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7 Mar 2010, 19:36
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Save energy: Be apathetic
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 228
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new appearance
I just signed up for the beta and I've seen some stuff that simply stand out.
1. Left panel menu:
a) Foreign Affairs > Galaxy Status / Galaxy - Why are the galaxy sections under foreign affairs? From a role-play point of view I can understand, but looking at it from my PA experience it just doesn't fit.
b) Could we, please, have the tabs in the same order as before? It's annoying like they are arranged now.
2. Constructions tab:
Why in earth do I see a description of the building without asking for it? Just loads up space for no purpose really and I have to scroll down quite a bit to reach the FC.
3. Research tab:
Again, I have to scroll down.
4. The M/C/E icons:
Has Disney bought PA?
Conclusion?
Please, give us an option under preferences in which we can pick the layout we want and like without forcing a new one in. This way you can introduce new things to it as much as you want and not piss off people.
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7 Mar 2010, 19:54
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CRASHING BEATS 'N FANTASY
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Cold Country.
Posts: 1,912
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Re: new appearance
Screenshots?
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7 Mar 2010, 20:02
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Bragpack™
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 815
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Re: new appearance
Buy a bigger screen.
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7 Mar 2010, 20:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 401
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Re: new appearance
Liking the direction taken for the changes, PATeam
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7 Mar 2010, 21:22
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This Space for Rent
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 583
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Re: new appearance
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Originally Posted by ricoshay
Running 1920 x 1080 on a 22" display, stoom. ^^
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guess i'm gonna have to buy an external monitor in order to play pa on my laptop.
has anyone loaded up beta on mobile? has anything changed?
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7 Mar 2010, 23:06
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,587
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Re: new appearance
The only thing I dislike about the new layout is that it doesn't fit on a width of 1024 pixels. Horizontal scrolling ftl.
As for Galaxy Status... I'm not sure where I'd put it. Neither Military nor Foreign Affairs quite fits.
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Last edited by Mzyxptlk; 7 Mar 2010 at 23:11.
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8 Mar 2010, 00:12
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CRASHING BEATS 'N FANTASY
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Cold Country.
Posts: 1,912
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Re: new appearance
Foreign affairs fits for galaxy status, considering that your galaxy is sort of foreign territory.
Only downside is, as mz already pointed out, the insane width. There's some spare horizontal space available that could easily be cut out and would hopefully make a 1024 pixels resolution.
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8 Mar 2010, 06:55
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Fook Yu
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Looked pal
Posts: 383
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Re: new appearance
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
The only thing I dislike about the new layout is that it doesn't fit on a width of 1024 pixels. Horizontal scrolling ftl.
As for Galaxy Status... I'm not sure where I'd put it. Neither Military nor Foreign Affairs quite fits.
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Finally i can sit back and relax with my WSXGA+ laptop screen, and enjoy how frustrated everybody else gets. Noone sells decent laptops with 1680x1050 resolution anymore. i won. gg.
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8 Mar 2010, 08:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: North
Posts: 227
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Re: new appearance
this really beats the crap out of my 7" netbook with 800*480
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8 Mar 2010, 10:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 60
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Re: new appearance
I loaded beta on my phone and it is hardly playable with it.
all kinds of texts disappear or run trough each other. Especially the menu on the right is messed up with the score/resources etc...
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8 Mar 2010, 10:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Norway
Posts: 367
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Re: new appearance
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Originally Posted by BaasB
I loaded beta on my phone and it is hardly playable with it.
all kinds of texts disappear or run trough each other. Especially the menu on the right is messed up with the score/resources etc...
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To my information the mobile interface who has been there the last rounds isn't uploaded and tested yet.
Thats why its not working very well on a mobile so far
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8 Mar 2010, 15:18
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Always MadcowS
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 439
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Re: new appearance
some ppl just like moaning.
I like the changes! Especially the visuals you start using now. Tooltips and stuff were missing and scaring off any new users. Go on this way!
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8 Mar 2010, 20:12
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 401
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Re: new appearance
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
The only thing I dislike about the new layout is that it doesn't fit on a width of 1024 pixels. Horizontal scrolling ftl.
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Agreeing with this sentiment.
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8 Mar 2010, 23:39
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 6
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Re: new appearance
One thing that bothers me is that there doesn't seem to be any other skins other than the round 32 skin. I prefer the last rounds skins.
Oh about where you can put Galaxy thats simple :
Create a Galaxy section on the left tab with Galaxy, Gal status and politics in it. you could even out the forums in there and the com unit and get rid of the title communications all together
oh and its wonderful having a mac being able to reduce the size of the screen with the touch pad
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9 Mar 2010, 04:25
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Alive and kicking
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Posts: 220
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Re: new appearance
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Originally Posted by Rafars
One thing that bothers me is that there doesn't seem to be any other skins other than the round 32 skin. I prefer the last rounds skins.
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The skins are still being worked on.
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11 Mar 2010, 14:40
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Zoetermeer
Posts: 25
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Re: new appearance
well i loaded it with my phone, EVEN NOW TYPing this message on my phone and it works perfect. don't really how the old pa looked like so i like the new look.
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11 Mar 2010, 18:45
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Fightin-irish for life
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: guinness brewery
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Re: new appearance
checked it out on my phone it works fine , layout is only slightly different from previous rounds
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11 Mar 2010, 21:10
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Banned
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Further to the right
Posts: 19,441
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Re: new appearance
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
The only thing I dislike about the new layout is that it doesn't fit on a width of 1024 pixels. Horizontal scrolling ftl.
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This is the only thing that really annoys me. And by really annoys I mean for ****s sake cin can you not go one solitary round without coding in a change that makes you look like a total wanker?
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12 Mar 2010, 17:06
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Founder of Planetarion
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Oslo, Norway
Posts: 543
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Re: new appearance
Screen-estate has become a small hell these days. Some years back, everything was going in the right direction, with screen-sizes increasing at a slow but steady speed.
Then wide-screen came along and cut away a lot of the height, and added it to the width. Good for movies, but certainly not for most web-applications or websites. A typical newspaper-site are more based around something like 640 * 50000 so you scroll and scroll and scroll. But only downwards at least.
Then came the terrible netbooks, with their puny screens (which is why I don't have one, my 18,4" laptop = 1920*1080) down to 800*480 or something, which should clearly be a serious offense punishable by death. And of course, now iPhones, various Androids and whatnot, are coming in all over the place....gaah...Standards? Hah. That said, some of these mobile devices do a good job at zooming out, to fit the content, so that is at least not as bad it could have been.
There are however some definite NONOs, and the horizontal scrollbar is certainly one of them. From what I can tell about most of my player in ML these days, is that 1280*800 seems to be the the most frequent "low-res" category, clearly due to the use of laptops. I know there are some silly 1280*768 out there too, but obviously much fewer. PA has one big advantage though, which makes it easy to avoid the dreaded HorizontalScrollbarOfDeath, and that is ofc that it is not bound to any special height on the different pages. With that benefit, I'd suggest that you take extra care to work on 1024*768 without horizontal scrollbars at least. Then you can use as much space as you wish to use vertically.
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12 Mar 2010, 19:17
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The Video Guy
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,279
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Re: new appearance
Spinner, we love you.
Also, no joy on that other thing. It seems everyone's tied up until the summer with coursework, I'll get back to you then.
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22 Mar 2010, 07:59
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Save energy: Be apathetic
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 228
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Re: new appearance
Given that there are quite a few people that do NOT like the new layout of the research/construction/waves pages and/or the new side-menu, could we pretty please have a "classic" skin with the old layout available?
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