No interface Improvements?

[Dekent]

I noticed that this patch didn't seem to change anything to Dom2's argueably weakest point: It's interface.

Does anyone know if Illwinter has any plans for this? It seems to be one of the biggest issues with all of the patch speculation and suggestions, yet nothing at all was done to help it. Most of them are rather minor, and certainly don't require much work, and it seems rather bizare that such common things as "Return to main menu" in game are not present.

It just boggles my mind we get something like Ulms new theme (which just boggles my mind in general) and not have such a widespread issue covered. (Especially when you may have a flock of potential new cusomters thanks to all the gaming mags reviews)

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Dekent:
It just boggles my mind we get something like Ulms new theme (which just boggles my mind in general) and not have such a widespread issue covered. (Especially when you may have a flock of potential new cusomters thanks to all the gaming mags reviews)

OR I saw alot of discussion of alot of things that Users felt needed "fixed". I saw some responses from the devs that they were interested in some of them. I see a number of interface improvements in the patch. And now you comment that it looks like they did some fun things in their free time instead of a solo-player feature...
What was the question again?

[ January 13, 2004, 02:35: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Dekent]

If they plan to change any of the interface issues in coming patches, or is it something with a very low priority.

The interface DOES turn off people from buying the game when they try out the demo...and when minor things aren't worked on then what hope is there for the other problems?

[PvK]

According to Gandalf, there are interface improvements, even if they might not all be on the feature list.

Are there other examples of simple interface improvements that would make a meaningful difference?

Personally, I though the changes list looked super! Ulm Black Forest sounds interesting to me.

Also personally, I don't care at all if it has a "return to menu" option or not. It only takes a few seconds to exit and re-start manually, and it's something I almost never want to do in practice. It's possible it might not be entirely trivial to implement, either. Is that really a meaningful feature to you? Hard for me to imagine, but I realize everyone likes different things.

PvK

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by PvK:
Also personally, I don't care at all if it has a "return to menu" option or not. It only takes a few seconds to exit and re-start manually, and it's something I almost never want to do in practice.

That's the hard way. The easy way is to rpess 'e', then click on exit. It takes you back to the main menu and saves what you've currently done in your turn. You have the option of starting again, or continuing from the same orders when you go back to the turn.

[Dekent]

Hmm wish I knew that when I was remaking the game 30 x in a row playing with the mod tools a few hours ago ;p