Last year CCP Games made a few significant changes on the look and feel of the sensor overlay panel, today CCP Paradox gives further insight of upcoming tweaks.
Greetings Capsuleers!
We have made some small changes to the Sensor Overlay for the next scheduled release (EVE 13.04) which is available to test on Singularity today.
The feedback we took from our last release was collected up, and we have made some changes to the following:
We have toned down the sensor sweep that appears in the game, and shortened the time that it is active from 12 seconds to 8 seconds. Further scans in the same system will no longer show the sweep in scene, but just on the compass instead.
Instead of the “Hide/Show” option before, it is now changed to be On/Off. Setting this to off will always disable the sky-box sweeps that appear on undocking or jumping systems.
Additionally when turned off, the compass will become much more transparent as to not be in your way.
The brackets for locations (anomalies, signatures etc.) have been made smaller and lightweight. They still use the same color scheme.
A newer settings menu should allow for easier connection with the icons in the skybox. We have also added the tooltip shortcut (Did you know: Control+O by default toggles the overlay on and off?). The hide/show eye icon is now a toggleable switch for On/Off and is much easier to see and use.
Feedback on the changes above is welcome, as is further feedback on the sensor overlay in general. Thank you for trying it out on Singularity!
The icons in the settings tooltip are not toggleable at the moment like the rest of the text is, this is a defect and will be fixed shortly.
