Of course hovering will work very poorly if playing with a flightstick or controller. Personally I like more info to pop up when hovering the mouse cursor over something in the menu or map. Not to mention that if you actually play the game instead of getting 'shocked' how it's not EVE at every turn, you learn various regions rather quickly, since the world is flat and somewhat organized. So I'm not sure what is there to get 'shocked' about.

That UI was conceived and utilized well before there was an EVE, and was, and still is, quite sufficient for a single-player game. The information is not 'buried' anywhere, it's literally one key away at all times. get centered on your location in the universe map can see the name of the system and it's owner in the sector map The game can be turned into work, by having to dig for a system name, that one is located in. One learns the names and spacial layout of systems to each other, by seeing them constantly. I actually found myself naturally looking up and to the right in XTC as I flew around exploring and using the systems, and was shocked that this critical info was buried in yet another menu.

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