Some minor UI gripes

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by PDF:
Can't get your point : I ask for "End Turn" to be split 2 separate features/buttons :
1/ "Save Turn" : will only save the .2h file, for MP use mainly, but also usable in SP
2/ "Next turn" : will save the host .2h file, process the turn and display the turn report, as the Dom1 SP "End Turn".

You won't lose anything ...

That would be ok - I just find it refreshing to not be thrust into the next turn after finishing the one that came before.

Would it scratch your itches to have the button labeled 'continue' instead of 'host'? I mean is one more click that big of an annoyance, or is it that it is confusing to new players?

[Pocus]

I concur with Patrik, I now find very useful the sub menu in single player, as it allows you to return to the main menu without quiting the game, and his was annoying in doms I.

[PDF]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

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Originally posted by PDF:
Well, I rather have many gripes with the new UI..
The game looks much much better now than Dom1, but overall I don't find the interface has been made much easier for the moment (but Ok I still have some adaptation time to get )

I agree on
- Dark background needed for identification of units - will try the transparency tip
- Not only unit stats should be aligned, but also Province stats..
Plus I have :
- Why has r-click been disabled to exit menus/windows ? Now I have either to scroll dooooooooooooown the spell list to click Exit button, or keep a finger near the Esc key..
- The hotkey list (key "?") should be accessible directly from the main screen - having to search what is the hotkey for the list kills the whole idea :eek !
- When typing keyboard isn't properly mapped but hardcoded in QWERTY mode - a pqin when you hqve q French keyboqrd Names have no Capitals either .. too bad for a Pretender God (a pretender god is way much feeble)
- There's no way to know from the main screen how many units your commanders have under their command ? (previous Shift-s key) ?
- Please make a real "end turn" button that ends turn in a click, and not 3 ! I know this has been done to have the same procedures in SP and MP, but frankly it's a bad idea.
99.99% of TBS games have a different "Save" and "Next Turn" buttons, why not have that ? This a real step backwards from Dom1 in SP (and whatever MP fans may say, 90%+ of players of any TBS only play SP..)

The r-click was removed as it seemed to be confusing to newbies. Now r-click is an info-click so to speak. We did like the old thing, but it was something that people complained about.

'?' availability seems like a good idea.

Keyboard things are beyond my knowledge.

Hmm, on the save thing. JK is probably pro as he didnt want to remove hotseat mode in the first place.

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About the r-click in Dom1, I honestly thinks that what was "unfriendly" to new players is that it was the ONLY way to exit, and not a standard one !
Now that there is standard "exit" buttons, r-click would only be a welcome additionnal easy shortcut to exit ... better than Esc key

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by PDF:
About the r-click in Dom1, I honestly thinks that what was "unfriendly" to new players is that it was the ONLY way to exit, and not a standard one !
Now that there is standard "exit" buttons, r-click would only be a welcome additionnal easy shortcut to exit ... better than Esc key

I liked right-click exit. But it was unfamiliar... I don't like scrolling down a menu to find the exit button. Every exitable menue should have a big "X in a Square" in the upper-right corner, where you click to exit.

[licker]

What I don't like about the r-click is that when you r-click to exit, but your cursor is ontop of some thing with a pop-up you get the damn pop-up.

Its better now (Dom2) than it was. Its not that hard to step on esc, believe me after a few hours of game play you probably won't even notice what you're doing

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by licker:
What I don't like about the r-click is that when you r-click to exit, but your cursor is ontop of some thing with a pop-up you get the damn pop-up.

Its better now (Dom2) than it was. Its not that hard to step on esc, believe me after a few hours of game play you probably won't even notice what you're doing

You're so self-centered!!! What about all the one-handed gamers? Seriously, there are one-handed gamers, but even more people that like to play (conveniently) without having to learn any keyboard commands.

[licker]

Heh, keyboard commands? You mean like when it says enter god name they want a little keyboard on the screen so that they can click on the letters ala the arcades?

Hotkeys is one thing, the use of 'esc' as a general back up or close window is so ingraned in every computer game I've ever played I can't see it being lumped in with hot keys...

One handed gamers indeed! I don't care about catering to the minority, just get a damn prostethsis already!!!

PS. If my sense of humor leaves you flat, grow the hell up

PPS. No one handed gamers were injured in the posting of this post.

PPPS. They may have been injured upon reading it though...