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Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Remember when they replaced the printed labels on things, with "international symbols", in cars?

Remember that Apple equipment is so intuitive you can't use it?

The UI in Live is like that, but worse.

How much worse? Ten points on my systolic and diastolic pressures worse. :(
 

Northpin

Northpin
Ralph Vargr said:
Remember when they replaced the printed labels on things, with "international symbols", in cars?

Remember that Apple equipment is so intuitive you can't use it?

The UI in Live is like that, but worse.

How much worse? Ten points on my systolic and diastolic pressures worse. :(
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I don't disagree here.
I really dont like the "modern" metro style UI with icons instead of labeled buttons, big tiled buttons and lots of screen estate wasted 🤷‍♂️
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
There is a You Tube channel run by a guy called Citation Guy. He flies a Cessna/Textron Citation jet aircraft (he owns it).

Excellent cockpit discipline, situational awareness, professionalism. Good videos. Kid knows his stuff.

Just one thing: Nowadays, the avionics are touchscreen glass cockpits. We had to do everything by hand, and do it by manually actuating controls without looking away from the primary flight instruments and the windshield.

He's managing the airplane by IPad, not flying it. If the power went...
 

vanFace

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GroG79 said:
What are you talking about?
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That modern UI design is crap in real-world situation, but due to fashion everybody builds it into products nevertheless. Which will bring doom to us all. Or so.

There is a little bit of truth in this, though. Haptic controls give better situational awareness (for humans), and this is key in intense scenarios like manually controlling vehicles in emergencies.
 

GroG79

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What (new) UI? It has been like that since EDO release
You sound like there is a conspiracy. 'Fashion' even :ROFLMAO:

Good luck with 'haptic' controls in a game
 

DrinkyBird

DrinkyBird
It’s fine, the old UI was crap, the new one is crap but in different ways. I’m just glad the stupid annoying pop up that appears whenever you hover over anything in a map and blocks everything behind it and can’t be closed is gone.
 

Northpin

Northpin
GroG79 said:
In that case: It takes 1-2 weeks to realize it is actually better...
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There are things that are better and things that are worse

I personally think the 3.8 interface was more ergonomic, offering more info for less clicks
Sure, for some that may mean Clutter. And trying to organize the clutter usually means a more compartmented/nested layout which mean less info for more clicks

I still hate the fact that in both galmap and sysmap the system/body information was split in two, requiring extra mouse movement and extra clicks.
Having the bookmarks organized/filtered can be a nice thing, but i still miss a global view for all my bookmarks
Having some big tiled buttons for bookmarks is a lot of screen estate wasted.
Same for Outfitting modules, having them filtered/categorized is a good thing - until you realize that you have no mean (except to browse through all categories) to find out if you have all your modules onboard your carrier or you have some forgotten in some stations.

So, yea - it could have been way nicer than 3.8, but it isnt.
 

GroG79

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You are neglecting to mention all the bad things about the 3.8 interface

Like how you can not click (and hold) a mission and the game plots you to the mission destination. How the UI now includes how much (and which) cargo you still need to deliver. etc etc

Bookmarks.. yep.. Was bad before.. Is still bad.
Outfitting is much better in the EDO UI! If you want to transfer all your modules to one destination (What? Three time per year?). Yes that is more easy in Horizon 3.8.
 
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