Moving Interaction Buttons

kitchery

I suggest that the 'buttons' for doing actions like picking up items or interacting with objects need to stop jumping around the screen. The new synth TFO has given me a great example for this casing me frustration.
I had dealt with some of the synths, I moved in to start transferring people to one of the ships, which required me to click on the button on the right. Just before I clicked on it, it moved to the center. I then went to click on the center, and I got attacked again, which moved the button back to the right.
I have also had issues where I mean to go pick up people, or transfer people to a ship, and suddenly it changes to another option, because something new just popped up. Which causes me to miss-click an option, and suddenly I don't have enough resources to finish what I wanted.

snowwolf

You can just hit the F key (default keybind) on your keyboard instead, that's the default button to trigger things. So then you don't need to click on the button that sometimes pops up in the middle of your screen, or moves over to the side.

In another scenario, doesn't work well when moving.. But works with stationary items like consoles, beacons etc.. You can just double click on the item itself instead to trigger it.

kitchery

snowwolf#0563 wrote: »

You can just hit the F key (default keybind) on your keyboard instead, that's the default button to trigger things. So then you don't need to click on the button that sometimes pops up in the middle of your screen, or moves over to the side.

In another scenario, doesn't work well when moving.. But works with stationary items like consoles, beacons etc.. You can just double click on the item itself instead to trigger it.

F key works well when there's only one option to choose from. On a normal mission when you're just picking up loot it works well, but when there's all these objects and options, things start to break down.

lordmerc22

You can hit F12 and move things around on screen - logically you want to move the interactions windows. Sure it wont solve the problem fully but it will make it less annoying. I personally move interaction window leftish and low priority interaction rightish

edit: If you wanted any dev to see this, they just wont. The general forum is more to exchange opinions with other players and/or ask advice etc. The best place to let devs know your feedback may be here:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/categories/controls-user-interface-and-the-sto-gateway

varethael

snowwolf#0563 wrote: »

You can just hit the F key (default keybind) on your keyboard instead, that's the default button to trigger things. So then you don't need to click on the button that sometimes pops up in the middle of your screen, or moves over to the side.

In another scenario, doesn't work well when moving.. But works with stationary items like consoles, beacons etc.. You can just double click on the item itself instead to trigger it.

What, what, what F key ?

Well F key is so awesome, that when you are in battle favor, and mission will end, miss-hiting it will case you to warp out of the location, and leave all drops behind... i done it few times already in this (duble-broken) event due to (as OP said) jumping pop-ups.


About OP problem, well... sadly you can only endure... this is Cryptic after all.