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Tab lock down (Patch 3.5)
Urz:
Off the top of my head:
1) Seeing someone join in chat and checking what ship they're on.
2) Seeing someone disconnect in chat and checking what ship they were on.
3) Seeing who is on what ships in general.
4) Noticing a missing ship in a combat engagement and checking if their captain disconnected.
5) Having a ship spotted (with it's name revealed) and checking what kind of ship it is.
6) Correlating part destruct logs with specific ships.
7) Checking is a ship has surrendered or not.
I'm also against click to focus on tab screen, since it would only reduce the frequency of unintentionally triggering and not actually solve it.
The Djinn:
--- Quote from: Watchmaker on February 05, 2014, 11:13:33 am ---Serious question, because understanding the use case is important: why do you guys feel the need to bring the scoreboard up so often in the middle of gameplay? Just what are you checking?
--- End quote ---
It's sort of a habit I use to remind myself who I'm flying against and, more importantly, what I'm flying against. I remember the information well, but it's very helpful to me to have that constant reminder available without breaking my game flow.
As the people above me have mentioned, checking destruction logs and ship names at a great distance is always important. I also like to be able to check if an ally says "Target the Pyramidion" before I'm in visual range so I can head towards the right spotted ship even if I can't see the ship itself.
Sammy B. T.:
This may portray me as oblivious, but sometimes I need it to know what team I am on or more specifically what team the color is the enemy. When a ship just won't spot, throwing up the tab and seeing what ships are on what side is nice.
I'd also like to mention that I have not yet been in a scenario where I strongly felt a need to mute someone in game that I hadn't already done in lobby. While I can understand it is easily conceivable to be in a scenario where it will happen, its not terribly common. Therefore this doesn't need to be the most streamlined action if it comes at the cost of another streamlined action
GeoRmr:
Your team colour is shown as a rectangle in the bottom right of your screen. I always forget it's there though =P
The Djinn:
--- Quote from: Sammy B. T. on February 05, 2014, 11:39:38 am ---This may portray me as oblivious, but sometimes I need it to know what team I am on or more specifically what team the color is the enemy. When a ship just won't spot, throwing up the tab and seeing what ships are on what side is nice.
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This is something I suspect we all do. I know if *I* ever forget I always hit Tab instead of checking the bottom corner: it lets me keep my attention focused on the center of the screen, which is where the majority of the important information is. I don't like having to drag my eyes away from the fight or the damage text area to check team color on the rare instance when I space out.
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