Some thought needs to be placed into the UI for once.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Crono

rufus is right, but its not that hard to fix it so what's the fuss?

The chat thing is a bit hard to fix because it occupies a lot of screen, and all the corners are already occupied. Upper-left is occupied by ASD and other info, upper-right is occupied by HP and such, map is in the lower-left, and the notification is occupying lower-right.

However, what can be done is, because notifications go away, chat can be placed in the lower-right and whenever notifications occur the chat can fade away until the notifications are done. The problem is notifications MAY occur often enough that this will annoy people.

Alternative notifications can be moved under hearts since they don't steal too much screen space... but that might just look bad.

[Hiro]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

The chat thing is a bit hard to fix because it occupies a lot of screen, and all the corners are already occupied. Upper-left is occupied by ASD and other info, upper-right is occupied by HP and such, map is in the lower-left, and the notification is occupying lower-right.

However, what can be done is, because notifications go away, chat can be placed in the lower-right and whenever notifications occur the chat can fade away until the notifications are done. The problem is notifications MAY occur often enough that this will annoy people.

Alternative notifications can be moved under hearts since they don't steal too much screen space... but that might just look bad.

or you can just remove the minimap altogether

[Cubical]

Why not turn it into a multiline gui control and make it a fixed height based on the graal control size and add a scroll to it

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Cubical

Why not turn it into a multiline gui control and make it a fixed height based on the graal control size and add a scroll to it

That doesn't really resolve any issues with it occupying space, though...

[Cubical]

I don't know how it works right now but from the pictures it seems to go all the way up your screen so I don't know how it wouldn't cut down on the space when you can make 4 or 5 lines visible and the rest hidden.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Cubical

I don't know how it works right now but from the pictures it seems to go all the way up your screen so I don't know how it wouldn't cut down on the space when you can make 4 or 5 lines visible and the rest hidden.

That's not really the problem though, the problem is that it's overlapping the minimap, regardless of how large it is. You can't move the minimap, and the chat being in the center of the screen(above the minimap) would just look weird.

[Cubical]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

That's not really the problem though, the problem is that it's overlapping the minimap, regardless of how large it is. You can't move the minimap, and the chat being in the center of the screen(above the minimap) would just look weird.

/alignchat left /alignchat center /alignchat right

that way it can be wherever anyone wants it

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Cubical

/alignchat left /alignchat center /alignchat right

that way it can be wherever anyone wants it

Left is occupied by the map, right is occupied by notifications. The only place left is the center... and I dunno if centered chat history is the most appealing thing ever.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Cubical

/alignchat left /alignchat center /alignchat right

that way it can be wherever anyone wants it

You can already do that by clicking on the arrow button. It moves the block to 4 different positions you can pick from, but the problem still remains.

[Hiro]

Originally Posted by Rufus

You can already do that by clicking on the arrow button. It moves the block to 4 different positions you can pick from, but the problem still remains.

you can also change how much history it shows. mine looks like the picture all the way to the left, except it doesn't show as much history

[Cubical]

Originally Posted by Rufus

You can already do that by clicking on the arrow button. It moves the block to 4 different positions you can pick from, but the problem still remains.

What about remaking the minimap and disabling the default one then move it to the right and combine the notifications with the chat and keep it on the left?

[Cubical]

combine notifications and chat

[Cubical]

I used to use it on classic, gk and older zodiac just to hover to see where people were. It was sometimes glitchy though so you'd get half way to where you thought someone was and then it would update.

[MysticX2X]

what is the point of having a clock on your graal screen when about every OS has one on the taskbar.

[Luda]

Or they could just remove the chat system and we wouldn't have to think/comment on what would be a better solution to fix it from being cluttered.