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griceneil
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Thoughts welcome from STO Devs and fellow players.
What do you think to a more customisable power tray. I currently have the power tray on setting number 4, which gives you 3 rows.
I know you get bridge powers on top, however with so many powers you can add to the tray these days, I still find it a challenge to group them together how I like.
I was wondering if the devs at sto could make this customisable where perhaps you could specify/ expand/grow the power tray accordingly to your desired number of cells for your screen resolution.
Anyway thoughts welcome. Thankyou all
What do you think to a more customisable power tray. I currently have the power tray on setting number 4, which gives you 3 rows.
I know you get bridge powers on top, however with so many powers you can add to the tray these days, I still find it a challenge to group them together how I like.
I was wondering if the devs at sto could make this customisable where perhaps you could specify/ expand/grow the power tray accordingly to your desired number of cells for your screen resolution.
Anyway thoughts welcome. Thankyou all
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I use tray option #3 + the vertical bar, but if I had the option for a bit of customization, I think I would use it..
If the second tray could be set to horizontal like the main tray, so I could put them side-by-side and watch them both at once, there would be more than enough for everything.
(edit) and be able to adjust the "font" size of them because on a 32" monitor my hot bars are flipping Giamongnormous
OMG this, a million times THIS. The functionality for moving UI elements around in this game is fantastic, but the lack of customizability of the hotbar is really godawful.
The gold standard for me in terms of MMO UI customizability will always be EverQuest 2. Each hotbar row of 12 could be independently positioned, resized, and configured to your exact needs. This is an old pic of what my hotbar layout looked like before I retired from raiding:
http://ayashi.net/foo/newui-200712.png
Top core row was DPS rotation. Alt-row was heals, Ctrl-row for buffs and secondary combat abilities, and the fourth core row at the bottom was rezzes and other important abilities not in the above categories.
The three hotbars to either side were rearranged into a 2x6 grid of smaller icons, and these were used for consumable items, maintained buffs that only needed to be recast after being rezzed, and lesser-used out-of-combat abilities like opening portals.
And that was -eight years ago-. You can imagine how frustrating I find the limitations of the hotbar as it currently exists in STO, especially now that I'm getting into the endgame and earning a lot more abilities that no longer fit on three hotbars.
It doesn't help that the BOFF hotbar takes up a lot of space and is very difficult to cleanly organize once you have more than three officers.
I would love it if each hotbar row could be opened as a separate window, and that their grid could be resized the same way you can with the bank/inventory windows.
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That looks very nice!
We could also use some more state shift key-binds (ctrl, alt and shift only get us so far)
It would be really nice to sort powers on cooldown duration and shared cooldowns.
I position the longer ones towards the end of the bar (as you hardly use them).
ctrl, alt and shift 1,2,3,4,5 are the main keys I press.
I also map c to some utility power like gravwell or launch fighters.
Some items like batteries, shields and such are mapped so weirdly that I hardly use them efficiently.
Perhaps it would be nice to have the option to turn shield face controls to a toggle instead of a temporary skill. That's the primary thing we all use tac team for ;-)
Having customizable blob trays would be awesome!