Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Publish 10 Feedback: GUI Enhancements
PhoenixOrion
Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:18 am
#183
ins4n3 wrote:
Im getting a POI bug where if i leave a POI from another planet active, when i shuttle to another planet, i still have the POI wp active and i can no longer deactivate it. Unless i fly back to the other planet in order to deactivate it.
I had that last night too, even when I turned the POI off BEFORE leaving Dantooine. It still showed up when I hit Naboo. 
Also, still having the autopull bug with crates of smuggler tools in main inventory.
simspike
Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:18 am
#184
I havn't got time to look through all the posts so this might of already been mentioned.
Anyway, we can put bikes in the toolbar and call them, But why can't we put droids in and call them?
Spike
Maryk
Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:53 am
#185
Please bring back the shadow on the names. It is EXTREMELY difficult to read same factioned names anywhere but Dath. You are going to make us all blind!
Also, can you institute some sort of selection box that will get rid of the "how to use /findfriend" notifictation every time someone on my friends list logs on. I have to expand my chat window just to accomodate the extra sentence and keep up with group or guild chat. It is annoying more than anything. I wish there was a way to turn /findfriend completely off since I will never use it. If I want to know where someone is, I usually use "/tell name hey... where are you?"
It's crazy, I know!!!
Also, can you institute some sort of selection box that will get rid of the "how to use /findfriend" notifictation every time someone on my friends list logs on. I have to expand my chat window just to accomodate the extra sentence and keep up with group or guild chat. It is annoying more than anything. I wish there was a way to turn /findfriend completely off since I will never use it. If I want to know where someone is, I usually use "/tell name hey... where are you?"
It's crazy, I know!!!
Master Bounty Hunter u
Loekta
Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:01 pm
#186
Please fix the name colours, my brain hurts
Oh.. and find friend needs to be consensual. I know I'm the nth person to post this, perhaps an indicator of how annoying both issues are?
Nailliar
Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:42 pm
#187
Can they shrink the "Consider" circles in the Radar, they currently seem to be 4 times the size of the original circles and overlap badly when mobs are close together like at a lair? It looks like if they circles were not in "orbit" but right on the border of the orignal target circle, it'd save some space and limit the confusion a little.
Verocit
Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:44 pm
#188
Thunderheart wrote:
- Con(sider) circles on radar
It's makes it a bit cluttered.
Maybe if they were tight circles rather than doughnut around the blips. Like a slightly larger dot underneath.. I'm guessing there may have been flicker issues?
Perhaps just change the blips themselves from red/yellow to the con colors rather than trying to get all the information at once?
Maybeconsider (heh) an option to make them appear intermittently in a pulse fasion, or better yet, have the con time out after a while. "Yes, I have been fighting this GDK for 15 minutes, I realize that it con's red to me."
Lastly, the rings being off-center fromthe blips is strangely irritating. Just looks kinda thrown on rather than built in.
-a
Neshameh
Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:07 pm
#189
Has anyone else had challenges with the inventory encumbrance?
I unequipped a pack with 45 items in it to wear a bandolier.
With the pack unequipped, inventory shows 51/60 items, I cannot put anything in the pack, unequip anything, move, or
equip the pack at the moment, nor have I been able to trade anything from the pack to a friend to try to resolve.
I do have about 6 items equipped (clothing).
Any thoughts?
VoweDarkwave
Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:17 am
#190
For the love of God...
Turn SHADOWS ON TEXT BACK ON.
It can't be difficult.
TURN IT BACK ON. DO IT. DO IT NOW.
I'm tired of the migraines this game is now causing me from squinting and straining to read anyone's names. Buff in a starport for awhile and try to read people's names. Go ahead. Your camera has to turn this way and that, up and down, towards the ground or sky if it's nighttime, it's LAME.
This game looks like garbage - and everyone notices SOMETHING is wrong, but can't pinpoint it. IT'S THE SHADOWS, FIX IT BEFORE I RUN OUT OF HEADACHE MEDS.
Who's running this show, anyways? Monkeys at typewriters? Did you NOT SEE the TONS of posts regarding this during Test Center testing? Huh? Did you READ the Test Center comments by people?
This is no whining. This is a medical condition. Your game now give me migraines from straining to read anything.
FIX IT ALREADY.
Whaler
Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:14 am
#191
Camera Shake Toggle
This is a good option, tho it has never bothered me.
Crafting Inventory option
I don't craft so can't comment
Con(sider) circles on radar
This is excellent and the toggle is a good feature.
Is your XP updating
I am maxxed on all xp so I can't tell.
All the GUI changes appear to be good ones, tho I can't comment on the Crafting changes.
Kurtzmann
Fri Sep 03, 2004 8:46 am
#192
TH,
For the love of God man! Put the drop-shadows back on for names!
Alii
Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:16 pm
#193
Is there any place to see an up-to-date list of known issues and plans to address/notAddress those issues?
Specifically, I'd like to know about...
1. Global map utility is severely hampered due to poor choice of color for label text. The user seems to have no way to change this. A CSR told me that the color is tied to the NPC con system -- for some unknown reason. Which idiot chose yellow-on-yellowishBrown for the maps?
2. Mission lairs spawn inside player structures. This happens maybe as much as 5 percent of the time in popular areas.
3. Why does my inventory constantly rearrange itself? When I sort by type, you'd think it would stay sorted that way, maybe with new items unsorted at the end. Instead, things seem to get periodically shuffled in some arbitrary pattern. Why can I not manually arrange the inventory the way I want it and have it stay that way?
4. Mission system doesn't scale difficulty properly. Each time I log in, I seem to have to start with "beginner" missions. More difficult/valuable missions *sometimes* become available after completing a few of the beginners -- but not always. Sometimes, after playing for a while, I am again restricted to beginner missions for no apparent reason.
5. "Instant Death" NPCs occasionally spawn right on top of you while travelling. It is highly disconcerting to be travelling crosscountry on a difficulty-2 mission, then suddenly have a red dot appear nearby and read the message "You have been killed by a Tusken Observer" -- having had exactly zero opportunity to notice or react to the danger.
6. What exactly is the point of running back-and-forth to town to obtain missions? You're not interacting with anyone and, technically, it seems that it would make more sense simply to consult your datapad and download more missions while remaining in the field.
7. Why do I get a TEF for executing a mission against NPCs created specifically for that mission? This clearly has nobearing onPvP gameplay, so why drag a PvE character into an unwanted and potentially overwhelming situation?
8. When are battlefields coming back? This was one of the features I most expected to enjoy from discussions back in the pre-release days.
9. Is anything being considered to promote participation in the GCW? Perhaps this is related to the missing battlefields.
10. What's up with the Jedi? Back in the day, I seem to recall hearing that, a year after release, we might see 5 Jedi in the entire game. Instead, what I find is seemingly everyone and his cousin's dog busily grinding their way down the "mysterious" Jedi path.
Ok, don't want to go too negative. I could write a book on what's wrong with SWG gameplay and how I would change it. For now, I'd settle for just some hope that the worst downers will be fixed before I give up and quit.
Silberado
Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:24 am
#194
I like the Con(sider) on my lower level characters on another Server, howeverI have the same problem withthe floating doughnut look of the radar, so I don't use it on my main Character. I understand why you do this, because if you put it right next to the dot your eyes will see a different color of the dot. eg, A yellow dot with red circle would appear as a orange dot. Sometimes i'll see a purple triangle on my overlayed map next to or under another object and it will appear as a red triangle at first glance.
Would it work better if you used a different shape as the 'doughnut' like a triangle or square? Maybe something to try out.
Stevil_Firebrand
Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:18 am
#195
Resource Quality Bars:
Please, Please, Please...
Can you change the graphic for this?
I find it a really good tool to use when i want to quickly compare several types of the same resource in the same slot. saves looking at the numbers or the names of each individual one. Unfortunately it looks dreadful.
Everything else within the crafting window, and all other windows, are rounded in shape and the colour of yellow on black is garish and spoils the look of an otherwiise fine crafting window.
My suggestion would be to round off the bars at either end and keep the current colour scheme for the bar except for the black background... i feel this should be more suited to what colour scheme is already in use by the player. For Example, mine is blue, so the bar background should be blue also (darker for definition).