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People seem to argue a lot over square/circular map windows. It would be nice if we could right click the map window and get an option to change between the two.
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I would like to use single-click on buff/debuff/targeteffects/impliedtargeteffects icon to open spell effect examine window; or even /examine_debuff #number commands to bind it to macro. And non-sizeable effect examine window is nuisance with SF size of descriptive text.
Also, how about implementing a filter to buff/debuff/etc windows (or new "filtered" window to show only crucial effects on me)? And maybe you can make buff/debuff/etc windows to act like maintained_spells one, with text decriptions and timers. And maybe set them to not to collapse on effect falling, I mean sometime it's very hard to target specific buff on myself or on my target to examine, because buffs are constantly a-changing, and list of effects is a-dancing, and brains of myself are a-sploding. Well, that perhaps will require removing of current limit of 30 icons (and that may hurt the fps and latency I fear) Just my 3.62 roubles. |
I will wash your car, I will paint your house, I'll walk the dog for a month if you'll make an anchor for the Tooltip window, so that I can move the Tooltip window somewhere else on the screen. That way I can have the Tooltip window pop up somewhere other than right ON my quickbar.
For those of us that have our quickbars at the bottom of the screen, or under our toons feet, it pretty much drives us crazy that whenever you hover a spell/CA/whatever on your quickbar, the damn Tooltip pops up and covers up pretty much your toon, the mobs your fighting, etc. Not really a convenient thing when fighting for your life. Only you can stop "Death by Tooltip". Sadly, I've had to turn off the Tooltips on my quickbar as a result of this (the options available for transparency, and delaying the popup itself definitely don't cut it). That seems like a bad thing to me; that I have to turn off Tooltips on my quickbar. |
Non-showable windows
There's a few windows that aren't showable via F10 or keystrokes: the melee attack bar, the cast bar, the pop-up message window, the HO window. The only way to get them visible to move them around is to do some action and catch them while the game shows them. I'd dearly love some way to make them simply show up when I use F10 to toggle all window backgrounds on. Reason I want to move them? I'm trying to group all the things I need to watch during a fight close together so I don't have to move my eyes as much to keep track of various timings (eg. do I have time enough on my current auto-attack cycle for another CA, has the queued-up spell started to cast so it's safe to queue up another one and which ones are up or about to come up).
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PLEASE please consider a quest slot for quest items, most other MMO's have this feature. It sucks to have 180 slots to have to look for that one quest item you need that very second!! Maybe a quest box or something that holds 6 quest items.
Timers on maintained effects like reactives would be super useful. I'm one of those weirdos that uses the stock UI for almost everything including click to cure (yes I'm the one who PMed everyone to get the click to cures on the stock UI fixed, TY again for that fix). |
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The popups are pretty annoying on toolbars at the bottom, especially the Master Strike one. :p A tooltip anchor would be amazing. Along those same lines, one of the big features of EQII encounters is learning and responding to the detrimental effects placed on the character during battle. As it stands now, the only way I know to catch the effects for study is to wait for each of them to land, hover the cursor over it, wait for the tooltip delay, hope the effect doesn't expire, then get a screenshot (and hope I don't wipe the raid while doing all this). Would it be possible to have a right-click >> Examine for detrimental effects that pops up each description in a separate persistent examine window, similar to examining anything else in the game? This way we could go through an encounter, capture all the effects safely, and review/screenshot them afterward. |
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So far I like the changes that have been mentioned. I know my focus is a little narrow but I am concerned about my tradeskill mod and these new changes. I guess I'll have to dust off the UI designer :)
One question I do have is, has the Rush Order timer been provided as DynamicData yet? Since the change to multiple quest tracking, this feature has been broken in all the tradeskill mods. |
If you're really looking for consolidation, Spell Effects / Vs Maintained window would be a good place to start. The display of buffs in this game has always been inelegant.
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Any chance we can get "Advanced" options for the Player, Group and Raid windows that would provide ClickCure and ClickAbilities similar to those found in Fetish?
I understand the need to keep things simple for new users, but I think most players of support classes would agree, these features are almost mandatory for the higher end content the bulk of the subscriber base is dealing with. While the custom solutions are workable, there's stuff we simply can't achieve in a user-friendly way. It would be great if players could drag/drop spells/macros in-game to configure ClickCure and ClickAbility bars, and have these settings saved on a per character basis. All that's required to pull this off is a new configuration window with assignable slots (similar to hotbar slots), code to save those in the settings file, and some UI switches added to the various windows to show/hide the extra buttons. I'd also like to propose a scheme for enableing modifier keys to be used in script. Provide boolean dynamicData elements that track Ctrl, Shift, and Alt key downs. Sample of how this would be used... Code:
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Just three words.
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I really appreciate Rothgar's post and the new stuff looks interesting. The flood of ideas is great I just hope Rothgar doesn't get drown by them.
As for Jehcan's three words, may I shorten it to just two "MOUSE CURSOR". At least give us the ability to select a cursor from a collection. I hate losing the cursor in the background. Yes I'm a mouse clicker. My fingers just don't react like they use to and typing is getting more and more difficult. A tip of my hat to the folks at SOE who have created a really cool game. The only one I play. And a bow to all you folk who create these marvelous mods that makes the game even more fun. All, please keep up the wonderful work. |
My guild leader often complains about the mouse curser as well. he is an older gent with fading eyesight so some curser options to help him out would be a warm welcome. I think size and color would do the trick nicely. :)
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=( must say I'm disappointed about the clock.
I never use the minimap (have no use for it) but keep the clock up because it's the easiest way for me to keep up with in and out of game time.No one else in my household uses the minimap for anything either but all of us keep up the clock. I hope you are leaving us a way to get the time seperate at least even if its by making changes using the UI builder. I do like the character window though. Looking forward to the patch to test so I can check everything out first hand. |
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Well test day has come and having logged into the game via test I can say I'm not likely to stay in game :( Unless modders are really able to make things work the way we've grown custom to I feel some of these changes just drives players away. The xp bar is so ugly I thought I logged into WoW. There is now 3 bottom bars for some unknown reason when I log in. Yes I use ProfitUI with an older xp bar that I have been able to keep for sometime. There apparently are a lot of changes in the Maintained window making Profits Right Aligned window useless and probally will be hard to update so I have the abiltity to click off a buff as I was able to in catalyst version of Profit. The profie window is also dang ugly.
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When I logged in I had 1 bottom bar and the xp bar(top bar) had moved to the bottom as well. I just put it back where it went and it was fine. No need to see the monstrosity that is the default bar. Silat |
Really dislike the bottom bar as well, far too huge and unattractive. The menu buttons placed onto it also seem completely redundant to me - that's what the start menu button is for. Not a fan of the overall redness of the windows, either. I've grown very accustomed to Vex skin Dragowulf created.
I do like the new minimap though, it would be nice to be able to specify the location of the titlebar and clock, though. As it is right now it's impossible to have it flush with any corner but the bottom right. Going to hope someone is able to modify the clock portion to show something other than the night/day image (perhaps place the actual time - ie: 05:30PM or 17:30 - somewhere on the map or below it). The rounded icons are probably my favorite addition to the interface, I think they look very sharp. Hotbars especially, they look fantastic rounded (and spinner hidden, of course). |
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Just a quick little follow up to my "being able to anchor the Tooltip wherever you want" thing (sorry, last post, I promise). Just wanted to kinda demonstrate how much the current UI really sucks in this area, and how happy I think alot of people would be with a change in the direction of the bottom (modified) screenshot.
This (a Tooltip that covers up my toon, the battle, the middle of the screen!) pretty much makes me want to punch myself in the balls rather than play the game with Knowledge Tooltips enabled on the quickbars:: As compared to something like this, which would probably bring a tear to my eye after waiting all these years for it. A Tooltip anchor that could be like unlocked and moved around the screen like any other window, so that I could move the extremely helpful and core part of a game like this, to a different location on the screen: Again sorry, I'll try to stop harping on this. |
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