Hating the new market interface so far...

I am just going to flat out say that I hate the new UI. It does nothing for me and takes away a bunch of the enjoyment of marketeering for me. I really liked the old UI and how when I bought something I knew instantly because it changed colors. Now i have to remember how many things I have in the bought tab so I know if it goes up. A pure waste as far as I am concerned. And ditto to all the other bad things previously mentioned.

Give me back my old interface please.

-Gitch

What happened to the - 'right click for info/details' - functionality?

Am I missing something here, Because I previously used that a lot, now it seems to be gone... and that sucks.

It also seems to lack the ability to mouse-wheel scroll up & down thru the upper left panel = the tiny arrows STILL suck!

The lines/grab points for the adjustable windows are easy to miss and seem tiny as well.

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Originally Posted by UberGuy Case in point for the market - when I add something to the market, it appears at the bottom of the list. If my list is longer than my market window (and it almost always is) then I have to scroll down to see the new addition. If I then click on the addition, which I have to do if I want to do anything more with it, then it expands, and it is now taller than it was before. Once again, I have to scroll down to see the whole entry.

What he said.


FWIW, Some of the problems I'm having with this New UI - Can be 'worked around' - using a combination of the directional keys and the mouse. But this requires swapping back and forth from the mouse and keyboard in a manner that's... Far (from Market)-Vergnügen.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

I just tried the new interface again right now, after having tried it a few days ago.

All the scrolling sucks. There wasn't this much scrolling with old interface. I'm talking the bids, not item search.

Buttons keep getting greyed out and staying that way even if I change characters.

The last five bid history is there, but there's no record of how many are looking to buy and how many are selling.

My first impression isn't very good. I think maybe they went a little overboard with all the changes they made all at once. Whatever. Makes me not want to play. I'll come back later when they fix everything!

I've finally been able to poke around the market a bit.

The new interface seems like a mixed bag to me.

Find salvage link on recipes = great.

I like the text autocomplete.

I hate the part where whatever you bid last hangs around unless you delete it- haven't nose around to see if that can be turned off yet, but it's an absolute disaster waiting to happen, almost as ridiculous as when they launched the market without commas.

I'm not comfortable with the newly reorganized main window yet so I'll withhold judgement. It seems like it's designed more for browsing than for use by people who know what they want.

But I hated the old one so much it's hard to get that worked up. I'll fiddle around with it for a month or so and see what I think then.

Hmm, yeah this isn't just ugly, it IS also buggy. I keep dragging salvage into the interface, confirm the amount, then see it appear as stored for a half second...before it returns to my salvage inventory. Repeatedly.

One thing I do like about the new interface though is listing an IO, hitting 'find' then 'search', and bringing up the list. Very handy to compare various levels w/o dealing with the dropdowns or entering the search text.

I've been hating it for quite a while now.

I also do not like the new UI. It's clunky and laggy as heck. Stuff I bid for often disappears as soon as I put the bid up. Sometimes it comes back, sometimes it seems to not. I don't know if the bid went through or not. Many times I end up putting another up risking that I'll buy 2 of something that I only wanted 1 of.

GET RID OF THE AUTOCOMPLETE. I never use all caps, but this has me at my wits end. On a similar note, I'd like to be able to use Backspace to clear the search field when I click the field and the last entry is highlighted, like in the old UI. While I can type in the new search term, sometimes I don't have a specific term and just want to search the tree for groups of recipes or enhancers, like Defense Sets. Trying to simply empty the field after a term has been used is like pulling teeth.

I also agree with others that the vertical lists for bids are horrible. The horizontal slider was far superior and user-friendly. even if I expand certain windows in it, it won't keep for the next session. I have to keep expanding them again.

It's also so bland looking. I compare it to the old and new forums on the COX website. The old one was colorful and had visual personality. It looked like a comic book-themed UI. The new one is monochrome and clinical-looking. It has the personality of my microwave's keypad. Actually, my microwave's keypad has more color than the new UI. The colors didn't just add flavor. It made it easier to see what was going on.

It's a case of functionality being added at the cost of usability, and there were even some functions that were lost. I might accept the new UI if it retained the old visual style and horizontal slot views, but there is still the clunkiness issue.

Just like to add my own opinion of the new UI. Not a fan of it. I've tried to get used to it but I was able to do things more quickly with the old interface. Overly complicated with all the tabs on the bottom half imo but I do like the upper half where you can sort your searches. The last influence bid/post needs to go. The expanding boxes need to go unless you can close them up again or the market UI can always remember your last modification to its size/split screen adjustment. I hope the devs improve it in a patch within the next month or so and do not wait to add it as a QoL feature in the next Issue.

You know, I was gonna say I've gotten a little bit used to the new interface, and while it's way slower than the old for doing most things, I could at least live with it. But no, crap's broken again. I can't "Get" anything now. Oh wait, the "Post" button is greyed out too. Ugh.

Another complaint: why is it when you try to "Find" an item, but you have your level filter set to something else, it can't automatically fix your level filter? So if I was previously looking for only lvl 32 (min 32, max 32, which is sometimes about the only way to find anything in the new interface), and then I want to look up a lvl 50 item I dropped in the market, it can't figure out, hey, let's reset the lvl filter to fit in the 50? Isn't that beyond obvious?

Having to unclick Autocomplete, the stupid warnings, seemingly far too often. I'm not sure if those options are toon-specific, but I could swear I already unclicked those for certain toons, but they're back up when I relog w/them later.

Oh, a stupid mistake that's 100% my fault, but wouldn't happen w/the old interface. So I "Find" a crafted IO to see what the last sales are (because the bottom interface never shows bidding/for sale figures, another bug!), and instead of typing in my prices for sale in the bottom window, I typed them in the top where the IO was "found". So I insta-bought instead of selling. Thanks. Again, my bad, but just another trap to avoid.

Like I said, I'm adjusting to the new system and all the quirks. I can get stuff done though it takes longer. I'd just be far, far happier if they gave us an option to load the old interface.

I will say that the "are you sure you want to spend a squillion inf on fees?" button has come in really handy when I move ten salvage in and it tries to sell them for 30 million each.

Tossing in my hat with the "what were they thinking?!!" crowd.

The new market UI is cumbersome. My peeves:

• It's HUGE... what? do they think I need to take up my entire screen with the market UI? I'm old, but I ain't blind! And before you say "fix your window sizes in options", I've done that. My windows are set to scale to 85%.

• It does not filter intuitively.
  • If I want to find an immobilize IO, just a regular IO enhancement, I have to type in "invention: " before the key word, or I get every "immobilize" under the freakin' sun! Used to be, if I was in the appropriate sub-category, the search would use that as a filter. That functionality is completely gone, as far as I can tell.

• I cannot view my complete inventory at a glance.
  • While the new vertical listing has a small advantage in being able to see the sale history of your items, why sacrifice the "at a glance" function of the old horizontal icons view?