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Don't hover over on things that have tooltips? Tooltips are there to convey additional information. You can't disable them. You can adjust their speed in the preferences.

Which ones are you on about?

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23 minutes ago, Lucas said:

Don't hover over on things that have tooltips? Tooltips are there to convey additional information. You can't disable them. You can adjust their speed in the preferences.

Which ones are you on about?

all of them in all screens

 
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Honestly I've always wished I could disable them, they do really get in the way and slowing their speed only slightly mitigates the problem.

Especially on the main squad screen and during team selection in tactics.

1 hour ago, Lucas said:

Don't hover over on things that have tooltips? Tooltips are there to convey additional information. You can't disable them. You can adjust their speed in the preferences.

Which ones are you on about?

Would love to know what 'additional information' these add :D

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4 minutes ago, CaptainPlanet said:

Honestly I've always wished I could disable them, they do really get in the way and slowing their speed only slightly mitigates the problem.

Especially on the main squad screen and during team selection in tactics.

Would love to know what 'additional information' these add :D

yeah ...its very annoying

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39 minutes ago, CaptainPlanet said:

Would love to know what 'additional information' these add :D

Cut off strings, expanding abbreviations, explaining icons, explaining what things do.

Tooltips only ever appear if your mouse cursor is over an item (usually a button or some text) that has one and is idling over it. Even if you could disable them (you can't), it would be for everything which means you'll miss out on the cases where you do need it. 

Can't say I see the issue, but I can see your point that if it's not adding anything then you don't need that particular one. There's tooltips everywhere in all applications. Even leaving my mouse idle in this text box as I respond, it brings up a tooltip telling me what I can by typing or right-clicking.

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11 minutes ago, Lucas said:

Cut off strings, expanding abbreviations, explaining icons, explaining what things do.

Tooltips only ever appear if your mouse cursor is over an item (usually a button or some text) that has one and is idling over it. Even if you could disable them (you can't), it would be for everything which means you'll miss out on the cases where you do need it. 

Can't say I see the issue, but I can see your point that if it's not adding anything then you don't need that particular one. There's tooltips everywhere in all applications. Even leaving my mouse idle in this text box as I respond, it brings up a tooltip telling me what I can by typing or right-clicking.

There are certain places where idling over happens often and the size of the text box obscures other stuff, having to keep the mouse moving to avoid or remembering to leave the mouse idle somewhere else is a mild inconvenience, but is an inconvenience nonetheless.  

Most of them is fine, as you say it's a normal software feature, but when some of them get in the way and literally offer no added value, it's just a bit of an annoying UI design for me.

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Thankfully if I hover over his name, the handy tooltip tells me his name! :D

 

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This is the main one that irks me by getting in the way, because it's bloody huge and after I've learned what UI actions I can take with left/right click it adds no value for the next 5,000 hours that I play the game.

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8 minutes ago, CaptainPlanet said:

Thankfully if I hover over his name, the handy tooltip tells me his name! :D

 

Sometimes that might be truncated and cut off tbf.

8 minutes ago, CaptainPlanet said:

This is the main one that irks me by getting in the way, because it's bloody huge and after I've learned what UI actions I can take with left/right click it adds no value for the next 5,000 hours that I play the game.

Can see why that might be annoying, but it's one I rarely see when I play. You can drag and drop the pkd icons, or even swap players by dragging and dropping their names, etc. Can see why the verboseness of it is annoying for you, though.

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8 minutes ago, Lucas said:

Sometimes that might be truncated and cut off tbf.

But it isn't for me, or the other 100 tooltips that just display exactly what I'm hovering over. So just thought I'd voice my feedback on it.

If there was a global tooltip off option as part of UI customising, I'd 100% pick it, because it literally never adds any value for me at all on any screen, but there isn't. It's not like it's a major issue but it does very mildly impact my overall enjoyment of the UI.

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