Can we phase out v5 yet?

[cbk1994]

I would like to see how the latest v6 performs before writing off the performance complaints. I suspect that most of the issues experienced by players were not harddrive-related.

[Admins]

A lot of lag problems come from hard drive speed problems.
About playerlist: with a GUI style like vplusblue the playerlist looks much better than in v5, why exactly would someone prefer the v5 look?

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Stefan

A lot of lag problems come from hard drive speed problems.
About playerlist: with a GUI style like vplusblue the playerlist looks much better than in v5, why exactly would someone prefer the v5 look?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I personally despise the look of vPlusBlue. The buttons look gaudy and make the text annoying to read.

Comparison:



1. The V5 is more compact, and well defined.
2. Uses native controls which overall feels much more responsive and work the way you expect them to.
3. Title bar can actually be read in V5.
4. Player list doesn't take up a 'window block' on their taskbar in V5.

[Hiro]

Why can't v6 just look exactly like v2 did? It was aesthetically the most pleasing, and felt right.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

1. The V5 is more compact, and well defined.
2. Uses native controls which overall feels much more responsive and work the way you expect them to.
3. Title bar can actually be read in V5.
4. Player list doesn't take up a 'window block' on their taskbar in V5.

I completely agree.

[Admins]

There: Moved the Mass-PM-Button to the bottom, reduced the height of the tabs at the top, made the window title shorter, shows account names instead of 'guest'.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Stefan

There: Moved the Mass-PM-Button to the bottom, reduced the height of the tabs at the top, made the window title shorter, shows account names instead of 'guest'.
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Looks better

[Crow]

Except for the dashes maybe. They should created so that the labels are centered. And I'd really like if you could turn the player list into a toolbox window (like it is in v5) in some future version so it only has a tiny "x" button instead of the full range of unneeded buttons.

[Crono]

if the sections were divided with a style similar to this it would be perfect imo.

[Admins]

Added "---" in front x-x

[AngBayani]

Perhaps also have a separate tab or section for Remote Controls. So players do not confuse it for a regular online player.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by AngBayani

Perhaps also have a separate tab or section for Remote Controls. So players do not confuse it as a regular online player.

I don't know, I like how RC is merged with players. If not, then have RC's show on the Staff section until that account has a staff tag on (in which case RC gets bumped down with the rest of the players).

[AngBayani]

I was thinking of it like that as well, but the problem with that is that staff generally do not want to be disturbed so they would rather not be bumped up at the top of the playerlist to avoid being spammed by several PMs every few minutes. I don't know if that occurs to other servers, but so far it has been from my experience.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Crono

I don't know, I like how RC is merged with players. If not, then have RC's show on the Staff section until that account has a staff tag on (in which case RC gets bumped down with the rest of the players).

YOU CHANGED YOUR AVATAR?!caps

[ffcmike]

Any chance of changing the word "Admins" to "Staff" like it is for V5?