Update: AP Generation Banners Removed

Unknown · February 2015

Thankyou. I still don't know how someone didn't test this for about five minutes and go "nope, this is not the way to do this", but thanks anyway

Phaserhawk · February 2015

I really liked the idea, and especially for newbies it's very helpful. If it could appear at the very top and smaller to me would be ideal placement, I wonder if they could shrink the characters down but full images. Like this.

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Have your three guys vs. there's obviously and then just have a small rotate button, so when you wanted to target a different guy you tap the rotate button to put him/her in front. That frees up more space to show AP information or character stats.

JVReal · February 2015

They could also just take the Vertical AP indicators that are off screen and place them Horizontally over the health indicators, and change the health indicators from Plus signs to straight bars to take up less space making room for the Horizontal AP counts.

rkd80 · February 2015

I am glad this is being addressed so quickly, but when making UI changes in the future - some more testing would be appreciated. Someone on the forum said that a small beta with volunteers would have caught this issue in a heartbeat, I agree.

Unknown · February 2015

Good to hear, a change can not come fast enough!

Unknown · February 2015

JVReal wrote:

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ark123 wrote:

gamar wrote:

ark123 wrote:

We don't need any notifications of AP gain. We need permanently visible AP bars. Do whatever you want to the character portraits, right now you have a ton of gameplay information hidden because you want to keep the character's faces up there.

I had the same thought a while ago, but those portraits are needed as buttons to see enemy info and swap targets

I don't know about you but it took me ages to find out that that could be done. There are no visible buttons, you have to kinda poke the area over the character or their shoulder. Why can't there be a "press to switch target" button?

Anyway we clearly need a better solution than "scroll left and right every turn" to the Ap bar. I'm not an ui designer but the current one blows.

I use iOS, I never scroll to see my own AP, I only scroll to see their AP. For my AP I use the handy color gauges under my characters,

On that note, the game is a year old isn't it about time they made it so the black AP bar is more than 1 HSL value away from the "empty" AP color

zonatahunt · February 2015

In my opinion the only response to the Devs post should be a big THANK YOU. For all the complaining (some justified, some not) that goes on in the forums about whether or not the Devs care about the players, this decision of there's should be proof that they do listen. Good job Devs.

Unknown · February 2015

Good to hear. It was becoming insufferable.

PuceMoose · February 2015

Hooray, this seems to be fixed now, at least on iOS. Just started a PvE match and no hateful banner in sight. Magic!

Demiurge_Will · February 2015

Update: This change is live.

Hayek · February 2015

I think a good compromise would be to show the banner on turn 1 only. That way at a glance you know what colors the goons make (and don't have to go double check) and it doesn't slow the game down.

Unknown · February 2015

Hayek wrote:

I think a good compromise would be to show the banner on turn 1 only. That way at a glance you know what colors the goons make (and don't have to go double check) and it doesn't slow the game down.

If they were going that route it would be better as something in the goon's portrait before the battle.

tanis3303 · February 2015

ark123 wrote:

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Hayek wrote:

I think a good compromise would be to show the banner on turn 1 only. That way at a glance you know what colors the goons make (and don't have to go double check) and it doesn't slow the game down.

If they were going that route it would be better as something in the goon's portrait before the battle.

That's...freakin genius!! Best idea I've heard for this yet. It elegantly solves both the obnoxious banner problem AND the "the AI cheats!!" argument. Well played Ark, D3 should give you a job.

Moon Roach · February 2015

Strangely, I'm actually missing this a little. I found that I was taking more time to see what was available, rather than my usual headlong rush, and making better (or at least less stupid) choices of move.

But I don't think I'll turn it back on when it's optional. I'll just try to slow my gameplay down instead.

Lidolas · February 2015

ark123 wrote:

show previous quotes

Hayek wrote:

I think a good compromise would be to show the banner on turn 1 only. That way at a glance you know what colors the goons make (and don't have to go double check) and it doesn't slow the game down.

If they were going that route it would be better as something in the goon's portrait before the battle.

This. Please.

Update: AP Generation Banners Removed

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