Post by grävling on Oct 16, 2011 2:58:46 GMT -5
When you tap on your face and get the world to show up, it should show the most likely thing you are looking for first, with options, of course to navigate to the other things.
I don't think that 'statistics' is likely to be it. I find it a rather pointless screen. On the main screen I already have a way to see my physical and mental health, the neighbourhood I am in, the time and the XP I have ready. Getting a reminder about what my charname is, what class I am playing, how hard the game is set to and my DV is something I will need only rarely. I don't know what the field that says that I am currently a Snitch [-5] is for, though running away from battles seems to make it become more negative. So I don't know if I should be paying attention to it for any reason. I'm not interested very often in how much experience I have spent or how many turns I have played. I would be interested in having the game version printed here, if you are going to break the immersion by talking about turns in the first place.
Since teams are new, it may be that managing them will be the most used screen and thus the one to come up first -- I won't know until I have played with teams more. (And, of course, it may be that teams _now_ don't need a lot of managing but will in the future).
But I think that gear is the best candidate for default here. (Though I am playing a hacker for the very first time this game, so it may be that hackers are more interested in their computer info than their gear.) The nice thing about this is that you could then remove the little icons on the bottom -- the gun and the computer -- with the only penalty being that either the computer screen or the gear screen becomes 2 taps away instead of 1.
This -- combined with getting rid of the arrow which I also find useless, except for 'continue going where I was going when I was interrupted' which is funcitonality I think could move to after the interruption, see a different post -- would free up all that nice real estate at the bottom of the screen for something more useful. I'd be interested in a quick way to see what your courier locations are, sorted by the time at which they will become late.
I don't think that 'statistics' is likely to be it. I find it a rather pointless screen. On the main screen I already have a way to see my physical and mental health, the neighbourhood I am in, the time and the XP I have ready. Getting a reminder about what my charname is, what class I am playing, how hard the game is set to and my DV is something I will need only rarely. I don't know what the field that says that I am currently a Snitch [-5] is for, though running away from battles seems to make it become more negative. So I don't know if I should be paying attention to it for any reason. I'm not interested very often in how much experience I have spent or how many turns I have played. I would be interested in having the game version printed here, if you are going to break the immersion by talking about turns in the first place.
Since teams are new, it may be that managing them will be the most used screen and thus the one to come up first -- I won't know until I have played with teams more. (And, of course, it may be that teams _now_ don't need a lot of managing but will in the future).
But I think that gear is the best candidate for default here. (Though I am playing a hacker for the very first time this game, so it may be that hackers are more interested in their computer info than their gear.) The nice thing about this is that you could then remove the little icons on the bottom -- the gun and the computer -- with the only penalty being that either the computer screen or the gear screen becomes 2 taps away instead of 1.
This -- combined with getting rid of the arrow which I also find useless, except for 'continue going where I was going when I was interrupted' which is funcitonality I think could move to after the interruption, see a different post -- would free up all that nice real estate at the bottom of the screen for something more useful. I'd be interested in a quick way to see what your courier locations are, sorted by the time at which they will become late.
