Skill system: It's laggy and too small, having a hard time placing IP. I dont like the layout of it either. WTB Old one back
Map: Ok I guess, but too big and bulky with the "Mission" buttons etc... WTB Old one back
The new mouse scroll behaviour: tbh, this is complete BS! WTB Old behaviour back
so, to sum it all up...
WTB Old GUI back (why fix it if it aint broken)
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This is hella annoying. I play in locked 3rd person mode. And while the zoom works, holding left mouse button to look around does not work. Now everytime i accidently zoom into 1st person, i zoom out again, and then find myself staring at my char from the front. Wich then means i gotta use the keyboard to readjust.
And how am i supposed to scroll my gigantic programms window in the sidebar now ffs???
Make this optional!
Did 2 mock-up images of the skill UI changes I'd really like to see (suggested in this post) ...
* I didn't stick to the "real" colors that would have resulted from the original image (of unknown origin, I couldn't take my own shot while the servers were down), as there were no green skills in that capture.
* #2 changes skill names to bold white, and bar colors to the color of the skill
* #3 also uses the color in the name of the skill (JPG conversion muted some of the colors)
(personally I prefer #2, but either is a big improvement to my aging eyes ... and I know they wouldn't look exactly like this, its just a framework)
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Skill GUI can be adjusted, and probably will based on feedback.
Map window you can remove buttons if you don't want them.
The new scroll is somewhat annoying for those using only 3rd person I guess. Should be optional.
Old GUI was broken, that's why it's now fixed.
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WTB old one back, we're all used to this now, don't force feed us to use this new one or give us a choice old gui/new gui, that isn't clear as crystal like the old one plain and simple, i hate the idea you have many sub menus and all this new fancy menu thing and the display of IP you have isn't exactly well done either with 200000 instead of 200,000, Maybe we can learn to love it.. also i experience lag when opening it like when i press F10 to open other menus.
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Does the issue with the windows losing placement becuase of custom GUIs have anything to do with the skill window not staying tacked? Just curious...
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If you all haven't heard by now the reason they made the skill and map window so crappy is because they were the two things remaining from the original AO GUI, I don't see any need for these to be modified, like has been said, it wasn't broken, and noone cares to update or skin it.
The new ones are less user friendly, and cmon, for those of you whining about shift clicking, if you've played long enough, you know what does what.
And for those of you that say wow the skill now shows your buffed, it always did that, noone just ever payed attention.
It doesn't lag for me I have no problems with them, but they suck, plain and simple, and I know I'm not the only one that dislikes it, there has to be a way to make it so we can change it back whenever we want, I know that you guys are updating this to bring more people to the game, but your just making everything easier on them, your making the challenge less.
Lets be realistic, there was nothing wrong with them other than they were old, they didn't lag, they didn't have bugs.
Now they are new and lag, and are full of bugs, don't fix something that isn't broken, TRUST me, it doesn't work out.
why why why don't people understand FC aint gonna support 2 different GUI's no matter how many times its posted...no matter how many times its driven into the ground with dozens of posts since SL
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The candle wasn't broke, why the hell did we invent lightbulbs.
Horse and carts worked damn fine, get rid of cars please.
You're not getting the old GUI back, the new GUI is better in many ways, the new GUI can become even better if you make Constructive posts about exactly what you do and don't like.
Kthxbai
Edit:Of course, screw all the new players who don't know exactly what does what. We know so everyone else is SOL
Last edited by Telcea; Aug 29th, 2006 at 19:32:11.
can i get a hell yeah?
yeah... whew!
also, it would really suck if EVERY TUESDAY there were 8 solid hours of downtime....
oh WAIT.
dear god, people who threaten Blizzard-defection are mind-throttlingly boring.
Doesn't address wanting it up -while- doing things like the old GUI.
I allowed for this option in my post ... as in having a 3rd toggle state to go to small icons like before. I even made it note that I knew they could be turned off.You can turn the buttons of through the i menu, though personally I'd prefer them returning the old buttons.
Scanning messages for bits you want to counter without reading the whole thing is badBut I appreciate the pointer about the custom skin.
pwnt! reverted to the original GUI.Sill posted saying that this was an issue with cxustom GUI's I believe, there's a sticky about it.
Having an option to do it manually, or at least when you've centered on a mission/shop, would still be mucho appreciato (probably not a word).Last I heard, this can be turned of simply by scrolling the map in any direction
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Maeventura: "Sigh, once again I can but only bow for hyde's wisdom."
....• "Social" keys, lightbars, wen-wens......• Better tabbing!
... First Troxdoc with QL300 symbs (AO 17.0 pre-Albtraum guide) ... as well as first with 12 of 13 Alpha symbs.
... First TL1 Clanner with Omni-Armed Forces armor (pics) (pointless yet hawt)
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I totally agree on this, couldn't have said it better myself.
Leave the skillwindow as it was please, thank you.
It's still usuable while in minimised view, so you can just stick it in a corner and continue doing whatever you were doing while spedning IP.
telcia and vlain u 2 really sound like the only 2 who actually like this new crap if u cant stand the posts bog off and read the news
Wether you like it or not isn't going to effect sod all I'm afraid. This is the new GUI and you're stuck with it. If you can't handle that then "bog off and read the news"
Despite my championing of the new GUI, I *do* agree with this, I often spend IP or play with possibilities while running a long way to somewhere, or looking through my bank or whatever.
Rather than requesting the old GUI back, which really truly is *not* going to happen, let's think of ways to retain the excellent changes that have been made while making that old functionality possible again. I'd like to see the transparency of the skill window customizable in the same way as the borderless chat windows are currently -- provided the color scheme is improved somewhat and the text hopefully enlarged.
I never said I totally like it...I just know that whining to bring the old GUI is completely futile. If you (or anyone else) haven't figured that out in the last 3 years of GUI updates then I truly pity you.
If you want to see improvements the only avenue open to you is to suggest improvments to the new one.
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Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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hehe, sorry to let ya know guys, even thought new gui is horrid, the Devs don't care. On the test server it was addressed for over a month on how aweful it was and all they could say was, sorry it can't go back.
I am not sure which dev was sitting around thinking "let's make the game look like it belongs on an Amiga" but they did and we are stuck with it.
I was always under the impression patches were upgrades, but someone in the FC dev team thinks differently.
I do like the functions of the new IP GUI, I just wish they would have mixed those functions in to the old IP GUI or made one more sci-fi looking, instead of Ford Pinto looking.
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Just thought I'd also mention that just because not many people are posting here that they LIKE the new GUI, doesn't mean no one does.
Who the hell goes to a forum to compliment something? Pfft, yeah right
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