Revert the search window color changes


Memphis_Bill

 

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Seriously, I have no idea what most of these colors mean. I don't understand why I needed any more information than "on a team" and "not on a team." All the extra colors do is confuse when there's no key or legend in-game. The only marginally useful color was the purple "leader of a team" color, and even that's unnecessary with the /ttl command. Can we have it back the way it was, when I knew what stuff meant?


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Would require more art time and UI work, reverting is easier.


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Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
Would require more art time and UI work, reverting is easier.
Right. Because you've seen the code and know exactly what it would take, versus, oh, a "help" dialog and/or help system listing with the info.


 

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With proper source control reverting is always easier than making something new, because old code is never discarded, just archived.


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Or, they could keep the system that has features requested before, and add a little [?] box in the corner like they have for the other options that explains the colors. Or add it, again, to the "Help" system (you know, the one under "Options?") which would not require getting rid of what they've done already.


 

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That assumes what they've made is good. From my perspective they just fixed what wasn't broken.

The colors are also misleading. After looking up the colors like I always have to do, I found that yellow is supposed to mean a person can't be invited bercause they're on a mission. Only thing is, it doesn't differentiate between people on missions solo or on teams, so I have no way of knowing who I should send tells to. Before the change, people were either on a team or not, I didn't need a special color to tell me they were in a mission because all I had to do was look slightly to the right of their name to see their zone was "On mission map." Adding that new color just complicated things.

The whole overhaul seems to have been done by someone who had no idea what someone trying to form a team needs to know.


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I like Bill's Idea only because it would be a 'quick fix'

Personally, I'd just like there to be a little box right after the name of a person that is either checked or not. If it is, they are in a group, if not, they are free to be invited.

I'd also like for there to be a way to see which people you've chatted with within the last, lets say, 10 minutes. I get paranoid when I'm going down the list that I've asked the same person twice whether or not he would like to join my team/TF.


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Ammo switching for Dual Pistols was my idea:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=135484