[UI] Make blue army numbers lighter

by **Victor Sullivan** on Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:46 am

White circles generally don't match up well with the typical graphical style of a map, if that makes sense. It's hard to make army circles look good in most cases, it seems.

-Sully

by **Victor Sullivan** on Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:51 am

natty_dread wrote:Why is this in the rejected pile? There was plenty of support in the thread. Is it an official site stance that the colours won't be changed?

That would be my guess. Suggestions with not enough support are generally left in the main Suggestions forum. There was a lot of clean-up around here a while back, so who knows? Perhaps Merciful TheForgivenOne Of The Most High Suggs Mod may grace us with his abundance of wisdom and knowledge on the subject.

-Sully

by **blakebowling** on Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:55 am

Victor Sullivan wrote:
natty_dread wrote:Why is this in the rejected pile? There was plenty of support in the thread. Is it an official site stance that the colours won't be changed?

That would be my guess. Suggestions with not enough support are generally left in the main Suggestions forum. There was a lot of clean-up around here a while back, so who knows? Perhaps Merciful TheForgivenOne Of The Most High Suggs Mod may grace us with his abundance of wisdom and knowledge on the subject.

-Sully

I'm a suggs mod too sully :roll:

Also, it's in the rejected pile (which I still argue should simply be renamed Archived Suggestions, and Archived Implemented should just be Implemented) because it fell off the first three pages, and we occasionally clean the forum to keep it from growing uncontrollably. However, since this one has re-surfaced.

Moved back to the main forum.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:41 am

blakebowling wrote:
Victor Sullivan wrote:
natty_dread wrote:Why is this in the rejected pile? There was plenty of support in the thread. Is it an official site stance that the colours won't be changed?

That would be my guess. Suggestions with not enough support are generally left in the main Suggestions forum. There was a lot of clean-up around here a while back, so who knows? Perhaps Merciful TheForgivenOne Of The Most High Suggs Mod may grace us with his abundance of wisdom and knowledge on the subject.

-Sully

I'm a suggs mod too sully

And Sam thinks I'm bright purple. Moving on!

-Sully

by **DiM** on Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:37 pm

i agree to making blue lighter but more importantly i would like the grey/slate to be changed. it's a horribly difficult colour.

by **ender516** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:05 am

I think a broader-based solution would be to make it possible to turn on an opaque background for the army numbers. Whether this would be toggled from one's control panel, or would simply appear when you hover over the number is an issue for later separate discussion.

by **Dukasaur** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:43 am

I never have any problem seeing the blue numbers. What I do often have a problem with are the green numbers. Fix the green before fixing the blue.

by **lethlethe** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:04 am

First of all, I think something should be done about the white armies. For some reason reason the white player always deadbeats! Annoying!

by **blakebowling** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:11 pm

lethlethe wrote:First of all, I think something should be done about the white armies. For some reason reason the white player always deadbeats! Annoying!

Are you being serious now?

I can't tell.

by **QoH** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:30 pm

ender516 wrote:I think a broader-based solution would be to make it possible to turn on an opaque background for the army numbers. Whether this would be toggled from one's control panel, or would simply appear when you hover over the number is an issue for later separate discussion.

This is possible, if you have BOB.

Go into a game, click on MAP OPTIONS, CIRCLE WHITNESS (each click makes the circles behind the armies 10% whiter)

by **blakebowling** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:41 pm

QoH wrote:
ender516 wrote:I think a broader-based solution would be to make it possible to turn on an opaque background for the army numbers. Whether this would be toggled from one's control panel, or would simply appear when you hover over the number is an issue for later separate discussion.

This is possible, if you have BOB.

Go into a game, click on MAP OPTIONS, CIRCLE WHITNESS (each click makes the circles behind the armies 10% whiter)

Right.

It should be available as a site option.

by **QoH** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:55 pm

Obviously. As should all of BOB's features.

by **natty dread** on Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:26 pm

Anyone who has ever been the blue player on Conquerman should know what this suggestion is about.

by **40kguy** on Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:45 pm

why are we complaining about blue? fix the yellow troops.

by **natty dread** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:49 am

40kguy wrote:why are we complaining about blue? fix the yellow troops.

Because there's nothing wrong with yellow or any other colour. Only blue.

by **natty dread** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:19 am

Here's a little example...

The upper row is the current army numbers...
The lower row is the same numbers with the luminosity balanced to the same level on all.

Notice how much blue becomes brighter and yellow becomes darker? I'm not saying all numbers should be changed like this, but this demonstrates clearly how much darker blue is than the other numbers.

by **ender516** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:26 pm

The new blue colour would certainly be more distinguishable from a dark background, but it is much less distinct from grey (old or new) and from the new white. Of course, there is no reason to change the white.

Here is a counter-suggestion aimed at the same problem: why not outline the blue numbers in white instead of black?

by **natty dread** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:15 pm

ender516 wrote:Here is a counter-suggestion aimed at the same problem: why not outline the blue numbers in white instead of black?

That would also be a good idea.

by **blakebowling** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:33 pm

Here's an even better, and even simpler, more effective solution.

Let everyone choose the colors of the various 8 slots in a game in their control panel. Offer a color palette for those that aren't as technically aware, and have a text input field that will accept a hex color code as an input (like #AA0000 for Dark Red).

by **ender516** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:27 pm

blakebowling wrote:Here's an even better, and even simpler, more effective solution.

Let everyone choose the colors of the various 8 slots in a game in their control panel. Offer a color palette for those that aren't as technically aware, and have a text input field that will accept a hex color code as an input (like #AA0000 for Dark Red).

No doubt that would be better, but there is no way that would be simpler to implement than either natty's idea or mine. Also, too many people are accustomed to addressing player 1 as "red" in game chat, so letting people mess with that might cause more problems than it solves.

by **natty dread** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:13 pm

Yeah, and what if people pick colours that are too close to each other?

by **blakebowling** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:08 pm

natty_dread wrote:Yeah, and what if people pick colours that are too close to each other?

They would be the only ones to see the colors, so there wouldn't be an effect the user couldn't fix.

by **ender516** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:21 pm

The fact that a user caused a problem and can fix it will not stop some from complaining bitterly about it.

by **TheForgivenOne** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:29 pm

Gonna Sticky this.

by **Minister X** on Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:36 am

Please fix blue. If it was consistently associated with a certain position in an 8-player game (e.g. first or last) I'd never sign up for a game at that position. I hate playing dark blue.