Hate the new research screen.

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Hate the new research screen.

Postby bjg » Sun Jan 15, 2017 6:10 pm

The new research screen is too transparent. Hard to read, hard to concentrate.

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Re: Hate the new research screen.

Postby sven » Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:21 pm

bjg wrote:The new research screen is too transparent. Hard to read, hard to concentrate.


We've tweaked the opacities of the background pane in r19274.

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Re: Hate the new research screen.

Postby bjg » Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:08 pm

Don't see the real improvements.

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Re: Hate the new research screen.

Postby zakblood » Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:21 pm

could maybe do with a tab more imo also, makes it hard to see everything and read it with the underneath bleeding through so much
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not that it's my place either to comment, i'm only here to test, so maybe my thoughts and impressions are over stepping the marks as to say :ugeek:

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Re: Hate the new research screen.

Postby Ashbery76 » Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:25 pm

That is horrible.Change it back or even better add a proper tech tree. :D

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Re: Hate the new research screen.

Postby sven » Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:38 pm

zakblood wrote:could maybe do with a tab more imo also, makes it hard to see everything and read it with the underneath bleeding through so much


Thanks for the screenshot. Arioch and I have been testing on smaller (50-80) star maps, and the background does indeed show through quite a bit more when you've got a hugely dense 500 star map. As we keep saying, 500 star maps aren't really the playstyle we're designing the game around, but, increasing the opacities a bit more to keep the screens readable for players on those kinds of maps seems reasonable enough.

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Re: Hate the new research screen.

Postby Arioch » Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:42 pm

Ashbery76 wrote:That is horrible.Change it back or even better add a proper tech tree. :D

While there's an argument to made that it should be less transparent, it has always been this way. Check the live version on Steam if you don't believe me.

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Re: Hate the new research screen.

Postby bjg » Mon Jan 16, 2017 6:45 pm

sven wrote:500 star maps aren't really the playstyle we're designing the game around, but, increasing the opacities a bit more to keep the screens readable for players on those kinds of maps seems reasonable enough.

The map size doesn't matter in this case. I don't zoom out, but there are still enough objects (stars, ships, course lines) on the background to make the science screen a puzzle. BTW, opacity wont help if there is nothing to apply it to (left size, specially bottom left).


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