Azzak Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 UI needs minimalist old-style art. Windows phone UI is.... visually practicable but not immersive at all. Think of a painting, the colors, and make it back into the UI. It is possible to get some inspiration from older naval games. Imo they made it quite nice for a game of that time : http://video-game-store.org/Image/covers/sea-dogs/sea-dogs-image183867.jpg http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/piratesonline/images/3/34/Options6.jpg/revision/latest/zoom-crop/width/320/height/320?cb=20130710180532 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxBauer Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) Why you want to display so many canons in the layout? In my opinion this is not necessary. Front back and sides. Four circles/elements, nothing more. What I would find useful would be an expanded charging indicator. At the moment it displays only the loading cicle of the last fired round. Why not show the last fired round AND the first fired round. Often you fire one shot and a broadside or single shots. You can not see when the first gun is ready again. Two loading circles in a circle. Edited January 26, 2016 by MrWagner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poison Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Better yet, why not have it so the circle fills with the first shot, and little lines marking when each individual cannon is ready? Some people fire more than two individual rounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Fouche Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Would love to see some Port UI. The blue screen is scaring me... Would be really nice to have something unique, Maybe a differnet UI for different size ports and differnet regions of the map? Flags that change from Spanish to British when a Spanish port is captured by the British for example. Maybe a background that change when going to the shop or when in the crafting menu, or a shipyard in the background when ship building. It also makes it easier to to Navigate the menus with some visual reference. Also PLEASE give us a interactive map. Navigation played a MASSIVE role in the age of sail.We need some means of plotting courses, take bearings, co-ordinates etc. Please do not make your ship appear on the map automatically, or show it moving on the map as you sail. Rather give us a means to determine our own position by means of a sextant or something realistic, and then plotting our own position on the map and making course adjustments or setting up new headings. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voi_Ta Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I would like to see wind indicator on the same side as in open world. Also I would like to see the minimap close to sail/wind indicator. It too difficult to keep attention to everything now because gui is scattered all around screen in corners. Or make the positions editable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taranis Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) Would love to see some Port UI. The blue screen is scaring me... Would be really nice to have something unique, Maybe a differnet UI for different size ports and differnet regions of the map? Flags that change from Spanish to British when a Spanish port is captured by the British for example. Maybe a background that change when going to the shop or when in the crafting menu, or a shipyard in the background when ship building. It also makes it easier to to Navigate the menus with some visual reference. Also PLEASE give us a interactive map. Navigation played a MASSIVE role in the age of sail.We need some means of plotting courses, take bearings, co-ordinates etc. Please do not make your ship appear on the map automatically, or show it moving on the map as you sail. Rather give us a means to determine our own position by means of a sextant or something realistic, and then plotting our own position on the map and making course adjustments or setting up new headings. This! Yes, please! And a wind speed indicator would be nice: Light Air, Light Breeze, Gentle Breeze, .... Edited January 29, 2016 by TaranisPrime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Maurice Benyovszky Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 (edited) I think that UI should be more "packed up" so that it takes the smallest size possible on screen.Sorry for my retarded Paint skills haha photo storage Edited February 3, 2016 by Count Maurice Benyovszky 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Valkenburg Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I really like the "packed up" look you suggested, Count Maurice Benyovszky. The only thing I might change about it would be to put the crew/sails and damage stats down on either end, so they're flush against the bottom of the screen and it makes the whole panel a bit more low-profile. The cannons are a nice artistic touch, so I am fine seeing those. If you really wanted to be minimalist, putting the cannon reload discs inside the outline of the deck would condense it even more. I know some want to see a UI that's more antique or period looking, but the sleek and minimal (if not modern) UI is pleasing to the eye and blends in well with the sea and sky. You can both quickly grab information from it and subconsciously forget it's there when you get focused on ships. It's a way of going into cinematic mode without having to disable the UI! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remo Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) I really like the "packed up" look you suggested, Count Maurice Benyovszky. The only thing I might change about it would be to put the crew/sails and damage stats down on either end, so they're flush against the bottom of the screen and it makes the whole panel a bit more low-profile. The cannons are a nice artistic touch, so I am fine seeing those. If you really wanted to be minimalist, putting the cannon reload discs inside the outline of the deck would condense it even more. I know some want to see a UI that's more antique or period looking, but the sleek and minimal (if not modern) UI is pleasing to the eye and blends in well with the sea and sky. You can both quickly grab information from it and subconsciously forget it's there when you get focused on ships. It's a way of going into cinematic mode without having to disable the UI! I agree, that is really easy on the eyes and shows much more of the screen. Also having it bottom center is the best place, nothing but water there in most cases anyways. Edited February 4, 2016 by Remo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Valkenburg Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) Also having it bottom center is the best place, nothing but water there in most cases anyways. Also a very good point. A bonus is that for those with large or multiple screens, everything would be right there for them... except for the compass. If you wanted to get really slick with this, you could actually put the wind direction, yards, and compass bearing into the center too. The wind direction could easily be overlaid onto the ship outline (perhaps only visible on the outside so it isn't cluttering what's already inside). The yards/boom could be arranged to neatly overlay the armor in a subtly contrasting color or shade that's not too overbearing (and this is where removing the little cannons would de-clutter the interior). As for the compass bearing, that could literally be an arc above the ship that sort of frames the whole display, showing the 100-120 degrees off the bow. It could be slightly disorienting for some who might see it as the degrees off the port side, but I'd like to think that most looking at it would understand that the center of the arc us where the bow is pointed. Edited February 5, 2016 by Van Valkenburg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehutchin78 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Can we move the compass to the bottom right side to match where it is in open world? It's confusing to the new guys like me. My first 10 hours in the game I'd drop into instances and my eyes would constantly go to the wrong side of the screen!! Hutch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Nukem Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I like the minimalist approach as well...I think the concept and work behind this was great...but i like relying on sounds and visual ques this game has to offer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir Arska Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 I do not like the UI ideas shown here. Remember this is not WOT or WoWS and do not take ideas from there. The UI has to stay simple and no extra info should be given. Part of the game idea is to learn to sail a ship and look for wind directions etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nescria Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 i think optional or flexible ui should be a possible goal, perhaps like a more minimalist ui and a more expanded one with limited customization. obviously nothing top priority but maybe just an idea for the future since a lot of people are picky about how they like their ui. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDirtyMeat Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Love the look, good job on the UI, the only thing that i would like to say is about he sail drop amount, Id like to see the "full sail", "battle", "full stop", etc instead of just a percentage. I think seeing that vs a percentage it the realism, i don't know about anyone else but i got this game because i love to sail and i love this time period of ships and using the proper terminology was a big part of the enjoyment, learning the lingo of sailors. same thing with controlling the individual masts that make this game so much better than any other game of this style. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard VonKleek Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 -In interpretation (education, not linguistics) and visual displays, we have something called the rule of 3rds. 1/3rd should be imagery. 1/3rd should be text. 1/3rd should be blank. Now, obviously when talking about games and HUD's (for what it is) this changes a good bit, but you can use this to practical advantage to avoid going too minimal or too excessive. And to explain these thirds, research shows this is roughly the most optimal for providing the most information without overloading the user or boring them/intimidating them away. -As a side note, I'd still like to see the bearings on the compass. Being able to say to a group "ship at 20 degrees far" is extremely handy in a large fight where one ship tries to slink away and they're just a faint outline on the horizon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayks83 Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 One thing that have been cool is the recoil of the cannon, like a little push-back when the cannons fires ive spoke to many people with this, they agree that it would been cool to have that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastidius Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Now that the crew swapping features are in can we do 2 things.....make it so we can set the minimum amount of people we want on a service while activated. have the hotkeys rebindable. Example.... I have 200 crew, sailing has 65 max. and guns has 175 max....... if both are activated i wasnt to be able to set sailing to have max and guns to have the left overs. if i have the sailing turned off i want it to drop to a set amount too. I should be able to toggle it 3 times too really... Off Mix & Max. another option would be to remove the buttons and have sliders for each service and a button o the side of it with "focus" on it so you can set that to 100% immediately....I suggest percentages but displaying # of crew. Rebinding the keys is also important because now we are toggling on and off 6 and 7 a lot in smaller ships so having the ability to set it to a better key is good. Consider changing the 1-4 key ammo choice so it toggles rather pops up a sub menu that locks UI. Add Clan tags to player names in all instances of player name....you should be able to just concatenate the guild tag and player name on each UI load up easily enough. Can you also make the reported which now displays hits to hull/sail/crew also put that info in the Ctrl-L screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwnciboo Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 (edited) In port... I'd like it like Captains desk in his coach cabin at the back of the ship surrounded by ledgers and books, like a background... Remember Rail Road tycoon with ledgers and books...But with more of a Naval Captains desk etc. Everything was written in ledgers back then, so some nice "font's" and a nice style would make a nice tone to the game, very in keeping. Font's like this... Maybe 5 or 6 back ground interiors, so one for cutters and sloops etc (small and spartan), getting progressively grander until you get like a Victory sized Cabin! Victory,,, Smaller ships. Simple icons with an elegant Font, would work. Edited March 18, 2016 by mwnciboo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eishen Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 It is 2016 gentlemen Bring us a modable UI and the comunity itself will make for all tastes. At the very least make all elements position of screen displaceable 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrez Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 On Player trade stuff should auto-stack instead giving error message no space available! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasco Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 To be honest, I feel it's a bit intrusive and takes away from immersion. To me Less is More. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taranis Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I like it. Perhaps the devs will allow some skin mods to be developed for the UI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizwald Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 (edited) A modified screenshot I took the other day... Edited April 29, 2016 by Grizwald 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Fouche Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 A modified screenshot I took the other day... A good effort mate, but there is a vital flaw in your background. Firstly, the ships would never get that close to a jetty, the jetty was only used for the ships' boats. Ships would be anchored in the harbor. Secondly, your scale is completely wrong. Unless that ship was a cutter, which it is not, it is a Belle Poulle. Look at the size of the guns compared to the size of the barrel standing next to them on the jetty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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