Bizzare UI decision

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pkoh21
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Joined: 03 May 2022, 13:57

Bizzare UI decision

Post by pkoh21 »

I might be the only person, but here are my thoughts
- clicking on the wheel spots, or on the invention card to play it, makes more sense than clicking on some icons on the side of the playboard. We are not all into analogue just saying
- when a play is illegal, please tell me why. I have learned many many games by watching Rodney Smith "watch it played". I thought this "Arnak" variant is interesting and was keen to try. I have never been so frustrated by a game and I do not know where to start.
- The UI is terrible as well, for example the mission cards do not scale properly on my widescreen monitor. I cannot see the extreme ends without shrinking the display.

Shame though, it really looks like a good game to try. As a result, I will also avoid the physical game until they revamp this implementation
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FANGsterAndy
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Joined: 21 September 2012, 19:57

Re: Bizzare UI decision

Post by FANGsterAndy »

Edit: I've added info to this they are in bold

I also agree. The UI is awful, it is really frustrating to use.

It needs tabs so you can flick between cards\main board\player board, rather than scrolling up and down!
When you are buying cards, you cannot see the panel that shows you what symbols/tokens you have. This another reason tabs would be useful

It would be better if you didn't have to select main action and could just select a spot on the wheel that is available to you. then choose which action you want to do first.

The side bar keeps partially vanishing on me and I have to F5 the page. (I'll see if a bug report has been already submitted about this) From reading the bugs, I found that this is because it scrolls when the pointer is over it and you use the mouse-wheel, it would be better to have an indication that it does scroll up and down (even if there is no need for it to scroll) On a FULL HD res there is no need for the action bar to be scrolled as it shows all the icons

I think it would be better to leave it fixed in place and only scroll if it cannot show everything due to resolution, as it also obscures getting to the how to play links as it covers them, I had to scroll the action bar out the way to get to those links. since is stays in the same place on screen no matter where you are on the page

A partial undo would be great too; When moving rats around the area, I clicked on the wrong one and had to undo the whole turn, rather than that action.
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