SE V demo Interface

LordAxel · #1 September 16th, 2006, 09:27 PM

Not sure if it was a bug but my first battle my ship would refuse to move toward the enemy. May have been bc i didnt set a strategy when i built it but then i couldnt ad one after. i had to physically move the ship by clicking near the enemy, clicking on it would cause my ship to turn and run.

StarShadow · #2 September 16th, 2006, 09:38 PM

In my opinion the UI needs an overhaul, so many things are either completely unintuitive, or takes more 'work' to do. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but retro-fitting seems to be a prime example. It seems to be impossible to retrofit multiple ships at the same time, also.

Suicide Junkie · #3 September 16th, 2006, 10:16 PM

It is definitely not just you.

Santiago · #4 September 16th, 2006, 11:11 PM

I agree it needs an early overhaul already.

If looking at the entire system- you can barely see ships.

Way too much clicking everywhere.

The windows at the bottom seem to be taking up too much screen real estate.

Being able to lock the rotate and zoom with the mouse would be most helpful and also it does not seem to be much of a zoom as it is moving in and out.

Atrocities · #5 September 17th, 2006, 12:38 AM

You won't find one person amoung the "group" that will disagree with you regarding UI issues. The focus has been on bug fixes and getting the features to work, and balance, not UI improvments. However now that the Demo is out and the Fan feed back is coming in, perhaps the focus will now be shifted a bit toward improving the UI and its functionality.

AMF · #6 September 17th, 2006, 02:33 AM

Having had an entire night and much of today at work to think about the game, I have come to a painful conclusion:

There are a lot of little problems. Most of them I could probably power through and just be constantly annoyed by. There are, however, two overwhelming problems that I can't get past:

1) The main window UI needs to be fixed.
2) The ship design UI needs to be fixed.

I can go into detail on what I mean, if needed. But until these UI issues are fixed, the game is, to me, not viable and I WILL NOT be buying it.

If those things are fixed, then I'll buy the game immediately (and then, being an annoyingly critical S0B, I'll press for all the other problems to be fixed...)

I really can't see playing it with the UI as is.

Thanks,

AMF

Mephisto · #7 September 17th, 2006, 09:13 AM

AMF, I think it is save to say that us beta testers are not surprised by this conclusion.

Gandalf Parker · #8 September 17th, 2006, 11:19 AM

Im just generally unhappy. Im forcing myself to continue playing the SEV demo to try and give it a fair chance but I feel pulled back to my SEIV game. So far Im really wanting an SE 4.5 with 4's graphics and some of 5's features.