Official Feedback Thread for Nameplates

ZOS_GinaBruno

This is the official feedback thread for nameplates. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

• Did you find the bars, names, and icons were clear and legible?
• Was the size too big, too small, or just right?
• Are there other options that you would like to have available?
• Do you have any other general feedback?

Elsonso

Hi.

The nameplates, bars, and icons are clear and legible, under optimum conditions.

The drop shadow is not dark enough. Would it be possible to put a semitransparent background behind the nameplate to improve readability? I am thinking just behind the text itself, not the entire area of the nameplate. Also, not a really dark background, definitely less than 30%. Just enough to pull it out from the background. (Edit:changed mind about background, bad idea) Even with the drop shadow, when it is muted due to not being the target, white text is hard to read in Orsinium against a snow background.

The size is a little odd. I was expecting them to be less noticeable (smaller) the further away they are. Instead, the text size seems to get bigger as the distance increases. (It does not actually get bigger, the surroundings get smaller)

When the UI is turned off (which I do for screen shots) the nameplates should also turn off.

BUG: Sometimes the foreground color is black in the nameplate text when targeted. Orzbara (musician) in Orsinium is where I saw this.

StopDropAndBear

I don't know if I'm just missing it or what but there doesn't seem to be any way to display someone's Class on their nameplate, which seems like kind of an important detail to see?

Enodoc

StopDropAndBear wrote: »

I don't know if I'm just missing it or what but there doesn't seem to be any way to display someone's Class on their nameplate, which seems like kind of an important detail to see?

Agreed. Add-ons handle this with a class icon; hopefully that would be something that ZOS could easily add, since they already have the system set up for alliance icons.

Ra'Shtar

I would like if guards and innocents would be treated as friendly NPCs until we engage combat because i like seeing the names of the enemies but i hate seeing all the names when i go into a town, neutral NPCs are treated as enemies so even if i change the friendly NPC to target only it doesn't affect them because they are treated as enemies even when you are not attacking or being attacked by them.

Mojmir

someone post a picture as an example please,im at work

Ra'Shtar

Here is an exmaple @Mojmir

Mojmir

Ra'Shtar wrote: »

Here is an exmaple @Mojmir

cool thank you!! are you able to toggle them off? as in not see any of them.

Ra'Shtar

Mojmir wrote: »

Ra'Shtar wrote: »

Here is an exmaple @Mojmir

cool thank you!! are you able to toggle them off? as in not see any of them.

They are toggled off by default, you have to active them.

Enodoc

Ra'Shtar wrote: »

I would like if guards and innocents would be treated as friendly NPCs until we engage combat because i like seeing the names of the enemies but i hate seeing all the names when i go into a town, neutral NPCs are treated as enemies so even if i change the friendly NPC to target only it doesn't affect them because they are treated as enemies even when you are not attacking or being attacked by them.

What would be better I think is if these Justice Neutral NPCs had their own, separate setting. There should be individual settings for:

• Hostile Enemy NPCs (red)
• Neutral Enemy NPCs (yellow)
• Justice Neutral NPCs (white)
• Friendly NPCs (green)
• Hostile Players (red)
• Friendly Players (blue)
• Group Members (cyan)
• Self

I would also love to see these colour identifiers appearing in the health bar that you see in the "static" nameplate at the top of the screen (the Azurah add-on does this, but it would be great as a base UI feature).

randolphbenoit

Can you add an option to nameplate

[ ] Click to see the word "the" instead of the comma (,)

ex. Names like "Billy, Explorer" shows as "Billy the Explorer", "Candy, Master Thief" shows as "Candy the Master Thief"

NewBlacksmurf

Ra'Shtar wrote: »

Here is an exmaple @Mojmir

Eewww
Takes me back to DAoC days. Glad there is an option. I won't bother to test it but glad it's added for the many months, years it was requested for

Woeler

I want to be able to show a guild of my choice in my nameplate WITHOUT having to wear a guild tabbard.

Also, different colours for friends and maybe guildmates would be nice.

Voxicity

Removed

Strider_Roshin

Woeler wrote: »

I want to be able to show a guild of my choice in my nameplate WITHOUT having to wear a guild tabbard.

Also, different colours for friends and maybe guildmates would be nice.

Agreed, can we represent our guild without having to wear the silky tabard? Also can we have a tabard that made from some other kind of material other than silk? Like leather, cloth or even some kind of metal overlay or scales? Something creative.

AzraelKrieg

Ra'Shtar wrote: »

Here is an exmaple @Mojmir

See this is now looking a lot more like every other online RPG out there. A welcome change for sure

KrishakPanettier

Instead of Guild Name based on Tabard currently worn, have a drop down selection menu for your Guilds like when you choose to claim a resource for your guild in Cyrodiil. Also add a permission in Guild whether someone can display Tabard and guildname.

Elsonso

Woeler wrote: »

I want to be able to show a guild of my choice in my nameplate WITHOUT having to wear a guild tabbard.

Also, different colours for friends and maybe guildmates would be nice.

Yeah, I figure this is the quick and dirty way to do it. Otherwise, the player has to find the UI to set the guild, or set none at all.

Epona222

I have always had enemy players and NPC healthbars turned on, and I do not like the change to them (whether nameplates are turned on or off) - the healthbars are now really large even when nameplates are toggled off, and look as though they belong in a game circa 1996 rather than 2016, rather than the quite tidy bars that were there before.

Not sure quite how to explain it, but the bars themselves (and the text when you turn on nameplates) looks really very lo-res compared to the rest of the graphics, or like they've been added in MS Paint.

Sorry to be so derogatory, I just can't think of/don't know a better or more technical way of describing it. It's really ugly and since it affects the appearance of health bars even when nameplates are turned off, I would appreciate it if the whole thing was tidied up a bit so that at least the healthbars look like they do currently in live.

EDIT: It's getting late here now, but tomorrow I will take some screenshots on live and on PTS to demonstrate what I am talking about

Vifen

Can we have a damage trail that not only shows damage done but also damage received? and that both can be toggled separately?

Voxicity

(unable to play on the PTS)

Can anyone confirm if alliance rank symbols are included in nameplates? I'd like to see this added if not

Enodoc

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Are there other options that you would like to have available?

Since it's a generally nameplatey thing, I hope this is also the right place for feedback on "resource numbers" (ie, seeing 25000 (100%) on your health bar and target frame).

I would like the following options for this, more than just "Number/Percent/Off", and split for Target Frame and Player Frame:

• Off
• Value (20000)
• Value/Max (20000/25000)
• Percent (80%)
• Value (Percent) (20000 (80%))
• All (20000/25000 (80%))

LMar

Did you find the bars, names, and icons were clear and legible?

Some of the chosen colours eg, our own health bar seem to fancy and do not fit in with the rest of the game

Was the size too big, too small, or just right?

Sizes feel way to big and floaty

Are there other options that you would like to have available?

Please allow us to remove our @username even when nameplates are toggled off. Seeing username under character name is unnimersive and also adds to the clutter and info overload

Do you have any other general feedback?

Please make everything be an option. Do not force changes especially visual ones on people. Also the Guild name, make it selectable from a drop down menu, instead of wearing tabards.
Similarly, Is there perhaps a better way to give the role of NPCs rather than a <Fence>? Perhaps Just "Fence" or Fence or "the Fence" wwould be preferable.

Having ESO being different than other MMOs is a good thing. We want ESO to stand out!

Epona222

OK I took some screenshots of health bars as they are on live and how they are on the PTS as I promised I would, I posted them on another thread though that was also specifically discussing the issue with health bars (not with the entire nameplate) so probably best if I just link to that thread here if that's OK (it's only a short thread and all my pics are on the first page!)

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/262203/new-intrusive-health-bar-is-ruining-my-immersion#latest

StopDropAndBear

I really can't say I care for the UserID display either, seems completely unnecessary to me.

VaxtinTheWolf

Enodoc wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Are there other options that you would like to have available?

Since it's a generally nameplatey thing, I hope this is also the right place for feedback on "resource numbers" (ie, seeing 25000 (100%) on your health bar and target frame).

I would like the following options for this, more than just "On/Off", and split for Target Frame and Player Frame:

• Off
• Value (20000)
• Value/Max (20000/25000)
• Percent (80%)
• Value (Percent) (20000 (80%))
• All (20000/25000 (80%))

Although you expanded on it more than I did, I also suggested a similar setup in a thread.

Nifty2g

Woeler wrote: »

I want to be able to show a guild of my choice in my nameplate WITHOUT having to wear a guild tabbard.

Also, different colours for friends and maybe guildmates would be nice.

My toon looks amazing I don't want to use a tabard

Annra

I do not want to show everyone my userID.

Destyran

Can any one post a pic of how to tell their rank now??

Elsonso

Enodoc wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Are there other options that you would like to have available?

Since it's a generally nameplatey thing, I hope this is also the right place for feedback on "resource numbers" (ie, seeing 25000 (100%) on your health bar and target frame).

I would like the following options for this, more than just "On/Off", and split for Target Frame and Player Frame:

• Off
• Value (20000)
• Value/Max (20000/25000)
• Percent (80%)
• Value (Percent) (20000 (80%))
• All (20000/25000 (80%))

Ugh. I would dislike that.

Hookgrin

UI On/Off needs to toggle nameplates on and off.

Would also like a keybind to toggle nameplates on and off. Nameplates are not something I want to use, but there may be times when being able to flip them on to find someone and then flip them back off might be useful.