Enhancement Ideas for Overlay

[aussig]

Some ideas for enhancements to the in-game overlay:

• Flash up information on overlay about CMDRs interacted with #174
• Warn user if the tick has passed but you haven't posted your activity
• Flash up information when BGS / TW activity logged, with summary and totals for that faction #130
• Ability to 'pin' a system's BGS activity to the overlay #168
• Thargoid War: Display war progress in overlay #111
• Information about current system / station when arriving (e.g. controlling faction for station for carto sales + trade)
• Warn user on overlay if they are in a CZ but have targeted a friendly ship #176

#68 will also include enhancements to the overlay

[WilliambWattKin]

I am not sure how DCOH generates their thargoid war progress % per system - but that progress bar, in psuedo-real time on the overlay would be super nice...

Super ultra nice if it pulsed briefly to show that it changed between the last state check.

Not like a war room TORPEDO INCOMING kinda pulse, but like a subtle little happy updoot pulse.

Nothing like a little positive feedback bar graph for micro-seratonine encouragement injections as it grows as folks do the thing.

[aussig]

I am not sure how DCOH generates their thargoid war progress % per system - but that progress bar, in psuedo-real time on the overlay would be super nice...

A good suggestion. DCoH provide an API for fetching this information and I think it would be a very popular feature to see this displayed on-screen. It would only show if the user was choosing to report TW activity of course.

As for pulse animations etc, the overlay BGS-Tally uses is quite limited in what it can display, but I'll take a look at what could be done.