Topic: Who exacly wanted these changes to lay out???

Not me :-( Gimme back my old sidebar!

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The game looks like it belongs in 2013 and not 1993 now. Yay!

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Yeah, will take a little bit to get used to but looking great! Shame I still cannot get the new map to work on my phone.. smile

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5 (edited by Carrera GT 01-Jul-2013 12:17:53)

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yeah well that's right but not everything is very clear atm... well it's better in chrome but not ie.
Also, i really miss my short cut to go to a system or a fam in my sidebar!
sidebar is gone after going to the forum, so there is no way back to the game now :-(

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I agree with you Carrera. There's so many bugs and dodgy links in this new layout. Maybe a week or 2 of testing before going live would have been a good idea.

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i dun like the colour font..change something more contrast to the background plz..

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DucksNuts wrote:

I agree with you Carrera. There's so many bugs and dodgy links in this new layout. Maybe a week or 2 of testing before going live would have been a good idea.


List them then, no use moaning, help out you bums!

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If you find any bugs, feel free to post them here!

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Ok on my computer now, is there an easy way to get out of the new map? I can't really see one...? Is the Morale Icon in the way of it? It's kind of overlapping it a little bit for me.

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If you look at the top of your sidebar on the left hand side there will be a link saying "Other", click it.

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hmm i like the layout alot !

but is there a way to input a numbers of units to build ? i mean the slide bar is cool and all, but i like round numbers and i can't seem to get it right...

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Ok, my remarks so far:
- Font is horrible. Can't see anything until you get your arrow on it
- where is the link to rankings?
- can't manually put in an ammount of fleet i want and it's impossible to get round figures
- The sidebar is gone when you go to forums soyou can't get back to the game
- I had the possibility to put system coordinat's and fam numbers in my sidebar and it would get me straight to the system/fam, but that is gone now...

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Hi all.
Overall the change has been long coming, and I am glad it's finally here. Thanks for the hard work gents. It does look good.
My overall feel for it, is that it's good but there is a couple things that are hard on the eyes.

-The biggest one for me, the left menu is very difficult to read against the background. I think there should perhaps be a semi-opaque background against the text. Perhaps my eyes are just getting rusty. The gray text in general is difficult to read against the vibrant background image.

-Unit creation/assignment scrollbars are fantastic, but It's hard to get an exact number with it, the number display should be changed to a changeable input field that can be modified manually.

-There is no way to navigate (without using the "back" button) away from the map because the menu bar dissapears. I know this has been like that even on the old UI, but it does interrupt the flow.

-I'm glad we lost the Microsoft Clipart for many of the actions. +10 points for this alone smile

More of a question, with all the overhaul of the UI, are we going to see an update of the unit and planet artwork to match the new UI? The black boxes around the units detracts from the overall feel.

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Carrera GT

Carrera GT wrote:

Font is horrible

Can you elaborate on why you think the font is horrible? I get you are saying you can't see anything until you get your arrow over it, I'm not having any troubles seeing things so I was wondering why.

Carrera GT wrote:

Where is the link to rankings?

Top bar, Information, Current Rankings

Carrera GT wrote:

Can't manually ut in an amount of fleet

Several people have mentioned this now, and it has been mentioned to Stefan

Carrera GT wrote:

The sidebar is gone when you go to forums

Up the top of your forums you will see "Back to account". Follow the link, click on the right galaxy. Hey presto.

Carrera GT wrote:

I had the possibility to put system coordinat's and fam numbers in my sidebar and it would get me straight to the system/fam, but that is gone now

That was a feature only of the Marble sidebar to my knowledge? You also are not the first to have pointed this out, we will see what can be done.

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Artea wrote:

-There is no way to navigate (without using the "back" button) away from the map because the menu bar dissapears. I know this has been like that even on the old UI, but it does interrupt the flow.

Artea, if you are in the new map above your menu bar on the left you will see a link saying "Other". Click it, it takes you back. Have a bit of an explore big_smile

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change the text to white or something, maybe its my eyes but im struggling to read pretty much everthing

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<&Parrot> look at them legs

18 (edited by Terror of the Night 01-Jul-2013 16:41:39)

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Thanks for the new look. Here are my suggestions after a quick peek.

a) The background image is too overpowering for the font type. The translucency needs to be changed to make it less dominant.

b) The light gray lettering is difficult to read. Please change it back to solid white.

c) The font is at least two point sizes too small and also squished together. The spacing between letters needs to be increased.

d) The Galactic coin image has a solid black box around it, instead of being clipped to just the pile of coins.

e) Same issue with the graphic on the Research page as in d).

f) As in a) on the map page the background image makes the actual map near impossible to read. It is headache inducing now.

g) Kill the slider bars everywhere. Especially on the build pages. I'm anal about my buildings and troops and only want precise numbers of each. Maybe in its place, add a max build, or max send button to go along with the numeric  input.

h) The yellow voice boxes, are a bit too bright and too big. Also they overlap the type beneath them.

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19 (edited by Carrera GT 01-Jul-2013 14:54:42)

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Gwynedd wrote:

Carrera GT

Carrera GT wrote:

Font is horrible

Can you elaborate on why you think the font is horrible? I get you are saying you can't see anything until you get your arrow over it, I'm not having any troubles seeing things so I was wondering why.

- it's to bright and to small for the background to see anything properly... even worse with internet explorer

Carrera GT wrote:

Where is the link to rankings?

Top bar, Information, Current Rankings

- Not working in internet explorer, only chrome

Carrera GT wrote:

Can't manually ut in an amount of fleet

Several people have mentioned this now, and it has been mentioned to Stefan

Carrera GT wrote:

The sidebar is gone when you go to forums

Up the top of your forums you will see "Back to account". Follow the link, click on the right galaxy. Hey presto.

- didn't see that on ;-)

Carrera GT wrote:

I had the possibility to put system coordinat's and fam numbers in my sidebar and it would get me straight to the system/fam, but that is gone now

That was a feature only of the Marble sidebar to my knowledge? You also are not the first to have pointed this out, we will see what can be done.

- yeah i know but it was very usefull, same thing with the link to fam news.
If i wanna see who attacked me now i have to go to fam page, then fam news then press the link to the system and then i can see the players nw or his fam...

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cant scroll across when using the old map

<&Parrot> kangaroos are sexy though
<&Parrot> look at them legs

21 (edited by Carrera GT 01-Jul-2013 16:22:10)

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Can't use specific fam option on map
other options seem to work though.

You can chose a fam but map doesn't show the fam's systems when you do

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~*Pinwheel Forever*~ wrote:
DucksNuts wrote:

I agree with you Carrera. There's so many bugs and dodgy links in this new layout. Maybe a week or 2 of testing before going live would have been a good idea.


List them then, no use moaning, help out you bums!

Chief bum signing in.

Don't get me wrong. The new look is slick and has potential.

To make the game playable again:
Fix the font colors, and/or background panel colors.
Make it possible to type in amounts as well as use sliders on the units, spec ops, and research pages.

To make it prettier (list not exhaustive but all that comes to mind right now):
Fix the formatting of the icons at the top of the planets page.
Change the back link on the map menu to say 'Main' or 'Home'.
Make the top links, i.e. rankings, forum, etc, open in a new tab, if they can't be displayed with the side menu intact.
Fix the rankings self ID color bar.
Change those bigass yellow speech bubbles to something a little more subtle.

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The layout changes would be nice if there weren't much more important things that haven't been fixed in months or even years.  Was really an unneeded change at this point.

Also as of right now, Can't log in through my phone anymore.  When you log in with your id and password it just brings the same page up again asking for id and password.

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Arby3 wrote:

The game looks like it belongs in 2013 and not 1993 now. Yay!

hmmm...nope, but its a good try tho, I'd say it belongs to 2001  wink

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I see 2 good options:

1) gather the bugs reports (main bugs, that arent letting us play at all, no ezplo, no attak, map not working at all, etz...)
2) onze you have some main bugs gathered, klose the game for a few days and fizz the bugs, or
    option 2 ->  move bak the old kode while you arrange the new one

(just like it should have been done with the new map that we've been suffering for so long)