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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Halo on September 06, 2002, 09:54:53 PM
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Please change the gun manning color codes to avoid the present confusion of thinking Red positions are destroyed instead of occupied, and having to keep clicking on Yellow positions to find ones that are not destroyed.
A logical fix would be as follows:
Yellow: Gun is available.
Green: Gun is occupied.
Red: Gun is destroyed.
No need to have an exclusive color for the gun you are trying to occupy -- you know what gun it is since you are clicking on it, and you can see when it turns Green you are the one occupying it.
This can save lots of time trying to quickly find intact and unoccupied guns when bases are under attack. At present, frustrating to have to keep hunting among Yellow positions only to find the message Gun is Destroyed.
Incidentally, what is that strange little black symbol that appears on some gun position dots and not others? What does it symbolize and what does it mean? I realize I'll be told something everyone else knows, but I still need to know.
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Good idea, BUT, I don't think your colours are logical. If you consider the colours to be like a traffic-light, then green is "go" - ie available, yellow is occupied, and red defintatly unavailable?
Originally posted by Halo
Please change the gun manning color codes to avoid the present confusion of thinking Red positions are destroyed instead of occupied, and having to keep clicking on Yellow positions to find ones that are not destroyed.
A logical fix would be as follows:
Yellow: Gun is available.
Green: Gun is occupied.
Red: Gun is destroyed.
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I think the main problem is that yellow with its higher visibility is used on the general schematics, which makes sense to me. Positions would not be as visible in green or (heaven forbid) red.
I agree with the traffic light analogy, but think the existing yellow availability is easier to see in most situations. Combine that with red for destroyed/unavailable and green for alive/occupied strikes me as the best compromise.
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No red/green is not a good idea unless you want to piss-off the 10+% of users who are likely to have some form of colour vision deficiency aka colour blindness.
There are other better contrasting colours availabe...
Sorry - this is a well-known user interface issue.
That said - changing them colours does strike me as a good idea!