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darlexa
Member Posts: 222 Arc User
I respectfully request that the new interface for doing duty officer assignments be revisited.
while the automatic feature on assignment officers to the prospective assignment is great, the ability to do it manually has been completely deleted.
its making me want to scream since I can't choose officers based on what I know I will need for other assignments.
further, when you do go to choose an officer, there is no ability to filter the list. its impossible to sort by job or abilities.
I have 500 duty officers, this is a major issue.
the interface window is now MASSIVE. I am not blind, please shrink everything in the interface window.
currently, I would rather go back to the old system. the cost of having a working automatic assignment feature is not worth the rest of this.
while the automatic feature on assignment officers to the prospective assignment is great, the ability to do it manually has been completely deleted.
its making me want to scream since I can't choose officers based on what I know I will need for other assignments.
further, when you do go to choose an officer, there is no ability to filter the list. its impossible to sort by job or abilities.
I have 500 duty officers, this is a major issue.
the interface window is now MASSIVE. I am not blind, please shrink everything in the interface window.
currently, I would rather go back to the old system. the cost of having a working automatic assignment feature is not worth the rest of this.
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I also take exception to having 18 R&D DOFFs foisted on us. DOFFs who can't do most DOFF missions. I no longer have 300 DOFF slots, I have 282. Imagine what it must be like for those who haven't bought additional DOFF slots. Losing 18% of their DOFF slots would be devastating.
Assigning DOFFs
When you open a DOFF assignment and select a doff for a slot to be filled for that assignment, it always shows all DOFFs not otherwise unavaialble, including DOFFs that you have already used for other slots of this assignment. That always leads to errors, especially for assignments which require many slots.
This is also a problem with the new quick-equip feature. Already equipped gear should be highlighted (or better "lowlighted") with a different color.
The name of the location is not always readable at glance, especially if the names all start with I.K.S. or U.S.S. And it really seems superflous list gear that is already installed on the ship at the top of the list.
Make Auto-Selection Strategy for DOFFs switcheable
Let us choose how we want to select or order our DOFFs. It would be nice if we could choose between 2 potential strategies:
- Minimize Failures (e.g. DOFFs are selected/ordered that yield the highest Success + Critical Success chance)
- Optimize Critical Succe (e.g. DOFFs are selected/ordered that yield the highest Critical Success chance, even at the expense of an increase failure rate).
If you don't have this option,the system will always be problematic for some players, and I think optimizing for critical success alone is the least helpful for new players that don't want to fine-tune DOFF assignment results, since it often increases the failure rates.
but with this update, it made it hard on the eyes to read. What they should have done is keep it
the way it was and instead make a separate tab that was not connected to Doffing but to
different officers, called crafting officers or do what was done in SWTOR and send some of your
crew to do the crafting. Just my thoughts. Really have had a hard time figuring out the interface,
I have figured it out for now, but I would like the old DOFF system to be brought back.
Please Cryptic, make it happen for me as well as other players.
I also noticed the two reward and requirement boxes are the same size, when at times there is more reward or requirements to display, causing a super tiny horizontal scroll bar to appear, when there is more then enough space to have all information shown horizontally. The window will scale horizontally to a point, then all the information inside just stops and we are left with just dead screen space inside the window.
Critical Success text is smaller then the other % text of the other probabilities, I'm getting old and have to squint to read it, please make it the same size of the other % numbers.
Auto population of assignments does not always load the proper duty officer. I see that it tries to always load the best Critical Success, but sometimes at the determent of higher failure rate.
Also the traits don't seem to work as they did before, as I had a Purple random officer with 2 traits give a higher CritS % then a Blue officer with 3 of the CritS traits & was the proper doff for the mission (ie maintenance engineer). How does being the correct officer for the job & have more CritS traits, then some random purple with only 2 matching traits, give me a lower CritS % ?
Screen space is already limited, who thought it was a good idea to add a pop-out window in the mix should be re-evaluated as a GUI designer. Keep things tidy, reduce mouse travel to a minimum, keep it in one window with no child windows.
Not having all the requirements for the assignment will show red, however, when clicking the replicator to get said requirements, the mission will still say I do not have them unless I totally back out of the assignment, sometimes even having to click a different left column choice to enable it to see I now have all the requirements.
The last accessed Department Head used to stay on the left side column, but now as the whole department head tab has been moved there, it no longer will display the last or current department head category. Why not just separate department heads into their own left side column selection, we have the space, and it would be less clicking and mouse travel.
Still get the same 5+ second lag when starting an assignment as before.
Duty officers already in the assignment will still appear as usable in the pop-out window.
That's all I can think of at the moment. Other then some assignments not even starting even though I have all requirements, but that's in a different thread.
Please revisit and revise. It shouldn't take that much effort to provide the ability to sort.
I'd rather the old assignment interface come back. This one is just... unusable.
Problem is: the default behavior sucks.
The old system, where you checked a single variable and it narrowed your results accordingly was far superior to this mess where, to view only doffs of a single Specialization, you have to uncheck 50 other boxes (I counted, it even includes Specializations that you have zero Doffs on hand for, which is something the old filters wisely did not waste our time with.)
However, that should be relatively simple to fix.
The default filter behavior should be "All Boxes Start Unchecked". Failing that, give us a "Reset Filters" button (y'know, like the one that is STILL in the Roster filters) or a Check/Uncheck All toggle.
(While I'm complaining, I'll note that this is the same issue that has plagued the Rewards filter on the PvE queue
I agree with prior comments that the size of certain elements is now too large and clumsy. Big graphics and expansive layouts may get the newbs on board but if you want players queueing hundreds and thousands of assignments, the UI design focus needs to be faster and greater information density.
By rewards descriptions, I mean stuff like those 2-hour buffs. We now need to select an assignment and scroll the description down to see what the buffs are.
As for assignment success percentage, I prefer the pie chart over the bar chart that is currently implemented. Yes it shows the percentage of success, critical, disaster, failure, etc. but the pie chart is much easier to judge whether or not it is worth the risk to go ahead with the assignment. With the bar chart, it is harder to do so.
Choosing a bar graph or a pie chart is a personal preference. While I'm certain that you have a preference, the developer obviously did not share it and instead chose their preference. In this instance, they preferred the bar chart. Hardly worth venting over just because of a difference of opinion and preference. Perhaps, in your personal life you will choose a pie chart. In the business world, you should be able to adapt to a multitude of chart types. This is not a troll but, rather, a overview that other preferences are out there.