16 replies to this topic

[Void2258]

I just bought a skill I don't need to hit OK to confirm it.

I just exited the game I don't need to hit OK to confirm it.

I know it costs money to add armor.

I know it costs money to buy weapons.

I know I changed mechs.

I know you gave me an achievement that you just had a separate popup for.

ENOUGH WITH THE CONSTANT CONFIRMATION POPUPS!

Edited by Void2258, 08 January 2015 - 08:16 PM.

[Idealsuspect]

I know i canceled matchmaking search ^^

same for match type i guess 99 % of players only play public match well ty PGI for solve this and ty void for this topic lol

[Void2258]

The goal should always be minimal clicks for maximal results. That doesn't mean never have confirmations, especially when we are doing irreversible things. But they should be kept to an absolute minimum. They certainly aren't needed to tell us we did the thing we just did.

[Tesunie]

Void2258, on 08 January 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

I just bought a skill I don't need to hit OK to confirm it.

But you just accidentally bought that skill with GXP instead of MXP, are you sure you want to do that?

Void2258, on 08 January 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

I just exited the game I don't need to hit OK to confirm it.

What if you pressed the exit button by accident? (Though I understand you here, and agree on this one.)

Void2258, on 08 January 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

I know it costs money to add armor.
I know it costs money to buy weapons.

But what if that was a MC module you where placing on instead? (Need to treat any permanent alterations that cost you anything fairly equally.)
I accidentally spent money checking out an engine switch, didn't like it, switched back that engine to what I thought was the old engine, and ended up now not being able to buy X instead. Are you sure you want to buy that?

Void2258, on 08 January 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

I know I changed mechs.

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I don't recall any confirmation about "changing mechs"... Am I missing something here?

Void2258, on 08 January 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

I know you gave me an achievement that you just had a separate popup for.

I understand this one. (Then again, it might just be a piece of their coding that makes it "inform you and confirm" before it can give you the item. Just a possibility. (Also, before the edit to the January Roadmap, it stated that even PGI is disappointed in the UI2.0, and that they intended to take another look into it when CW is more stable. But it's been edited as of recent.)



Some confirmations are good, such as changes that can permanently effect your monetary (in game, real or even experience) values and/or permanently change a loadout. Others, such as exiting the game, launching a match, canceling MM and earning an achievement (among other such examples) can possibly be easily removed.

[Basskicker]

How about a toggle button to disable confirmations as it relates to cbill purchases at the very least. I feel like I spend more time clicking yes than I do outfitting the mech.

[Idealsuspect]

UI.2 is great, far far away from UI.1 it need only more shortcuts between tabs ( mechlabs and skills tree ) and less popups...

Basskicker, on 08 January 2015 - 10:28 PM, said:

How about a toggle button to disable confirmations as it relates to cbill purchases at the very least. I feel like I spend more time clicking yes than I do outfitting the mech.

+1000 best option everybody would be happy with this

Edited by Idealsuspect, 09 January 2015 - 06:38 AM.

[Tesunie]

Basskicker, on 08 January 2015 - 10:28 PM, said:

How about a toggle button to disable confirmations as it relates to cbill purchases at the very least. I feel like I spend more time clicking yes than I do outfitting the mech.

I could see this as a possibility. Don't know how easy it would be to implement and create though, but it would cut down on some of the confirmations.

I'd rather just see a few non-essential ones just removed, such as logging out, achievement, and canceling MM search. Those three are honestly not needed at all. (Achievement may be a confirmation to actually grant you said items, so it may have a coding purpose instead of an actual player confirmation purpose. Not sure here myself.)

[Lily from animove]

what annoys is that skills for each level get an independend confirmation they should be similar like in mechs be selected to level X and then confirmed in a single confimarion action.

Edited by Lily from animove, 14 January 2015 - 07:29 AM.

[RadioKies]

Void2258, on 08 January 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

I just exited the game I don't need to hit OK to confirm it.

I always press alt+F4 from the mechbay to quit the game, sometimes the OK button is there, sometimes it isn't.

With the OK button I'm refering to the Windows crash report screen I get 30% of the time when ALT+F4ing.

If PGI would remove the confirmations after you've done something it would be a nice improvement. If they would make the mechcomponents selectable to jump to that component when editing the mech UI2.0 would get more of the good stuff that 1.0 offered.

[B L O O D W I T C H]

also, while watching the loadout of any purchasable mech, i get thrown back to owned mechs every time. stupidly downer.

[EvilCow]

Press OK to continue the thread.

[o0Marduk0o]

Just be patient, with UI 2.5 you have to confirm your confirmation.

[Grendel408]

I hate how clicky the UI2.0 is... I'm patiently waiting for the UI2.5 improvement promised.

I mean, how many times can a program ask me if I am sure about a button selection I made...

It's like we should have protectors on electrical outlets in the walls to prevent ourselves from sticking a fork in it, with a prompt to ask if we're sure we want to stick the fork in or not.

Edited by Grendel408, 12 January 2015 - 04:25 PM.

[CarnageINC]

Void2258, on 08 January 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

I just bought a skill I don't need to hit OK to confirm it.

I just exited the game I don't need to hit OK to confirm it.

I know it costs money to add armor.

I know it costs money to buy weapons.

I know I changed mechs.

I know you gave me an achievement that you just had a separate popup for.

ENOUGH WITH THE CONSTANT CONFIRMATION POPUPS!

I feel your pain, literally, my right index finger goes into spasms with PGI's wonderfully thought out UI. So when I have to make a point at PGI I can't use that finger to poke it at them, I have to use 'another' finger to get my point across.

[Av4tar]

Optional would be nice.

[Wingm3n]

Couldnt agree more! Confirming that I want to confirm the confirmation is driving me nuts! Only one place where this is actually useful is when you buy a mech. The game by default (I wonder why...) will use MC instead of Cbills.

[Idealsuspect]

LOADED, on 12 January 2015 - 03:37 AM, said:

also, while watching the loadout of any purchasable mech, i get thrown back to owned mechs every time. stupidly downer.

TRUE TRUE TRUE !! Plz fix this