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Strategus => Strategus General Discussion => Topic started by: Aderyn on August 08, 2012, 07:47:19 am

Title: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Aderyn on August 08, 2012, 07:47:19 am
--- Map

*Hard to see who's who on the map. Would be nice to see my enemies easy. =)

--- Info

*Trading menu is 1000x times better than it used to be, good job on that one. (Been like that a few weeks now)
*Would be neat if pressing "select" when choosing what to craft would just drop a rolldownlist instead of dragging you back up to the top.
*Good that it shows how much gold everyone has now! Finally dont have to ctrl+F to find their names ;)

--- Weapons

*Finally i know what i'm buying! Alot easier to navigate through formated items :P

--- Inventory

*The masterwork icons could be replaced by just the normal items i guess so they at least work, but i'm sure you're aware of that glitch(or lack of pictures).
*while it does look prettier, it's actually harder to organize the stuff... may i suggest a compressed view where it says what you have and how many. And an advanced view where it says all the stats for each weapon looking kinda like it does now?

--- Faction

*I find it hard to navigate through, so many clicks just to find out what 3 people have on them. Somehow i kinda found the last system easier to look at to find out what people had quickly. The current layout is alot more timeconsuming if you want to find out what people has.

--- Battles

*Alot easier to look at upcoming battles. Think my scrollwheel is just as happy as me.
*The separated messages is SOOOO helpful. Less drama!

--- Global

*While there was alot of good things added the overall view for the leaders was somewhat gimped in my opinion. It's probably gonna take me at least twice as long managing strat than it used to :| maybe more.




I'll give it 3/5.
falls down a bit because of the increased amount of time it takes to do stuff. :]
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: chadz on August 08, 2012, 08:52:31 am
some of it should be fixed
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Vovka on August 08, 2012, 09:25:30 am
Please separate the information about the character's items/crates in a separate column, and add sorting by name, troops, gold and items  :rolleyes:
right now we have a bloody mess in our faction list  :P
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: chadz on August 08, 2012, 09:36:40 am
just kick out the ghosters, npnp
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Vovka on August 08, 2012, 09:41:56 am
Quote from: chadz on August 08, 2012, 09:36:40 am
just kick out the ghosters, npnp
it does not simplify the search )
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Molly on August 08, 2012, 09:42:34 am
Quote from: chadz on August 08, 2012, 09:36:40 am
just kick out the ghosters, npnp
trololo  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Aderyn on August 08, 2012, 10:56:35 am
Quote from: chadz on August 08, 2012, 09:36:40 am
just kick out the ghosters, npnp

I laughed. =)
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Visconti on August 08, 2012, 10:57:14 am
Quote from: chadz on August 08, 2012, 09:36:40 am
just kick out the ghosters, npnp

haha

but yeah, prefer the old system of being able to see what people had on them, as well as the old eye candys icons for players/armies
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: HarunYahya on August 08, 2012, 02:26:17 pm
What happened to fief pictures ?
When i double click on fief's name/icon, i don't get fief pictures anymore .
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Vovka on August 08, 2012, 04:27:15 pm
Quote from: Vovka on August 08, 2012, 09:25:30 am
Please separate the information about the character's items/crates in a separate column, and add sorting by name, troops, gold and items  :rolleyes:
right now we have a bloody mess in our faction list  :P
also Info about weight and the number of crates is not displayed if the player has only goods. I tried to remove a couple of ghost accounts, but it did not help. The only solution - buy any item.
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on August 08, 2012, 05:06:04 pm
Only thing to say is I like the overview being like Eye Candy (except circles instead of squares, which I like better).  The only thing that looks off to me now, is that the fiefs are massive on the map.  I'm moving at almost 17 meters/minute on the map, and for me to travel 3 hours is the same width as some of the fief pictures (like a castle I'm near).

Also my pipe dream is to allow two views for equipment menus, one is the "nice/pretty" looking view.  The second would be something that is broken down into columns for equipment and numbers, so I can easily copy and paste into a spread sheet.

Both of these views should allow us to organize by item type.  One nice thing about eye candy, is our current inventory we could organize into categories of equipment type, I see we do not have that functionality now.

Currently it takes me about 30 minutes or more to get all of my equipment into a spreadsheet.  After every battle it takes a lot of time to update the spreadsheet.
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: HarunYahya on August 08, 2012, 05:11:27 pm
Quote from: Vovka on August 08, 2012, 09:25:30 am
sorting by name, troops, gold and items  :rolleyes:
This needs to be done asap .
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Lizard_man on August 08, 2012, 06:19:04 pm
Just a complete mess on my end, IE and Firefox... :?

Edit:

Nevermind, got it working on Firefox...
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: HarunYahya on August 08, 2012, 06:41:01 pm

can't see waypoints of my faction members....
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Lech on August 08, 2012, 09:29:08 pm
Quote from: Lizard_man on August 08, 2012, 06:19:04 pm
Just a complete mess on my end, IE and Firefox... :?

Edit:

Nevermind, got it working on Firefox...

Lololo, you use IE :D ?
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Lizard_man on August 08, 2012, 09:44:48 pm
Quote from: Lech on August 08, 2012, 09:29:08 pm
Lololo, you use IE :D ?

Indeed i do... :P
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Knute on August 08, 2012, 11:51:24 pm
EDIT: Nevermind, fixed!

Map problem:

When someone is behind the name of a fief, their name won't pop up.  In the picture below to find the neutral behind the Rivacheg text, I had to click through the list of people until the map centered on him. 

There's also a battle behind the button for Vezin and the people involved in it don't show up on the list of people you can spot.  I was able to find the battle in the upcoming battles tab on the website because of the blue clan color but if neutrals were fighting it'd be hard to find out which battle it was.


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Thoughts on map:

It's easier to see actual positions of people on the map, which is good.  Compared to the old version though it does look a little too technical for my taste without all the peasant and fief grfx cluttering up the map.  Everything just looks a lot flatter so it'll take some time to get used to.  I don't care for the shapes behind the fief names either.  It might look better to take out the shapes, increase the size of the text and then add more drop shadow.  On the pic above you can see the Rivacheg text is just a pink blob.  Here's an example of the old version with the same color text where I think it stands out a lot better:

(click to show/hide)

It'd also be nice if there was an option to bring up all the pop-ups with names/numbers at once, like in the old version. 
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: FRANK_THE_TANK on August 09, 2012, 12:16:52 am
One thing that is need is chorts old break up for the info and transfers menu. I know when the new multi transfer system was introduced that it messed it up a bit so when ever that comes back the thing is going to be pretty awesome.

Also as I mentioned in irc a system for marking the map for your clan mates would be great. Writing things like "DRAGONS BE HERE!" and safe trade lanes would be excellent.

-----

I do love chorts stuff though been using it for all of S3.

xoxo Chorty poo!
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Oberyn on August 09, 2012, 02:09:04 pm
I missed my eyecandy! Thanks chort for your work.
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: FRANK_THE_TANK on August 09, 2012, 02:25:47 pm
A solution to the problem noted by Knute is to deselect Town name.

Up the top there are 4 tickable boxes.

Faction
Town
Neutrals
Scroll bar

If you deselect town you will be able to click all over the fief icon and where the name normally is.
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on August 11, 2012, 12:23:10 am
I personally don't like how large the fief pictures are when you enter them on one pixel of the map.  The time it takes for a large army to cross from one side of a Town to the other can easily be 4-6 hours.  Even with my almost 17 meters/min march speed, the length between the edge of a towns graphic and the far side is hours.  I think the graphics should go back to their original size.
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: Digglez on August 11, 2012, 11:00:41 am
There doesnt seem to be a way to queue up a march and ENTER into another village without coming back and clicking on the 'you are in the vicinity of...'.  Or am I missing something?

With Eyecandy, you could like on a village in the distance and it would have option to enter or attack.  If you clicked enter it would start you marching there and enter when you got in range
Title: Re: Feedback - new strat action menu layout
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on August 13, 2012, 05:26:26 pm
Quote from: Digglez on August 11, 2012, 11:00:41 am
There doesnt seem to be a way to queue up a march and ENTER into another village without coming back and clicking on the 'you are in the vicinity of...'.  Or am I missing something?

With Eyecandy, you could like on a village in the distance and it would have option to enter or attack.  If you clicked enter it would start you marching there and enter when you got in range


The checkboxes at the top right were getting unchecked when you re-connected to the strat overview...I had the same issue myself.  The names will come back if you check the box for "towns"