as of the newest update, all rankings have lost their percentages (combat, trading, explo, cqc). These percentage values gave me a sense of actual progress and reward for my actions, and i know many others who feel the same way. Honestly when i saw the change in the newest update i didn't play the game for four or five days. I strived every day to see my combat rank go up at least 1%, and now it feels hopeless. Please, please bring them back
Bring back rank percentages!
- Thread starter Dmad88
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I was disappointed to see this change also but you can at least check your combat percentage in the look down menu (where you deploy the SRV from). Trade and exploration percentages though are unavailable so far as I can see. Hopefully they'll add a percentage display back in on the status page at some point.
I recommend using the Elite Dangerous companion INARA. You'll be able to follow your rank progression in the form of a percentage value. INARA is very useful. o7 CMDR
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Taking away in game methods to make you use external sources... :/
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Put it in the suggestions section so it can be ignored like all other Horizons suggestions in favour of content locked to Odyssey. At least we get to share the bugs lately
Thanks for that tip. I am only working on my combat rank now so that is a decent workaround. I still agree that this is a really stupid change and will be incredibly demotivating for those commanders who haven't achieved Elite in trade and exploration yet. What were you thinkinf FDev? Who signed off on this change?!
Probably nothing and nobody, respectively. Its probably a bug they arent aware of because they dont play their own game. These details are lost to them.
A UI change like that doesn't just happen - there will be requirements written and designs made for those reqs. Yes, Frontier are bad for bugs but this isn't one, it was a conscious change (for the worse).
Mate, it just reversed to an earlier state. We have bugs revived from years ago every single patch.
Awful awful concept, completely in agreement with the OP. FD should ask us if we want this, i for one don't, ridiculous idea to take away the percentages. Gave us a goal to strive towards. Now i'm chasing a line.... Lovely.
Speaking of features that actually work in Odyssey that at some point will arrive in Horizons, i wouldn't mind seeing the new Jump Drive sequence appear. That at least works and is actually an improvement.
Speaking of features that actually work in Odyssey that at some point will arrive in Horizons, i wouldn't mind seeing the new Jump Drive sequence appear. That at least works and is actually an improvement.
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I dont get it either.
We dont even have Odyssey on console but they give us a worse off feature nobody asked for or wanted.
I bet FD got the same negative feedback from PC players 8m ago.
Do Fdev even listen to feedback?
A Squadron member did say she uses Inara to check % if anyone needs to know.
We dont even have Odyssey on console but they give us a worse off feature nobody asked for or wanted.
I bet FD got the same negative feedback from PC players 8m ago.
Do Fdev even listen to feedback?
A Squadron member did say she uses Inara to check % if anyone needs to know.
Agreed. I made a similar comment when the update came out and I noticed this change.
Who would think this was a good idea? Removing the actual percentage and replacing it with a progress bar? I don't understand.
It's so easy to keep glancing at the percentage after kills to see when it moves up by 1%. But trying to look at the progress bar to determine if it's moved up a tiny bit after a kill is near impossible to notice.
Yes we can use Inara, or look down to see the Combat percentage, but why remove it in the first place? I don't know anyone that thinks these progress bars are an improvement over showing the percentages.
At the very least, give us the option to move our cursor to the left on that right-hand panel, so we can select the Combat, Exploration, Trade or CQC boxes. Let us select the box, opening that box so it's bigger, where it can show the percentage amount.
Console players are typically playing in a living room setting, so they may be playing on a couch with the TV on the opposite wall, 8-10+ feet away from them. My TV is about 10 feet away from me when I play, and I can no way see if that progress bar has moved up by 1%, even if I lean forward and stare at it. And I have perfect vision.
Please, put it back to percentages.
Who would think this was a good idea? Removing the actual percentage and replacing it with a progress bar? I don't understand.
It's so easy to keep glancing at the percentage after kills to see when it moves up by 1%. But trying to look at the progress bar to determine if it's moved up a tiny bit after a kill is near impossible to notice.
Yes we can use Inara, or look down to see the Combat percentage, but why remove it in the first place? I don't know anyone that thinks these progress bars are an improvement over showing the percentages.
At the very least, give us the option to move our cursor to the left on that right-hand panel, so we can select the Combat, Exploration, Trade or CQC boxes. Let us select the box, opening that box so it's bigger, where it can show the percentage amount.
Console players are typically playing in a living room setting, so they may be playing on a couch with the TV on the opposite wall, 8-10+ feet away from them. My TV is about 10 feet away from me when I play, and I can no way see if that progress bar has moved up by 1%, even if I lean forward and stare at it. And I have perfect vision.
Please, put it back to percentages.
Also the same screen that shows your rank progress, current credits, notoriety etc doesn’t update in real time like it used to. I mentioned it during the last update fiasco but it’s still bugged
