From the beginning, I was looking forward to all the beauty of star trek online. Specifically, "a clean screen". From day one, i've always felt like the hud was cluttering my screen. It took me months to realize that I could toggle the hud completely off. "What a relief..." Except that no hud means little to no interface and no means of useful information. So it became a choice between Beautiful star trek while flying blind and no way to effect anything, or just plane clutter. You can move the hud around, but it's still the same clutter. Sure, the interface scale allows you to resize the hud and I'd keep it at 50 or smaller if I could, but then since everything is "reading" you have to be able to see the text. I can't comfortably read the fonts at 50. Sometimes 65 is good enough, but not really. I"m not sure how best to fix this, but maybe if we had more control over our text sizes separate from our interface scale perhaps that would be a good start.
It would be nice if the interface was a bit more customizable than it is now. What I usually do is turn off the HUD when I've set a course to warp somewhere. That way, with Astrometrics off, it looks very Trek-like during travel. When my ship comes to a stop I bring the HUD back up.
As for changing the size of your font independent of the UI Scale, it's possible Right click on your Chat box and goto Options. There is a sliding scale for Font size.
Thanks for your input. I do use the toggle for turning off the hud. Though, I feel like I'm always forced to turn it back on too often. As for any "Chat box sliding scale for Font size", I think I tried that a long time ago. It only seems to effect the "chat window", but not the interactive info window without which nothing gets done. I just can't see it well enough without having to resize the interface.
yet if i could change it, it's hard to say what i would hide or how i would want it to look like.
in the end everything has it's functionality and is there for a reason
...only that ugly circle and darkening of the screen while aiming in shooter mode has no use at all and can be removed.
the XP bar can be deactivated when you reach cap, it has no funcionality from that point on anyway,
i suggested that a few months back and the Dev who worked on it added the hide/show buttons to it.
so thats one UI element down.
the chat box can be made transparent, which is much less intrusive, also the text can fade out after 60 seconds, thats good to clean up the screen a bit.
I guess the names of the BOffs in the BOff Power bar could be removed to save a few pixels
and under the Power Levels there is a field that says "Power Levels", which everybody pushes out of the screen, that should just be removed in case someone does not want it on the bottom.
the green fly by notification text is sometimes annoying (need or greed is the worst!) and will get a lot worse with the DOff system coming up...
a hide button for that would not be the worst idea...
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As for changing the size of your font independent of the UI Scale, it's possible Right click on your Chat box and goto Options. There is a sliding scale for Font size.
Really, I appreciate your input.
yet if i could change it, it's hard to say what i would hide or how i would want it to look like.
in the end everything has it's functionality and is there for a reason
...only that ugly circle and darkening of the screen while aiming in shooter mode has no use at all and can be removed.
the XP bar can be deactivated when you reach cap, it has no funcionality from that point on anyway,
i suggested that a few months back and the Dev who worked on it added the hide/show buttons to it.
so thats one UI element down.
the chat box can be made transparent, which is much less intrusive, also the text can fade out after 60 seconds, thats good to clean up the screen a bit.
I guess the names of the BOffs in the BOff Power bar could be removed to save a few pixels
and under the Power Levels there is a field that says "Power Levels", which everybody pushes out of the screen, that should just be removed in case someone does not want it on the bottom.
the green fly by notification text is sometimes annoying (need or greed is the worst!) and will get a lot worse with the DOff system coming up...
a hide button for that would not be the worst idea...
oh and did i mention a bigger and brighter mouse cursor would be a veeeery good idea?