Tell The Community Team: UI

[Dendrix]

1) For the Reincarnation cache and the shared bank: Add a search box.

a little more work, but better
2) Convert the Reincarnation Cache, Shared Bank and Normal Bank to use the same style as the character inventory. with the filter tabs and search box

[Sierim]

1) For the Reincarnation cache and the shared bank: Add a search box.

a little more work, but better
2) Convert the Reincarnation Cache, Shared Bank and Normal Bank to use the same style as the character inventory. with the filter tabs and search box

Ooh, I like that idea.
Certainly not something I would consider easy, but very useful.

As for the party UI, I have noticed it is a bit smaller, but whether this is a benefit or a detriment depends on the player and class. The only problem for me has been that the default setting excludes the player's own stats from the party UI. I can see why this would be done (who wants redundant information clogging up one's screen?), but having to go through each of my characters to change it back to the previous setting has been something of an annoyance.

[Tsuarok]

I feel warm and fuzzy. Like dryer lint.

[Tsuarok]

Oh, I forgot to put this in my novel at the end of the survey:

can we please have all of the UI elements resizable? Individually? It would make me really, really happy. Really.

[BadBuy]

Ugh, I thought the fill in box was purely relating to the final question, so I didn't put anywhere near as much detail as I would have done otherwise. See below.

The party UI is very difficult to read when healing. No, it's horrible to read while healing.

The options to put yourself into the party (which was the default) are hidden too much. I've directed more than a few annoyed folk to them who hadn't discovered them for themselves. I'd suggest switching that to on as the default option. The first thing I did when update 11 hit on all my toons was nuke the large HP bar, portrait and all, and include myself in the party list.

I like being able to see HP and SP. The bars need to be more condensed, bigger, and not transparent, though.

I don't care about the artificers puppy or monk ki, unless it's my puppy and my ki.

^ Fully agree with all of this. I also did the disabling and including as soon as got online after the update.

[Kalari]

Done thanks for the survey

[Propane]

Hay peps-

I was running with a hirling last night - and it was annoying for me to look one place to control the hirling and look another to see his HP.

Could we add the HP (and maybe SP) to the control bar in some way? It would make it easier to control them...

I didn't think of this until AFTER I did the survey, so I didn't include this idea there...

[Ryiah]

Nice to see this survey was a complete waste of time. It didn't let me specify how annoyingly small the bars were or anything other than what Turbine seems to mistakenly believe is important.

[rest]

Nice to see this survey was a complete waste of time. It didn't let me specify how annoyingly small the bars were or anything other than what Turbine seems to mistakenly believe is important.

There was a box at the end for additional comments. I take it you didn't put your concerns there?

[Psiandron]

I didn't think about it when I was doing the survey, but a lot of people have mentioned resizing and I'd like to jump on that bandwagon. It would make a lot of sense as people have different screen sizes and relative proportions, as well as playstyles and vision levels. Making all or most of the elements within the UI resizable might be the best overall solution. Of course, being able to lock that size as well as content and position with cntrl = would make sense too. Not sure how hard that might be, but seems like something you might want to pursue.

[SirShen]

When someone DC's u cant tell very well. You need to make it alot darker.

[Failedlegend]

Just wanted to throw in my requests for the Party UI

1. Plz add a way to see a characters splashes...ie. Have the regular icon but if tsay the toon is a 17wiz/2cleric/1sorc I can see those as well but as smaller icons with the number of levels taken/

2. The characters level

3. Their prestige class either with a similar thing as #1 or have the class icon be slightly different ie. A Palemaster wizard would be a black book with a white skull on it

[Zorth]

Thumbs up. I agree that after two pages most people exit surveys, but I would fill out 20 pages for this game. Side note: I have been a jerk in the past but the new pack has given me hope. Well done and thumbs up to the team. I am sorry for being a troll. I am very sorry. I feel bad for my past threads and I am turning over a new leaf. Life is long and this game has become cool again.

It is about having fun with freinds and living.

This game has a lore that spans over 50 years. I changed my mind and I am going to stick with this game and not leave it.

Humbly yours,

Zorth Creen, The name of my first Character back in the day.

[Ryiah]

There was a box at the end for additional comments. I take it you didn't put your concerns there?

I was going to put down my concerns, but then I noticed they would exclude my survey if I put anything in there inappropriate. So instead I put a comment along the lines of "Give us the UI features from LOTRO".

[QuantumFX]

I made ample use of the fill-in-the-blank box at the end.

This.

If you have an idea on how the U.I. *should* work, you can add your ideas there. The nice part about it is that you control the conversation from that point on.

Here’s an example of what I did:
1. Since my character is no longer on the list it makes determining which F key to use to select my target *much* more difficult. You could help this by returning my character to the list or adding the selection key information before the target's name on the list.

2. I should *really* be able to sort the list so I can control which character gets which hotkey.

3. I should be able to choose the number of columns the list uses. In U10, a full raid group was 2 columns of 6 players. I should be able to change that to 12x1, or 6x2, or 3x4, or 4x3, or 1x12.

[whitehawk74]

done and done...

i dont know why i bothered since Turbine didnt listen to all of those Lamania players anyway..
Just change it back. No new code. It was great the way it was.
Only improvement that I could think of was moving the last 6 names in a raid underneath the top 6 (with a little space as a breaker showing so I know who is F7 - F12)...

[BadBuy]

Just wanted to throw in my requests for the Party UI

1. Plz add a way to see a characters splashes...ie. Have the regular icon but if tsay the toon is a 17wiz/2cleric/1sorc I can see those as well but as smaller icons with the number of levels taken/

2. The characters level

3. Their prestige class either with a similar thing as #1 or have the class icon be slightly different ie. A Palemaster wizard would be a black book with a white skull on it

This could go along with the "mouse over for details" idea. If enabled in the menu when you hold your mouse over a party member you would get their detailed info including the one you requested.

[LucidLTS]

Thanks for offering us a chance to give feedback, I do hope you manage to read all the comments in the last box.

I'd also like to support some of the ideas presented in the thread -

Mouseover - great idea, hide the details we don't need to monitor continuously, and let them show on mouseover. Also, if mouseover caused the target control to swell and change color we'd notice when the mouse drifted in combat and we'd have fewer accidental clickie firings or wwwwwawwsd strings in chat. Mouse Drift is a huge problem for me and I hear many complaints from others too.

can we please have all of the UI elements resizable? Individually? It would make me really, really happy. Really.

/SIGNED Oh please oh please oh please.

Could we add the HP (and maybe SP) to the control bar in some way? It would make it easier to control them...

/signed, but only if it had a little "+/-" so you could collapse it if you don't want to see it there

2. I should *really* be able to sort the list so I can control which character gets which hotkey.
3. I should be able to choose the number of columns the list uses. In U10, a full raid group was 2 columns of 6 players. I should be able to change that to 12x1, or 6x2, or 3x4, or 4x3, or 1x12.

/signed to both, though #2 has bothered me more often than #3

[Failedlegend]

This could go along with the "mouse over for details" idea. If enabled in the menu when you hold your mouse over a party member you would get their detailed info including the one you requested.

I'm assuming you mean similar to how the info comes up for items,weapons,etc. when you mouse over them...if so I approve.

[BadBuy]

I'm assuming you mean similar to how the info comes up for items,weapons,etc. when you mouse over them...if so I approve.

Yup, exactly. Then lots of additional usefull info could be stored there without cluttering up the main UI.