Add a 'Hops remaining' button to the HUD

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:12 pm

Make it possible for you to see how many hops you have left without having to access your galaxy map, or add it to the F10 view.

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:22 pm

Ahh good idea, easy and innovative too

Nightmare

K3MP · Post by **K3MP** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:29 pm

since toonces has a love for /slash commands lets make it
/hop /hops

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:30 am

Post by **Toonces** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:40 am

where is this info supposed to appear?

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:03 am

fireblade211 · Post by **fireblade211** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:30 pm

if it will only appear on that minimap part, then i choose no, it has no need, i rather be alert on the real minimap incase some noob decided to launch a attack at you, i choose top right kind of.. that empty spot.. but yet i kinda dont like it

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:22 pm

If you don't use the F10 view then it shouldn't bother you one way or another. I just think it'd be an easy addition to the game, useful for travel. It'd also be nice if you could change course in the F10 view much like the in the Alt-G Galaxy Map screen, but if thats too complicated then just focus on the hops remaining, thats all thats really needed.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:11 am

i absolutly love this idea, and as for placement, put it right above the mini-map and just to the left of the minimap buttons (basically directly above where rojo has it) - it's not overly in the way as there's already buttons there.
If you have no set course, it could either read "Hops Remaining: 0" or simply disappear from the screen while no trip is selected
-- OR --
If you have a system highlighted in your galaxy-map, but you are not actually in progress of the trip, the trips remaining could be written in red, and then change to yellow (or green) once you have /go or /goto (or "go to" on galaxy map).

sorry for the thumbnail - i never use imageshack - and ignore my crappy paint skills....

EDIT - photobucket image added because people have issues opening/closing windows apparently....

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:55 am

Nomad wrote:i absolutly love this idea, and as for placement, put it right above the mini-map and just to the left of the minimap buttons (basically directly above where rojo has it) - it's not overly in the way as there's already buttons there.
If you have no set course, it could either read "Hops Remaining: 0" or simply disappear from the screen while no trip is selected
-- OR --
If you have a system highlighted in your galaxy-map, but you are not actually in progress of the trip, the trips remaining could be written in red, and then change to yellow (or green) once you have /go or /goto (or "go to" on galaxy map).

sorry for the thumbnail - i never use imageshack - and ignore my crappy paint skills....

Yea I don't care where its put, it'd just be helpful. Thats a perfect spot Nomad.

Nimbus · Post by **Nimbus** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:35 am

I like it, good suggestion.

Turkey · Post by **Turkey** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:27 am

rojo wrote:It'd also be nice if you could change course in the F10 view

The autopilot button on the right of screen can be clicked on a system in the minimap which will set autopilot to it. The minimap can also be zoomed with the scroll wheel and scrolled by clicking and dragging, so it's pretty damn awesome already.

As for Hops Remaining, I'd vote for that! Either in the minimap or in that temporary line of text above the chat box.

fireblade211 · Post by **fireblade211** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:06 pm

took me 1 minutye to finaly exit that thumbnail.... get photobucket man!

Mr.Boombastic · Post by **Mr.Boombastic** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:50 am

I love the idea, and Nomad's placement of it. For those players who don't like it, why not add a feature in "Options" to turn it off?

Jiachi · Post by **Jiachi** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:19 pm

I'm for either/both placements for this, leaning towards Nomad's pick.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:17 am

fireblade211 wrote:took me 1 minutye to finaly exit that thumbnail.... get photobucket man!

now...how did it take you a minute to exit the thumbnail?? it pops up in a different window that has a "close" button on it...

and yea, an option to turn it off would be fine - could even put in a little minimization bar for the hops remaining and mini-map buttons - it could be a multi-stage minimization such as the chat window (minimized, normal, full) or the resource bay options (minimized, # and type, or big boxy layout) - this one could be 1)minimize all 2) only mini-map buttons 3) hops remaining and mini-map buttons (if i wasn't at work i'd photoshop my idea...but i am at work so i can't)

all in all, i still think this needs to be added in the next set of patches

fireblade211 · Post by **fireblade211** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:22 pm

imageshack is way to slow to upload and its a peice of crap, i clicked on it, it took 1 minute of white screen, so i exited it, the next day i tryed again and it took 30 seconds and it finaly uploaded, either u have a sucky way of savign them (bmp) or u need to learn to use the real image hoster, photobucket

_Starblade_ · Post by **_Starblade_** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:57 pm

Great idea! I thin Nomad's placement is better though

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:45 am

fireblade211 wrote:imageshack is way to slow to upload and its a peice of crap, i clicked on it, it took 1 minute of white screen, so i exited it, the next day i tryed again and it took 30 seconds and it finaly uploaded, either u have a sucky way of savign them (bmp) or u need to learn to use the real image hoster, photobucket

I <3 Imageshack and its toolbar

Jwilson6 · Post by **Jwilson6** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:11 am

rojo wrote:
fireblade211 wrote:imageshack is way to slow to upload and its a peice of crap, i clicked on it, it took 1 minute of white screen, so i exited it, the next day i tryed again and it took 30 seconds and it finaly uploaded, either u have a sucky way of savign them (bmp) or u need to learn to use the real image hoster, photobucket
I <3 Imageshack and its toolbar

theres some other one people have been using lately that really annoys me.... they just post a link, I click a new window comes up it takes a while to load, popup comes up in a new window about stupid smiley's or crap like that, i have to close popup so i can see the first window and a see its just a small picture so i have to click on it and it loads in a seperate window another picture that comes up fullsize but immediately upon loading it goes back down to small and i have to click again....

personally i dont mind imageshack (I use photobucket mainly because im too lazy to switch all my photos over, ive been using photobucket for several years) But unless u minimize the picture (which most people dont use) photobucket comes up in a huge picture and makes the forum screen wider for me and i have to constantly scroll over scroll back scroll over scroll back ... for every line, i dont know if this does it to anyone else but its extremely annoying, i would choose a popup over that anyday

wow that turned out a lot longer than i planned

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:31 am

Idk about photobucket but imageshack has a resize button to make w/e it is you want to upload 640 x 480, specifically for message boards. I didn't use it on my first post so the hops remaining display could be seen better, but I do use it when the situation permits it.

Post by **Toonces** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:16 pm

i'll see if i can add this

Luna · Post by **Luna** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:35 pm

This would be a useful addition. Thumbs up for Toonces.

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:12 am

Rojo = Satisfied

I'll try to keep an open mind on the arti's thing

NeatLogs · Post by **NeatLogs** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:37 am

One of the best ideas ever. Awesome job.

Shazi · Post by **Shazi** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:08 am

yay for responding! nice idea, and awesome how u can use autopilot button to goto a system.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:41 pm

Having this will be a great thing to add it will be helpfull to travelers if you add this it would be great

anami:globex · Post by **anami:globex** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:07 am

there...a nice little job for toonces...it must be rare a plesant constructive idea comes along...and when it does toonces tries to do it...

rojo · Post by **rojo** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:50 am

cheeser · Post by **cheeser** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:37 pm

niceee idea rojo

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