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Unread 06-16-2005, 03:21 PM
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Looking good so far, here are some of my observations and suggestions:

-The final splash screen that reads "EverQuest II" is upside down . I say do away with all of the splash screens completely if you either don't know what you want to do with them or don't feel like reskinning those windows If you do reskin spalsh and loading screens, I think something like the Incubi Silver look would go well with the Vert style. (Silver also included a pretty blue color for the casting/loading bars).

-Enable the text in the maintained spell window to wrap around to a second line so that the width of the window can be reduced without cutting off long buff names.

-The shade of blue used to display the power % in the target windows is a tad dark and hard to read. This is with and without font smoothing, and even pre LU 10 fonts. Perhaps a lighter shade would make it more ledgible.

-The fonts in the mod post LU 10 seem to be too big. I replaced pre LU 10 fonts plus switch to Arial and it looks much better. Conversely the text that is part of the graphics such as on the next/prev page buttons in the spell book are very small and hard to read at my resolution.

-The casting bar is really, really big even at my reso. Not sure how others feel about this but I think it could stand to be sized down a bit.

-I would like to see a second option for the player window that removes the health/power totals from the bars. Though I do like seeing my totals displayed somewhere, I am not a fan of them blocking my view of the bars themselves.

-If the bank selectors for the hotkeys is going to outright cover the first button, make it autohide (there are a few hotbar mods around that do that) or make it hide as part of the frame if opacity is set to 0.

-The text above the exp bar reads "(50)50 Mystic" at all times, which I now know refers to mentoring, but it doesn't need to be there when not mentoring.

-I like the arrangement of the group window, but at my reso it is pretty small overall. The effects icons are a challenge to correcty identify for fast group curing due to being so small, and the number displayed on top of the icons further hinder this. I would like to see a larger version of the grp window, with the empty space on the right filled instead of just a place for the LFG button to go. Move the LFG button up top on the blue frame area if possible, maybe add a disband button as well. Increase the size of the effects icons by a couple pixels all around, maybe elongate the group members' bars if possible.

That's pretty much it for now (whew). Keep up the fine work

Last edited by Eloora : 06-17-2005 at 03:19 PM. Reason: Edited some points for clarification and accuracy
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