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Shrugger

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More informative refit screen
« on: November 10, 2017, 12:50:03 AM »
The refit screen is there to let us refit our ships. It does that job. But to know what you actually want to do with a a given ship, you first need to head over to the fleet screen and read up on it there.

Could we have access to ship stats and ship information in general on the refit screen?
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Histidine

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Re: More informative refit screen
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2017, 03:21:18 AM »
Mousing over the OP bar shows a partial stats card, but this is non-obvious and lacks some information.

Having the [?] codex tooltip/button (as seen on fleet screen) somewhere is the most obvious approach that comes to my mind.
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Sy

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Re: More informative refit screen
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2017, 05:05:30 AM »
agreed. took me years to realize the info is accessible there at all, since it's not mentioned anywhere, and most other loadout screen UI elements don't have tooltips (unlike many elements in the campaign view or fleet screen). that tooltip also doesn't show the ship system, which can be an important consideration in how to outfit a ship, for someone who's not entirely familiar with the ship in question.
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AxleMC131

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Re: More informative refit screen
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2017, 01:24:52 PM »
Also agreed, mostly with Sy's points. There should be a more obvious hover-over that brings up the same Codex Entry for ships you get when mousing over them in the pre-combat fleet screen, perhaps. And Ship System is indeed a very important factor in how you outfit many ships.
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