SE5: GUI design discussion..

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Well, just about any console game, simply because they can't be patched

Oh, you're quick SJ! I can tell you like to think outside the box, and that's a very good thing!

Cheers!

[Fyron]

Dazzle them with an over abundance of useless eye-candy and they will be drawn to it like a moth to flame!" and another phrase that can be extruded from the current industry is "Gameplay is a thing of the past, leave it to the archioligists and retro-gammers."

This is the opposite of everything MM has ever done.

Also there should be several "main-screens", as someone already have suggested.
1: Building view (or something). Shows the system (without ships) and have information about all facilities and construction going on ( I especially miss an easy available list of systemwide facilities).
2: Movement view (or something). Shows ships and waypoints ++. Easy access to fleet information, easy navigation between systems.
3: Colonization View
4: ?

That would be bad and would create much unnecessary clutter.

[ February 24, 2003, 00:30: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[primitive]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
That would be bad and would create much unnecessary clutter.[/QB]

And why would that clutter Fyron ?
Do you ever give ship orders and construction orders at the same time ?

Too separate the screens will free up space to make valuable information available. To push a button to toggle between screens is really not a whole lot of work.

[Fyron]

It would clutter because it would require extra interface and extra work to get the same information.

[primitive]

If done correctly, It would be less work to get information. Not just a little, but a lot.
There would be space available to put all that information you now need to collect from 3-4 winduws an pull-down menues right in front of you.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
In support of this theory, I dare you to name a single game that has been released in the past 5 years that has not had a patch released following the release of the game.

Starlancer

[Fyron]

Originally posted by primitive:
If done correctly, It would be less work to get information. Not just a little, but a lot.
There would be space available to put all that information you now need to collect from 3-4 winduws an pull-down menues right in front of you.

Only if you take space away from the maps, which is bad.

The colonization option that you proposes makes 0 sense. How would it be different than the Movement one?