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  1. It's not the size, it's the positioning.

    If they centered the background image, it would look atractive at any resolution. Left-positioning it as it is obscures the best parts of the image at any browser size that isn't very wide. It's a bad design decision.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
    And the average person doesn't spend most of their time on fluid-width forums anyway, and the discussion was sparked by the size of a background image on a site that isn't fluid-width either.
    It was directly related. My original point was gearing that image to work best on 1680 resolutions was weird, if they were going to choose a size.

    But let's not circle all the way back.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zamuel View Post
    Dare I ask Hamster, but which AT do you think should have had the Stalker's power and which power do you think Stalkers should have instead?

    10 to 1 odds Hamster says Stalkers should be completely barred from the Task Force in it's entirety.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
    The optimal line width is relative to the size of the text, the distance the text is from the eye, and the preference and experience of the person reading it.
    Right, but especially on a fluid-width forum, where there's still lots of room dedicated specifically to the content of the post, and you have rather long chunks of text. This forum, for example, is at a 10pt font size. That's rather small for such a long viewing area. On a 1680 screen, the readable post area is ~1280 pixels, equaling roughly 137 picas... which is a fair bit larger than a recommended reading width of 18-24 picas for a 10pt font (which is what would seem to be the width of the textarea for posting is).

    Anyway, we could probably talk round and round on this. All I'm saying is that to the average person, maximizing a fluid-width forum is probably going to be uncomfortable to read over long periods of time. Everyone has their own thresholds for things though, and there isn't any one right or wrong way. I was speaking more in terms of generalities.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
    I guess the same way I don't get a headache playing the game on fullscreen and looking back and forth at my powers, the chat, my target, etc.. or the same way people with lower resolution screens don't get a headache by scrolling back and forth on the same webpages (the physical screen size is the same, and the eye doesn't move any differently.. if anything, it moves slower on higher resolution because there is more text per line.).

    As for newspaper columns.. I don't think it has anything to do with eyestrain. The narrow line width makes shorter articles easier to manage so they aren't only one or two lines across the full page, and so the paper can still be easily read in a folded state. It reduces white-space at the end of paragraphs and maximizes on the amount of content/ads they can put on each page. Books aren't written like that.

    If you are straining your eye when you look from one side of the screen to the other.. then YOU ARE TO CLOSE!


    Actually, no, that's not correct. Comparing reading to playing the game isn't accurate either, as the eye strain specifically occurs when reading.

    Some light reading on legibility, eye fatigue, etc.


    Anyway, that's above and beyond what this thread is about.
  6. How do you not get a headache scrolling your eyes so much back and forth on fluid-width sites? The human eye isn't meant to scroll that far without causing strain. It's why books and magazines and stuff have narrower line widths.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
    Indeed, the image is 1640x1050.
    My monitor's native resolution is 1680x1050.
    Same, but I never have my browser window maximized. I don't know that many people with large resolutions that do, really.
  8. It seems geared to 1680 width monitors to get the full effect. Strange they'd go with that resolution as the optimal.
  9. SuckerPunch

    so CO is out

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by NIGHT_RUNNER View Post
    And why did they even bother to create it, as CoX exists?

    This is a dumb question, rhetorical or not.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SuckerPunch View Post
    Ok, first Task Force Tuesday will be the Dr. Khan Task Force.

    Tuesday, September 8, 2009. 8:30PM
    • Levels 45-50
    • Min team of 4
    • 5 missions
    • Worth 20 merits


    Current Participants:
    1. Polaris - MA/WP Scrapper
    2. Penny
    3. MedievalPower
    4. Mental Giant
    5. SHamster
    6. P-Dude
    7. Peppercat
    8. EB as a maybe
    Updated! Rubicon probably won't join for this one so we had an extra spot.



    Quote:
    What time zone is this going to be? EST?
    Always EST.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SuckerPunch View Post
    Ok, first Task Force Tuesday will be the Dr. Khan Task Force.

    Tuesday, September 8, 2009. 8:30PM
    • Levels 45-50
    • Min team of 4
    • 5 missions
    • Worth 20 merits


    Current Participants:
    1. Polaris - MA/WP Scrapper
    2. Penny
    3. MedievalPower
    4. Mental Giant
    5. SHamster
    6. P-Dude
    7. Peppercat
    8. EB as a maybe
    Reminder, this is tomorrow night!
  12. SuckerPunch

    Aion

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Baryonic_Cell View Post
    All I ask is that the Goon Squad/Something Awful gang don't try to make a nuisance of themselves in Aion, LOL. Hope to see some old friends in the new world, cheers!
    Goons are definitely playing, but it's not primarily the CoH Goons from what I understand.

    They're far, far worse :smug:
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mental_Giant View Post
    Put me down for something, Pol.
    Done!
  14. SuckerPunch

    Forum style?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake View Post
    heroes, i really like the color blue.
    Yeah, this exactly. Although I'm tempted to mess around with creating my own style because I'm not a huge fan of the defaults here.
  15. Ok, first Task Force Tuesday will be the Dr. Khan Task Force.

    Tuesday, September 8, 2009. 8:30PM
    • Levels 45-50
    • Min team of 4
    • 5 missions
    • Worth 20 merits


    Current Participants:
    1. Polaris - MA/WP Scrapper
    2. RubiconX
    3. Penny
    4. MedievalPower
    5. Mental Giant
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Suzumebachi View Post
    As far as I know it never ran on top of the game in Vista (my mate complained non-stop about this after migrating from XP to Vista) and the same with Windows 7 (I'm running WIn7 x64 RC and never managed to get it to sit over the game window)

    This might be different if you run the game windowed, I don't know - I always run full-screen. The application itself runs just fine.
    Ah right, I actually do remember this. If you run the game full-screen in Vista, the overlay won't appear. If you run it windowed (which I did on Windows), it will overlay fine.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MedievalPower View Post
    First one will be this coming Tuesday, the 8th? I'll join.
    Yep, and awesome!


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by PennyPA
    If I16 hits, you going to set to master conditions?
    I could, but I don't have much luck not dying... and I've never run it so there's that too. If we want to try for it, I'd be game though!


    So Khan sounds good for you guys?
  18. I haven't tried to run CoH (and by extension, HeroStats) on my Windows 7 laptop, but perhaps the advice Skip (developer for HS) gives for Vista will help?

    http://herostats.org/release-notes.h...wn_Issue_Vista

    Other than that, short of making sure you have the right .NET packages installed, and uninstalling/reinstalling HeroStats afterwards, I'm not sure.
  19. Since Voo is hanging up his Tuesday TFs, I figured it sounds like a fun tradition and I would love to run something similar.

    I figure every Tuesday, around 8:30 - 9:00, I'll run a TF. Pretty simple!

    Any suggestions for what the first one would be? I'm thinking the Khan TF, since I haven't run it yet, but I'm open.


    Here's a handy list for the Hero-side TFs.

    I'll post links to the current week's TF details here in the OP (I'm assuming no limit to post editing on the new boards? I hope!)


    9/8/2008 - Dr. Khan Task Force
  20. SuckerPunch

    Forum Reputation

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Donna_ View Post
    2 Red rep for offering a light hearted response in an open forum.

    You guys are really nice, thanks.

    Edited to add :

    Forum Reputation 09-04-2009 03:45 PM Here's a third. You're welcome




    *sigh* - shame this game is full of w*nkers :/

    And this is what I meant by it being ripe for abuse. ( I didn't down-rep you, for what it's worth )
  21. SuckerPunch

    Forum Reputation

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm View Post
    I downrepped you all for participating in yet another forum rep thread. lol
    Well aren't you edgy and exciting!
  22. SuckerPunch

    Forum Reputation

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Donna_ View Post
    It makes people think before they post.

    No, no it really doesn't.

    I'm not anti-rep, I think it can be fun. But it's really not useful for much of anything since it's ripe for abuse.
  23. SuckerPunch

    SuckerPunch

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
    Oh thank the (various comic-book) gods!

    Welcome back!

    Haha, thanks! I'm kind of surprised by the support I've received since coming back. I kind of figured people would have abandoned the old Planner ages ago. It's what, 7 issues behind?
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    I guess that's why I don't get paid for my programs yet

    I make it simple for me and screw anyone else if they want features.
    Yeah, the first version of my online planner (man, that was nearly 4 years ago!) was very much a "for-me" type deal. I was a bit slow on the uptake that I had to make it easy for as many people as possible, and not take for granted that just because I understand how to do it, everyone else should too!

    These realizations while working on the old Planner are actually what veered my career path away from back-end development and started me focusing more on user-interface and "front-end" coding. It's unfortunate that the existing online planner showcases what I could do 4 years ago* :P

    * (But I'm working on fixing this!)
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    I'd think that'd be the first thing someone would try. Why dumb it down?
    I actually had several conversations with Mids before he left the game about UI stuff. One of the things he was going to change in his UI overhaul was making this functionality more apparent. It's really a "mystery-meat" type of thing and isn't immediately obvious, even after being told what to do.

    First rule of UI (and a great book) - Don't make your users think!