When buying items in the game, there is no good way to compare statistics on how one item is better than another. For instance, a quantum drive at the same tier could be more or less efficient, but it could be quicker on spool or jump. Is there any plan of showing these statistics in-game?
TL;DRShowing item stats in-game is definitely planned as part of the Building Blocks conversion, with seeing stats prioritised first and easy comparison coming later once the user flow is worked out.
100% plan, yes. Wanted it for a long time. This is part of our Building Blocks conversion, to figure out how we can actually get these things that we've talked about for a while into the UI. It's going to definitely come in waves. The first thing for me is trying to upgrade this experience of just buying and selling items. I think item stats is probably one of the higher priority topics to address first. Just so you can at least see them. Even if you have to flip back and forth, you can't click on two and compare; that's additional functionality. But just getting the stats there is certainly my higher priority on that list. And then having a quick, easy way to compare two items, or to one on your ship, or maybe even to one that's not even at that location. So we've got to figure out how that user flow needs to work a little bit better, I think, before we just jump into that. But it is extremely important. Right now we're baking item descriptions and stats into the description text, which is just horrendous. So yeah, we want to move away from that as quickly as possible. Localization guys would love that.