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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0006854 | Valley 1 | Suggestion - UI Ideas | Mar 25, 2012 6:06 pm | Apr 4, 2012 9:29 pm | |
| Reporter | BobTheJanitor | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Product Version | 0.914 | ||||
| Summary | 0006854: Mission directions/descriptions | ||||
| Description | (This is something that I'm sure is probably on the list to be done already, but since I didn't see a mantis issue for it and release is looming ever closer, I'm probably going to increasingly start posting things that I'm sure you already know about, instead of assuming.) Missions need descriptive or instructive tutorial text. Some can be worked out with trial and error, but something like fixing anachronisms would be very confusing without clear directions. Each mission should get an obvious instruction set that pops up the first time you try it, and that you can view later, perhaps by activating the stone that shows you the mission rewards. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | New | ||||
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You mean aside from the directions it already shows in the region menu when you hover over the mission, or the instructions that it shows when you walk by the sign inside the mission itself and then hover over the mission name? |
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Hah! No, those are fine. But since I had no clue those existed, I don't think those are exactly enough. Are there any other places in game where tutorial text pops up when you hover over words? I wonder what else I'm missing. |
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Pretty much half the game has hover-overs for stuff. Hover over the dungeon map, hover over material icons in the crafting menu, hover over all sorts of things. |
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It's entirely possible I'm being dense, but hovering over icons or enemies or maps to get more information seems intuitive, whereas hovering over "Mission Name" to get directions just never clicked. If I'm alone in this I won't press it, but if I had no clue about this, with probably 100+ hours (I wish steam tracked non steam game play time) into the game, I'm sure it could happen to a new player. Edit: Just double checked, even the tutorial text only says "stand by the mission explanation sign to read about the task you must complete," but doesn't mention mousing over the name of the mission for a popup. |
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The tricky thing is, when we show the description text of the mission full-out on the sign, it winds up looking overwhelming in terms of the amount of text to read. Perhaps we need to just suck it up and do that anyway on the mission sign variant of this at the very least (not the region details one), because you're right that this could happen to other folks. Your thoughts? |
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Most of them don't seem to be too wordy. I think of the two, players whining 'that's too much to read' is preferable to 'what the heck am I doing?' Or the sign could have a 'mouse here/click here for description' spot. Edit: Just on the sign, of course. Not on the world map. |
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I also assumed that the descriptions hadn't been added yet as the mission sign popup clearly seemed too empty and unfinished to me. |
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Fixed a couple of versions ago -- thanks! |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Mar 25, 2012 6:06 pm | BobTheJanitor | New Issue | |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Internal Weight | => New |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0021334 | |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => closed |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => no change required |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:19 pm | BobTheJanitor | Note Added: 0021335 | |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:25 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0021336 | |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:51 pm | BobTheJanitor | Note Added: 0021338 | |
| Mar 25, 2012 6:56 pm | BobTheJanitor | Note Edited: 0021338 | |
| Mar 25, 2012 7:13 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0021341 | |
| Mar 25, 2012 7:13 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | closed => acknowledged |
| Mar 25, 2012 7:17 pm | BobTheJanitor | Note Added: 0021343 | |
| Mar 25, 2012 8:06 pm | Enrymion | Note Added: 0021357 | |
| Mar 26, 2012 12:43 am | BobTheJanitor | Note Edited: 0021343 | |
| Apr 4, 2012 9:29 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0021817 | |
| Apr 4, 2012 9:29 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | acknowledged => resolved |
