Excavator timer change isn't helpful

[IceFire909]

So the Excavation UI was touched up when mining for Siber Cryotic, and its nice seeing the timer. but while it's taken away converting a power into time, its just shifted that over instead to converting time into power.

The main issue this has is that time is in groupings of 60 not 100. Since I assume lots of people only put the required amount in, it now has you not 100% sure if you need one more cell or not. Converting 1:25 into 85% isn't as simple as converting 85% into 85 seconds.

DE can we either get an option to toggle between the current timer or old timer, or just have the old timer style added in to the excavator UI too. It was easier to tell how long the excavator had left when it was just percentages. now its become "read how many seconds are on the timer then add 60 if it's over a minute". which, while simple math, is unnecessary complication especially on a game that is as fast paced as Warframe.

[VoxGray]

Hadn't played an Excavate since they made the change, I'm surprised they would do something like that. They've recently been making changes to eliminate superfluous quick-math, so it seems counterintuitive to change the timer to now require it. It was hard enough to get rookies to stop over-filling excavators when it was a 1:1 ratio on your screen, let alone asking them to actually think about how many power cells they need...

[Vetterman]

Feeling the same way. It is no rocket science but completely not necessary. 

 

And if we are at it: would it hurt to show the number of "messed up" excavators? 

Formerly you could look at the number and get a feel of what rotation you are at AND how many excavators you lost at the same time. Now you either have to remember or look at the cryotic manually to find out how many are lost. 

Actually you have to remember with both systems but the difference is:

Now you dont see if you messed up if you didnt hear the message. Formerly any non-even numbers were "messed up" and changing non-even numbers were "messed up again".

Being at 20 excavators and being at 20 excavators with 8 lost excavators is a difference!

This is important lost information when it comes to the decision "do another 4 or not"

 

 

Edited March 5, 2018 by Vetterman
typos and mis-spelling beyond my standards. :)