Feb 18th 2014, 15:00:11
This game is showing its age. Some pages are just clunky.
1) The Military page.
Yeah, it shows readiness and when brigades will be back from their PS hits, but is otherwise useless. Is there any reason it cannot be merged with the attack screen? Just add another column to the left that has a box showing how many units are resting and when they will return.
2) In-game communications.
This is terrible. There is no other way to describe this. Can we get a proper inbox that sorts messages by sender and keeps track of our replies? It is a pain in the ass to communicate with other players on solo servers, especially if I ask several players something different each and one of them replies with "yes." and I've forgotten what I needed that person for.
3) Merge the Explore and Build Screens
Pretty much all openings start with Build. Explore. Build. Explore. Lather Rinse Repeat. I think it would be beneficial to have an exploration box on the Build screen and just trash the explore screen all together.
4) Merge the Manage and Advisor Screens
Make government selection a drop box on the advisor screen and have boxes there to adjust tax and production. One less page.
5) The spy screen
If the merging the military and war room screens works out, how about slicing off a small section of the page for hostile spy ops. Switching tabs for different functions in a single game is so circa 2004, and actually have it capable of remembering a target other than the one we are attacking with the military.
That's all I have for the moment, but I think this will be beneficial as long as the "OMG YOU CHANGED IT?! IT IS RUINED FOREVER!!!!" peeps go fluff themselves.
1) The Military page.
Yeah, it shows readiness and when brigades will be back from their PS hits, but is otherwise useless. Is there any reason it cannot be merged with the attack screen? Just add another column to the left that has a box showing how many units are resting and when they will return.
2) In-game communications.
This is terrible. There is no other way to describe this. Can we get a proper inbox that sorts messages by sender and keeps track of our replies? It is a pain in the ass to communicate with other players on solo servers, especially if I ask several players something different each and one of them replies with "yes." and I've forgotten what I needed that person for.
3) Merge the Explore and Build Screens
Pretty much all openings start with Build. Explore. Build. Explore. Lather Rinse Repeat. I think it would be beneficial to have an exploration box on the Build screen and just trash the explore screen all together.
4) Merge the Manage and Advisor Screens
Make government selection a drop box on the advisor screen and have boxes there to adjust tax and production. One less page.
5) The spy screen
If the merging the military and war room screens works out, how about slicing off a small section of the page for hostile spy ops. Switching tabs for different functions in a single game is so circa 2004, and actually have it capable of remembering a target other than the one we are attacking with the military.
That's all I have for the moment, but I think this will be beneficial as long as the "OMG YOU CHANGED IT?! IT IS RUINED FOREVER!!!!" peeps go fluff themselves.
--Xelah
Death Knights
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Death Knights
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