Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Usability project - initial observations

[Jude <boo...@gm...>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Eino Keskitalo
<ein...@gm...> wrote:
>  * Greyed out choices were assumed to be unselectable.

I assumed this myself when I first started playing the game. It was't
until people in ##crawl were talking about character combinations that
were grayed out that I said "Hang on, I thought you couldn't play
those?" and I realised.

I think the solution here would be to colour-code the choice menu.
Perhaps the current useful/useless wouldn't be the best option, but I
think a light colour for "good" combinations and a darker colour for
"bad combinations", and then actually using gray for the combinations
that are actually restricted, would be a good start. We could possibly
have a quick legend, as Johanna suggests, if there's enough space to
be made on the screen.

-Jude