Pop-Up Dialogs

[benpark]

One aspect that I never enjoyed about the original games was the use of pop-up windows to convey needed information like combat results. There's a lot of window space on my 27" monitor now, so it would be great to have this as part of the "built-in" UI - or even "on-screen results".

[berto]

On-map results won't fly, because there is so much text with High Details that it would be hard to read with a busy map background.

We could, as other games do, just show a number, or "2 SP", or abbreviations like that floating directly above the action. But that would not suffice to convey the usual assortment of combat High Details.

We could expand the side boxes and locate combat results in a section of that. But that is a longer term UI redesign and could get to be rather messy.

[benpark]

Thanks, Berto.

On-screen also works as a solution, and people using High Details would probably expect the text-heavy version anyway. As an on-map additional option at low and medium details, the game would be more fluid of an experience, in my mind. The pop-up could remain for those that want the additional text detail, so closing the box would be less of an issue.

Longer-term (to eastern front, my main interest by far) - Incorporating it into the side UI box was the "built in" part of the suggestion. If that can be considered, it would be in keeping with the other great quality-of-life changes you all have made. It's the most seen pop-up, so it is something the player experiences with regularity.

[berto]

Thanks for the suggestions. We will continue to evaluate and where necessary (and not too difficult!) fix aspects of the game's UI.