Interface suggestion

Zobo · Dec 25, 2008, 09:16 PM

Hi!

I am sure most of us have played with mimics, or had other units that had 18 or more promotions. This is nice, but has the annoying side effect of obscuring important data, such as the current health of the unit.

I would propose to move the numerical values (important) to the left of the descriptive label (which is always the same) thus making it a bit more difficult to cover up.

Thus instead of Strength 5.6/14 we would have 5.6/14 Strength
Instead of Level 14 we would have 14 levels

I hope this is an easy fix, and would make the game just a bit more playable.

Merry Christmas, and thanks for a wonderful game!

Ranos · Dec 25, 2008, 09:41 PM

That would be nice but you can also mouse over the unit and see it's health, along with the health of all of the other units in the stack.

xienwolf · Dec 25, 2008, 09:42 PM

Actually that is fairly trivial to do and could work quite nicely.

xalien · Dec 26, 2008, 11:44 AM

Two more interface things:

1. if you have the ability to see other civs research (vassal or eyes and ears network) it makes the civ list wider so it starts to overlap with units list in a stack and it gets quite difficult to select a unit at the end of the top row.

2. If you have a wide screen display and go to the city wiev only the central section gets wider (production/growth progress, resource layout, building options). This doesn't give any benefits, OTOH the side sections - the left one in particular - remain as they were and many of the building and wonder names are still truncated.

Dec 25, 2008, 09:16 PM	#1
Zobo Chieftain Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Finland Posts: 69	Interface suggestion Hi! I am sure most of us have played with mimics, or had other units that had 18 or more promotions. This is nice, but has the annoying side effect of obscuring important data, such as the current health of the unit. I would propose to move the numerical values (important) to the left of the descriptive label (which is always the same) thus making it a bit more difficult to cover up. Thus instead of Strength 5.6/14 we would have 5.6/14 Strength Instead of Level 14 we would have 14 levels I hope this is an easy fix, and would make the game just a bit more playable. Merry Christmas, and thanks for a wonderful game!

Dec 25, 2008, 09:42 PM	#3
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Dec 25, 2008, 09:41 PM	#2
Ranos King Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Minnesota Posts: 816	That would be nice but you can also mouse over the unit and see it's health, along with the health of all of the other units in the stack.

Dec 26, 2008, 11:44 AM	#4
xalien Prince Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 511	Two more interface things: 1. if you have the ability to see other civs research (vassal or eyes and ears network) it makes the civ list wider so it starts to overlap with units list in a stack and it gets quite difficult to select a unit at the end of the top row. 2. If you have a wide screen display and go to the city wiev only the central section gets wider (production/growth progress, resource layout, building options). This doesn't give any benefits, OTOH the side sections - the left one in particular - remain as they were and many of the building and wonder names are still truncated.

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