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Title: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: caldera on July 06, 2017, 09:42:44 AM
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but the strats and bases in AH3 flash colors that are represented by enemy countries.
For instance, my colors are green for friendly fields and pink and yellow for enemy fields.  When a strat is surrounded by multiple bases, it flashes pink and green.  That causes confusion as to who owns the strat.  :headscratch:


Please make everything flash red when under attack.
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: BowHTR on July 06, 2017, 09:58:51 AM
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but the strats and bases in AH3 flash colors that are represented by enemy countries.
For instance, my colors are green for friendly fields and pink and yellow for enemy fields.  When a strat is surrounded by multiple bases, it flashes pink and green.  That causes confusion as to who owns the strat.  :headscratch:


Please make everything flash red when under attack.

Fields flash the opposite color that you have that countries field set to.
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: Volron on July 06, 2017, 10:15:06 AM
While on the subject of flashing bases/towns, have them flash when being shelled as well.  All to easy to park a gv far enough away, but still close enough to shell something.  Definitely applies to our TG's. :)
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: BowHTR on July 06, 2017, 10:32:55 AM
While on the subject of flashing bases/towns, have them flash when being shelled as well.  All to easy to park a gv far enough away, but still close enough to shell something.  Definitely applies to our TG's. :)

The 49ers will have something to say about this!  :bolt:
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: hitech on July 06, 2017, 10:48:44 AM
And what happens if you have the color selected to be red? Or are red green color blind?

HiTech
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: caldera on July 06, 2017, 11:24:12 AM
Fields flash the opposite color that you have that countries field set to.

Then who owns the pink/green flashing strat on a pink/green frontline?

And what happens if you have the color selected to be red? Or are red green color blind?

HiTech


I'm legally blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.  :old:

How about writing the country name next to the % status that's shown when moving the mouse over the strat?

Or even a letter.  B, K or R?
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: popeye on July 06, 2017, 11:30:37 AM
If the flash duty cycle wasn't 50% it would be easier to tell which is the normal color and which is the flash color.  An 80% normal / 20% flash duty cycle would make the normal color more apparent but still register as "flashing".
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: BowHTR on July 06, 2017, 11:49:52 AM
Then who owns the pink/green flashing strat on a pink/green frontline?

Chances are, the strat is owned by the country of which it is in the back of...

If it's causing confusing, change your colors up some.
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: Wiley on July 06, 2017, 12:40:31 PM
Chances are, the strat is owned by the country of which it is in the back of...

If it's causing confusing, change your colors up some.

The issue is, without knowing which country owns the strat it's not immediately apparent which of the two colors it's flashing the country belongs to, regardless of what colors they are.

As a colorblind guy, I'm a big fan of the asymmetrical flash Popeye suggested or some kind of visual indicator like Caldera suggested.

Wiley.
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: caldera on July 06, 2017, 01:12:05 PM
Mea Culpa.  There is a country indicator, it's just really small:

(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/ahss56.jpg~original) (http://s343.photobucket.com/user/caldera_08/media/ahss56.jpg.html)

Please change my wish request to make whatever the cursor highlights the same size as the rest of the text on the map.  :D
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: Easyscor on July 06, 2017, 01:15:47 PM
I didn't realize this was an issue for other people too. A change could be good.
+1
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: hitech on July 06, 2017, 02:39:54 PM
Sounds like a classic case of give the customer what they want , not what they wish for?

I.E. The real request is that Calder wishes a way to easily know ownership of strat objects?

HiTech
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: caldera on July 07, 2017, 10:39:24 AM
Sounds like a classic case of give the customer what they want , not what they wish for?

I.E. The real request is that Calder wishes a way to easily know ownership of strat objects?

HiTech

That is affirmative.
Title: Re: Make strats and bases flash red
Post by: Easyscor on July 07, 2017, 01:46:03 PM
I left it to the OP but I like base defense. I can't tell which of my bases are flashing and which are enemy bases flashing. When on, I've clicked on plenty of enemy bases looking for a low fight.