v1.8.0 Mobile Experience

Posted: 28 March 2017 02:12 AM Pallidyne - 27 March 2017 07:16 PM Ivanstone - 27 March 2017 05:02 PM I’m having a little bit of trouble understanding people’s issue with the map. I can actually pick missions on my phone. This used to be pretty troublesome. Now I can quickly scroll through each of the 9 episodes. I am having a little bit of trouble expanding the map to 100% even on my Ipad. Not that I have a real need for that. How in ever loving hell can you find the right mission to click on your phone? I don’t have the constellation memorized and I’m scrolling all over the place since I can’t zoom enough out to find where it is I want to go. I really really hope there is a public flogging of a developer for this. Arrow in the upper right corner. Clicking will cycle through the episodes. Unfortunately here is no back, only forward Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 06:18 AM South of Sulu - 28 March 2017 02:12 AM Pallidyne - 27 March 2017 07:16 PM Ivanstone - 27 March 2017 05:02 PM I’m having a little bit of trouble understanding people’s issue with the map. I can actually pick missions on my phone. This used to be pretty troublesome. Now I can quickly scroll through each of the 9 episodes. I am having a little bit of trouble expanding the map to 100% even on my Ipad. Not that I have a real need for that. How in ever loving hell can you find the right mission to click on your phone? I don’t have the constellation memorized and I’m scrolling all over the place since I can’t zoom enough out to find where it is I want to go. I really really hope there is a public flogging of a developer for this. Arrow in the upper right corner. Clicking will cycle through the episodes. Unfortunately here is no back, only forward And it has no logical order. 1 does not go to 2, nor to 3. In fact, 5 goes back to 1. Sooo yeah I gotta get click happy to use that option and bad tab order = bad UI. Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 07:06 AM South of Sulu - 28 March 2017 02:12 AM Pallidyne - 27 March 2017 07:16 PM Ivanstone - 27 March 2017 05:02 PM I’m having a little bit of trouble understanding people’s issue with the map. I can actually pick missions on my phone. This used to be pretty troublesome. Now I can quickly scroll through each of the 9 episodes. I am having a little bit of trouble expanding the map to 100% even on my Ipad. Not that I have a real need for that. How in ever loving hell can you find the right mission to click on your phone? I don’t have the constellation memorized and I’m scrolling all over the place since I can’t zoom enough out to find where it is I want to go. I really really hope there is a public flogging of a developer for this. Arrow in the upper right corner. Clicking will cycle through the episodes. Unfortunately here is no back, only forward And there appears to be no rhyme or reason to the sorting: 2 (Note, these first five don’t say “Episode” they just have the number)

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Distress Call: Delphic Expanse

Distress Call: Celestial Temple

Episode 3

Episode 6 Signature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler’s_fallacy “...people expect that a short run of random outcomes should share properties of a longer run, specifically in that deviations from average should balance out” Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 07:45 AM Has the “crew buyback” feature gone live? If so how does one use it? Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 07:47 AM It’s pretty evident now that DB does not do any testing with actual phones. They must be using emulators. I sent a screenshot to CS yesterday showing that the crew level is almost completely black when trying to apply trainers. They sent the same screen shot back and outlines the crew experience bar, on my computer I could see that the crew experience bar is there, still much darker, but still somewhat visible. Whereas on my phone it is completely opaque Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 08:00 AM das411 - 27 March 2017 05:27 PM Is there some sort of advantage or benefit to having LESS information now than we did before? If we’re kept in the dark we’re less likely to find issues? Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 10:14 AM [TLA] [DB DoBetter] Geo La Forge - 28 March 2017 12:46 AM Alpharius - 27 March 2017 05:02 PM This is pathetic. Yay for favouriting, but I was managing just fine with leaving items built/buildable.

Half the thrill of hitting the advance button was seeing how many items you cab already build. Who thought making us level the crew to see that info was a good idea?

Massive step back. +100 for this I loved being able to hit the advance button with the nervous anticipation of waiting to see if I was lucky enough to have some of the needed items or was able to build them. @DB is there a technical reason for this? Does it relate to lookups or is it just an aesthetic thing? If the latter, please revert back

This +1000!! The game feels uninspiring. Nothing to look forward to. For rng play, that’s fatal flaw.

Please change this back, because I can’t play the way it is now. It’s all work and zero fun. Even the colors are drab now. As close to deal breaker as ive ever felt. I am horrified by how anti-user friendly this is. And I dread game play now. Too too much work. Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 10:52 AM Bubbs - 28 March 2017 07:45 AM Has the “crew buyback” feature gone live? If so how does one use it? I believe the buyback isn’t scheduled to go live until 1.9 (next release). Signature Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 10:52 AM For those that don’t play on mobile, I’d like to illustrate why the Galaxy Map in 1.8.0 is such a big problem. Here’s a before an after screenshot: Let me put on my product owner hat for a moment and do some testing. QA, product team - please log the following bugs and triage. Regressions in 1.8.0 Galaxy map

1. Usability issue - only a single episode is available on initial galaxy map for mobile users

2. Usability issue - Difficult to zoom out map for mobile users

3. Usability issue - Difficult to navigate and move map for mobile users

4. Usability issue - Cannot zoom out map to show all episodes at once on mobile (screenshot)

5. Usability issue - Cannot see available chronitons before choosing episode

6. Display of stars on episode can exceed maximum number (screenshot)

7. Can no longer click on active shuttle on galaxy map to show shuttle mission New bugs in 1.8.0 Galaxy Map

1. After clearing new flag counter on mission button, it re-appears after client restart

2. New flag counter on mission button is incorrect (shows 8 when there are only 7 missions requiring additional stars)

3. Confusing use of terminology between Missions 1/9 and Episodes/Distress Calls. Missions exist within Episodes (there are 14 missions in episode 1)

4. Clicking on Missions 1/9 button does not navigate in a numerical or logical order (details)

5. Inconsistent naming on episodes and distress calls (details)

6. Galaxy map is showing locations which are inaccessible even when all systems are unlocked (screenshot) Please do not make the community do the job that you are paid to do. Not spam not spam Edit: fix broken link and again not spam Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 11:23 AM I’ve got a question. I started a faction shuttle (Maquis, if that matters). However, I did not staff the shuttle, and started a new one. When I go back to the faction screen, I can’t find the unstaffed shuttle. Has anyone else encountered this? Signature Task Force April, Fleet Founder Emeritus Newfie Central, Squad Founder, In Memoriam Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 11:27 AM Dat A - 28 March 2017 11:23 AM I’ve got a question. I started a faction shuttle (Maquis, if that matters). However, I did not staff the shuttle, and started a new one. When I go back to the faction screen, I can’t find the unstaffed shuttle. Has anyone else encountered this? They expire after a certain amount of time. A few minutes for the missions that only take a few minutes and 12 hours for most of the other ones. Did you go back immediately to look at it or did you wait awhile first? Signature Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 11:30 AM Amphistaff - 28 March 2017 11:27 AM Dat A - 28 March 2017 11:23 AM I’ve got a question. I started a faction shuttle (Maquis, if that matters). However, I did not staff the shuttle, and started a new one. When I go back to the faction screen, I can’t find the unstaffed shuttle. Has anyone else encountered this? They expire after a certain amount of time. A few minutes for the missions that only take a few minutes and 12 hours for most of the other ones. Did you go back immediately to look at it or did you wait awhile first? I went back immediately. My Maquis missions take 3 hours now, so unmanned shuttles should be there for 12 hours. Signature Task Force April, Fleet Founder Emeritus Newfie Central, Squad Founder, In Memoriam Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 11:37 AM Observe: The first picture should show my factions with no unmanned shuttle The second picture should show that there is either a shuttle to be claimed or an unmanned shuttle. Incidentally, the first picture also doesn’t show the progress of the staffed shuttle I just sent off either. Image Attachments Signature Task Force April, Fleet Founder Emeritus Newfie Central, Squad Founder, In Memoriam Profile

Posted: 28 March 2017 11:42 AM soo..don’t update to 1.8. Got it! Signature “Risk is our business. That is what a starship is all about.”

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