My Reply #14 is quite constructive... but no one has comment. It means... it is good? It is bad? or no body cares?
Curious!
I don't really care too much about these nitpicky details myself, but your feedback is indeed constructive and deserves discussion. So I'll toss in my two cents worth:
1. In the video, the OK button is clicked many times due to new discovery (of itmes) and what not. This UI should be improved, by removing this OK buttom completely. Founding an item (and along with many other notication) need not stop the game flow at all. Obviously, the battle initiation box saying "Lord Relias is under attack!" is superfluous, remove it ASAP.
I don't mind message pop-ups if they are truly informative and tell me useful stuff. But I do agree with you about the "Lord Relias is under attack!" pop-up. To ease the transition into combat, this could be replaced with the map zooming to focus on the two opposing armies, along with a quick animation of the two sides initiating battle, followed by the pop-up asking if you want to auto-resolve or go to the tactical battle screen.
At the bare minimium, this OK dialogue (or any notification) box should auto-fade after a few seconds. And there is option to customize how many seconds it should be.
I don't agree with this. I like to take the time to read things, especially new messages that I haven't seen before. Auto-fade is annoying if I haven't had time to finish looking at something yet.
Ideally, all kinds of notification should be presented as (pinnable) Event log. If not pinned (either by the game automatically or player manually) the notification will auto fade after a few seconds. The event log should either roll up/down one by one on the right hand side vertically on the right.
I like the War of Magic style event log where you click the event's icon to make it go away. This is the same style as Civ 5, which I find works quite well. No changes needed here.
2. Even the "Your Forces have Been attacked" should be consider auto-faded. But this need futher discussion/thought. I think this important dialogue is really still in 'alpha' stage. So, let's disucss.
No. Why should this auto-fade? You need to make an important decision here: auto-resolve or fight manually. The grayed out cancel button is kind of weird though.
Certain mechanism for gamer ignoring unimportant battles is needed. Unimportant battle should just become pinned events in the event log, without player involvement. This make the game flows. I was always annoyed by time spent by unimportant battle.
That's the whole point of auto-resolve.
3. The Terrian inspector at the top-right is clutter. Move it to bottom right around the Map area. Offer more info, like what kind of "Grain/Material:: bonus it offers.
4. Fraction power panel is another clutter. Move it to where the Map is. Have a button called "Fraction Power", mouse over about that button will shows the power statistic.
I like all these, but I guess it depends on your point of view. I can see how some people might get annoyed by the "clutter". There should be an option to hide these sorts of boxes, like in Civ 5.
5. About that "at least we got the cool spear"... It is more fair to have your cool spear dropped to the ground, when the champion got killed this turn by the spider. Otherwise, it is an cheesy expliot. Just send my cheap level1 champion to grab the Almightly Sword of the Moon Gods, let him kill by the gaurds but the sword will somehow get teleported back to my town.
Agreed. This seems like it could be exploited by the player, and is not the type of strategy an AI would think of. When champions get defeated, they should be forced to drop most (if not all) of their equipment as they make a hasty escape back to town. To the victor go the spoils! This would make people think twice about sending their champions on suicide missions.
