Some thought needs to be placed into the UI for once. - Page 2

kia345 · #16 10-06-2010, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Hiro

how is talking to players not a part of graal's gameplay? almost all anyone does on graal is talk amongst their friends, guilds, etc. and to say that it doesn't make up a significant part of why we play graal, hence why it's been focused on and refined with the world chat, then you are just dumb

besides, i'd rather see what people have said around me rather than knowing how many bombs and arrows i have or where some random person is on the useless minimap. and guess what - you can just turn off the world chat instead of turning off the minimap and GUI. it's like it was designed to be customizable for player's who don't want to focus on the history of conversation - just like you!!!

i can have space for my world chat, and you can have room for your useless crap that "enhances" your gameplay

All you have said is pretty much "i like graal better for the talkin' than the playin'"

Which goes back to you/UN treating it more like a chat client than a game

Hiro · #17 10-06-2010, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by kia345

All you have said is pretty much "i like graal better for the talkin' than the playin'"

Which goes back to you/UN treating it more like a chat client than a game

70% of what i do on UN is spar, the other 30% is spent talking to friends. stop trying to stereotype me with your biased agenda

kia345 · #18 10-06-2010, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Hiro

stop trying to stereotype me with your biased agenda

You're doing that yourself

fowlplay4 · #19 10-06-2010, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by kia345

You're doing that yourself

You'd better stop stereotyping him with your biased zorbi agenda, I tell you wat!

ff7chocoboknight · #20 10-07-2010, 02:10 AM

UN should die while attempting to become an RPG server like Delt and NP.

DustyPorViva · #21 10-07-2010, 02:13 AM

They should merge the notification system and the chat system when they are both active... somehow. Dunno, notification system is all fancy-shmancy, so people might not like having it simplified to just looking like the regular chat history.

Hiro · #22 10-07-2010, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by kia345

Which goes back to you/UN treating it more like a chat client than a game

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Originally Posted by kia345

You're doing that yourself

hurr durr

i gave you a way to fix the clutter, you're saying it's unnecessary and should be fixed by staff instead of having to input simple commands. you can say that without pitting people against people for no reason

Crono · #23 10-07-2010, 02:56 AM

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

DustyPorViva · #24 10-07-2010, 03:05 AM

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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 · #25 10-07-2010, 04:08 AM

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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 · #26 10-07-2010, 04:12 AM

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 · #27 10-07-2010, 04:24 AM

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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 · #28 10-07-2010, 04:27 AM

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 · #29 10-07-2010, 04:49 AM

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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 · #30 10-07-2010, 04:59 AM

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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