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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0016855 | Stars Beyond Reach | GUI | May 26, 2015 6:13 pm | Jun 24, 2015 8:27 pm | |
| Reporter | Cyborg | Assigned To | Blue | ||
| Severity | minor | ||||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.840 (Pollution/Crime/Teleporters/Blueshirts) | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.898 (Beauty and the Bugs) | ||||
| Summary | 0016855: GUI: hammer indicators need clarification | ||||
| Description | Need more than just changing the color on the hammer to describe social progress indicators. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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This is something that we've been thinking about, and which is on Blue's list. But it's definitely a challenging thing because we also want to make sure each icon actually is still thematically tied together so you realize it's all social progress. I'm not sure, possibly they all need to use purple as their color so that's unifying, and then have different shapes. |
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Put up on my Trello. :) |
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Turn one of the hammers into a sickle and another into a star. Then you won't need the colour difference anymore and they can all be red... :-P |
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Well, purple. But yeah, they're supposed to be gavels, specifically. Government, commerce, and culture. Government seems like the gavel, and I guess commerce could be a sickle, but that seems more like industry. A star could work for culture, but I think it's tricky. This might be a good one for a forum discussion to see what ideas people have, and/or what representations might be familiar to people from other games. |
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I was making a communist joke, actually. ;-) |
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(I don't have any actual ideas about good icons, sadly.) |
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Oh, hahaha. :D I just finished reading Superman: Red Son, so I doubly should have caught that. Seeing the symbology that much in my face, not that it wasn't already super familiar from just real life, should have cued me in. ;) |
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To wander even further from the actual point of this issue, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 is a most excellent short documentary (under 7 minutes) about communism and videogames. |
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Cool stuff! And yeah, my last comment was just an excuse to mention Red Son. ;) |
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Thanks! * The three categories of Social Progress up at the top of the screen (commerce, cultural, and government) now have icons that more clearly represent what they actually are, while still keeping the central hammer symbology. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| May 26, 2015 6:13 pm | Cyborg | New Issue | |
| Jun 5, 2015 2:35 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Blue |
| Jun 5, 2015 2:35 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => assigned |
| Jun 5, 2015 2:36 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0041811 | |
| Jun 5, 2015 3:22 pm | Blue | Note Added: 0041826 | |
| Jun 7, 2015 3:13 pm | jerith | Note Added: 0041992 | |
| Jun 7, 2015 4:56 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0042011 | |
| Jun 7, 2015 6:31 pm | jerith | Note Added: 0042028 | |
| Jun 7, 2015 6:32 pm | jerith | Note Added: 0042029 | |
| Jun 8, 2015 9:40 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0042051 | |
| Jun 8, 2015 10:38 am | jerith | Note Added: 0042062 | |
| Jun 8, 2015 11:35 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0042068 | |
| Jun 24, 2015 8:27 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0042462 | |
| Jun 24, 2015 8:27 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | assigned => resolved |
| Jun 24, 2015 8:27 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Fixed in Version | => 0.898 (Beauty and the Bugs) |
| Jun 24, 2015 8:27 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => fixed |
