Re: [Rails-devel] Roadmap for improving User Experience

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

My personal focus is on functionality, not on "User Experience".

 

I would be willing to work on implementing SVG company tokens, if someone
else would care to create these.

I'm not interested in adding player portraits, and I generally hate
background music, so you can count me out on these aspects.

 

Personally, I have always considered the current UI to be a provisional one.
What we have now was just within my reach.

In the past several people have already done suggestions to replace or
supplement it with a more sophisticated UI, but so far nobody has started
working on one in earnest.

 

On your other requests: I'll try to implement your 1856 background map.
Possibly also the 18GA CP map, depending on whether or not Stefan can manage
to do that.

 

Erik.

 

From: Frederick Weld [mailto:fre...@go...] 
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 1:35 PM
To: rai...@li...
Subject: [Rails-devel] Roadmap for improving User Experience

 

Hi,

 

in several domains, the rails project has gone far beyond SimTex's 1830. But
there are some other domains in which the situation is the opposite. One is
the availability of computer opponents which is only of minor importance for
rails for obvious reasons (the most important being the lack of complete
rule enforcements as a prerequisite). 

The other domain where SimTex's 1830 shines is the user experience (UI and
beyond), including the graphics and the music. In my opinion, these parts of
the computer game have a large impact on the fun / athosphere of playing the
game. Therefore, I consider this to be really important, too.

Rails has already moved into this direction by providing the means of
including background maps. 

For the future steps into this direction, I have already provided some
feature requests:
- 3460692: svg company tokens/logos
- 3460927: player portraits
- 3454269: background music

What I would like to know is whether/how you (Erik/Stefan/Brett/...) plan to
proceed here.

Regards,
Frederick