,

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Missing popup for "spawnprotected" resources while in claim-mode

This should be fixed in beta 7.

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BUG: Slide-notifications get stuck when you enter the ingame-menu while they are shown

This was a great find. Got the fix in beta 7. (Not a great fix, but it won't be stuck.)

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BUG: The player stock-window can overlap text notifications in team games

This will be fixed in beta 8.

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Missing popup when constructing buildings

I didn't fix this yet. I forgot what it was.

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Missing hotkey for toggling building power

I think control + click toggles power. Does that work for you?

Quoting FarCube,

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Missing hotkey and popup for PING

This will be fixed in beta 8.

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Missing popups for your debt-count, bank-count and claim-tile-button.

This should be fixed in beta 7.

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Change the duration-format of black-market effects like Goon squad or EMPs by splitting them into higher time-units then merely seconds, i.e. 190s -> 3m10s

I'll talk to Soren about this.

Thank you so much for all this. This has been a huge hit.

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Quoting FarCube,

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Ingame ESC Menu has a black background and dragging the mouse while holding down the leftmousekey starting from a button pans the camera ingame, instead of holding the button down.

This is annoying, but won't be fixed until beta 8.

Quoting FarCube,

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Missing ingame setting option in the ingame ESC Menu.

This will be in beta 8.

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Quoting FarCube,

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Allow me to reference blackmagic1's separate thread about the new UI here:
https://forums.offworldgame.com/472684/page/1/

and further note that I heavily agree on 7.
(That the text-notifications in the chat window are much harder to read than in the old UI.)

I will try to address some of these tomorrow. We'll see what happens.

-Scott-

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Control + Shift + Down "sell all resources" noise was missing when I was playing beta 7 last night.

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