View Full Version : VI should chance font in foyer
Magyar Khan
02-10-2003, 03:24
in the world of RSI and other human threats the programmers presenetd us a nice font in teh foyer, dont u agree we should get rid of it?
FearofNC
02-10-2003, 03:42
during the first week of mtw i was begging giljay for a new font... hopefuly we will see something new in vi. i cant tell you how much of a pain it is when all the german guys are goin ne this and ne that....looks exactly like nc in the foyer http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif
I see nothing wrong with current font ?? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif
Kongamato
02-10-2003, 05:21
I find the font fine.. Just not the people who prefer to type in all caps. It may be that they are non-english speakers who wish to make their posts easier to see, but damn if it is not annoying.
Plus the battle font is quite intense with the small caps and the piercing message sound.
The font is rather small. While I can read it, I know some people that have trouble reading it. I would like the font size to be larger, but I would not like to drop below 4 lines of text in the private message window.
I dislike the font totally, right from the start. You cant even distinguish between 0 and O. Its an eye-unfriendly font.
And I would like the old STW announcement of player entering the foyer.
I can't say that the font annoys me too much. The Shogun font was way better but I don't dislike the new one.
Same for me. A clearer font wouldn't hurt anyone.
Orda Khan
02-10-2003, 18:12
Quote[/b] (tootee @ Feb. 10 2003,09:00)]I dislike the font totally, right from the start. You cant even distinguish between 0 and O. Its an eye-unfriendly font.
And I would like the old STW announcement of player entering the foyer.
I agree with you totally TooTee
*** has entered the room
*** has left the room
........sorely missed
......Orda (has left the room http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif )
My concern with the entering and leaving messages is that these would fill the screen and make it scroll up too fast when there are a lot of people online, especially since players log off and on a lot after a battle.
Dionysus9
02-10-2003, 19:58
I share Yuuki's concern re: "entering and leaving player annoucnements". Saturdays see 120+ players online, when a 4v4 game gets out you can expect 8 players to log off and then log on again. Thats 16 messages. For those of us in a game without public chat disabled, it will make it nearly impossible to follow the public chat (can only see 4 lines to begin with).
If you have 16 lines scroll by because of relogs, its going to be pretty difficult to see whats going on. With the present foyer, I dont think it will work to anyones satisfaction.
edit: not to mention spammers and other peoepl (like myself) who talk alot.
I voted yes
But i would like to see more changed then just the font
1) I would like to see the whole screen being used and it have it in 3d. You could see through the foyer and the background could show troops moving around and fighting.
2) Would be nice to have tabs on the screen you can click on that lead to; replay room, arranged team options, tip room for newbies, observer mode, and links to totalwar sites. The replay room is where you can view replays in a little box with anyone and pause it and penical in marks and stuff on the box. The tip room could have tips for newbies created by totalwar fans so newbies don't have to do any sufin the internet for help. The arranged team will let people who to play together join the game 1st before others can get in and you can save teams. The observer mode lets you view any game being played that has this option turned on or just view the currant stats of the game.
3) The playerlist should have a few columns; clans, friends, people chatting to you, people who have warnings, and the rest. People in the same clan will get boxed together once they join a room and at top of the box shows there clan name. Your friends will could be boxed together under your clan box. People who are chatting to you will get put to the top in the column next to your friends and clans one, so one column shows your clans and friends, and one shows other clans, and the 3rd shows the rest. In the 3rd column people that chatted to you get put to the top in a box and players with warnings are also boxed together in that column.
4) Would be nice to have icons for players in game, on ban list, on ignore list, afk, and others. Players in game instead of getting greyed out, next to there name will show swords when playing. For people who have been ignored and banned, you can click on there name and another window opens up showing there profile and it tells you how many people have that person ignored and banned. When you go afk instead of your name getting greyed out and saying it in the foyer, it will just show next to your name in a box 'afk'. There will be a little tab on your screen that drops down a menu with icons you can click on for ignore, ban, afk, and maybe other icons that can stand for warnings in game or out of game, so you don't have to type the action and it's easier for those who don't know or haven't looked for the commands.
5) I don't mind it saying who enters the room and exits in the foyer. If were going to have that then we need more rooms and limit rooms to maybe 50 or 100 people max.
6) For the games... In your foyer it shouldn't show up saying who's hosting what and also say it when a game finishes. There should also be a seperate room that just shows a list of games. Maybe you could also game searches, where you set your game prefrences and hit search. Also need the options to disable games being displayed that have p/w, settings you would never play, and games that are finishing. For games that have passwords you can still join them even when you have the view option turned off, by having a box where you just type the game name and p/w in and you join that game.
7) Need a system where instead of have one big patch at once, have it like some other games. When you logon it checks your version and auto d/ls any patchs small or big.
Alright i'll stop there i know i missed a lot of things on my mind. I get carried away to much sorry about that. Just that the multiplayer could be so much better with thousands of players. Everyday i see tons of new names come and go...
I hope someday i'll see my favorite type of game get combined with a good multiplayer.
Orda Khan
02-10-2003, 22:15
Now Amp has come up with some nice ideas, that would be a great foyer.
With regards the players entering and leaving message......
One of the first things I would do is stop all this relogging after games. We never had that in MI
.....Orda
Dionysus9
02-11-2003, 00:05
CA Needs to put AMP in charge of product development. Or at least Multi development.
Magyar Khan
02-12-2003, 03:20
well due to the lack of resources amp will be typing CD-keys on the manuals instead http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
sad but probably true, hopefully they will take note i think some ideas are a bit far fetched but in general there are some brilliant ones also http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Dionysus9
02-12-2003, 08:08
Quote[/b] (Magyar Khan @ Feb. 11 2003,20:20)]well due to the lack of resources amp will be typing CD-keys on the manuals instead http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
lol http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wacko.gif
LMAO
The font is truly beautiful, calligraphic.
How soon can we get rid of it ? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif
Nice ideas AMP
Quote[/b] (Orda Khan @ Feb. 10 2003,21:15)]One of the first things I would do is stop all this relogging after games. We never had that in MI
Yes Please.
May we rid the MTW of all remaning bugs or risk excommunication.
Amen.
Magyar Khan
02-15-2003, 15:22
another useless topic?
Hopefully the good guys at CA did take note, and make these simple little changes that would improve our lives by folds.
Quote[/b] (tootee @ Feb. 10 2003,09:00)]And I would like the old STW announcement of player entering the foyer.
Totally agree also.
Lets go with that in VI
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smokin.gif
Maybe a small window like this?
http://www.boomspeed.com/tootee/new_screen.jpg
TheViking
03-26-2003, 00:39
Get rid of it or at least make it bigger
Zitat[/b] (FearofNC @ Feb. 09 2003,20:42)]during the first week of mtw i was begging giljay for a new font... hopefuly we will see something new in vi. i cant tell you how much of a pain it is when all the german guys are goin ne this and ne that....looks exactly like nc in the foyer http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif
lol http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
I don't really care about the font.
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