I can think of enough reasons that most of these UI elements would be relevant to be against hiding it by default or having a permanent setting that hides it.
It might be interesting to have a toggle that can turn most of those UI elements on/off within the UI itself, though.
#Add a Toggle to hide the information at the top left and right
gentle swift
Something like one of these
fierce gust
yea, making it default would be negative. A toggle would be great
gentle swift
Examples of why you might want to see some of these in a red star:
- Do I have enough hydro left to load and return my arts?
- Do I have enough space left in my credit storage for my croid?
- Invite friends to RS
- Change a setting
- Keep an eye on research you know will finish soon
- Buy emergency hydrogen
- Look at objective/achievement status
etc.
gentle swift
It is not clear to me from your post whether this would be a setting (as in something in the settings menu) or a UI element as I was speaking of.
You may see my original posts as to why I believe it would be better off as a new UI element than a permanent setting.
Imagine for example if instead of having the chat window hidden most of the time behind a toggle at the bottom of the screen it was a permanent setting instead. It would be very awkward if you suddenly needed to send a message in the RS and had to go to your settings to do so.