Originally Posted by Pitheco

Mikus and Hiver, thanks for your support and feedback. Aramintai, thanks for your considerations.

A good thing is a good thing. Its just true.

Originally Posted by Pitheco

Besides, when we open the inventory or the skills window almost half the screen already gets covered up anyway. So... what are we worrying about again? wink

Exactly.


Originally Posted by Ikarius

This arrangement with per-skill family pop-ups is a massive over-design, solving a non-problem, because most/no characters are not going to have all or most of the skills from all the trees.

Exactly. So they would not cover half of the screen or whatever.

The point is it would be quicker and easier to handle the skills and equipable items this way - and it would provide a better and clearer overview of these usable things.


Originally Posted by Pitheco

Most of the the times though I believe there wouldn't be more than 20 or 30 icons for each category at once, even though I don't really know how many skills there will be in total for each school.

I figured that this kind of concept would not show all of the available skills and items from all categories at once, but rather - only those that are in the category you clicked on. (after the first time)

So for example, once you put a fire spell in the hotbar - the next time you would right click on it - only the fire spells would appear above it, once you put a potion in the slot - only potions would appear above it. etc.

- this would require a more broad list of all skills and items for the first usage, but the inventory and skill list as they are can be used for that initial choices and placement -

After that initial setup when you right click on any specific spell or item - only spells and items of that specific category would show up stacked above. So you would see only fire spells, or only Air spells, or only potions, or only weapons... etc.

Arranged whichever way is better, of course.
At least, thats how i imagined it.

Originally Posted by Aramintai
Ok, here's a mock-up -

-Warrior skills went through the roof, I imagine others will as well in final release when we will get a full set of them
-Icons obscure the view, can be quite annoying in combat even with only one stack expanded

So, I dunno, looks clunky to me. I still think that hotbar expansion is better, but this mock-up is better than using those skills from skills window.

Well of course thats clunky, when you imagined it and designed it in that specific way.
But thats not what any of us were imagining it like. Besides, those icons would only pop up shortly, so you can choose one - its not like they would remain on the screen like that.

I think its safe to say that we dont want something actually worse then the current setup, you know.
We are trying to suggest something actually better - not just different for the sake of being different. And especially not something worse.


Last edited by Hiver; 09/05/14 11:01 PM.