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List of UI related issues

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by Zisi, Dec 6, 2013.

  1. Zisi

    Zisi Phantasmal Quasar

    1) Crafting stations activate the search box when opened: This has two negative UI implications. Firstly you cannot just press E again to close it like you can with chests (though E does work to close the window if you deselect the search box). Secondly you cannot press I immediately after opening it if you wish to open your inventory, you have to click somewhere in the window to make that work. I found that confusing for longer than I should have.

    2) Scroll bars don't work: I'm sure this is already on your list, not a big deal, but would be nice to have at some point.

    3) You can order your ship to fly to the planet you are at currently. Watching the stars fly by as you arrive back where you started.... Well I guess we found out the universe was round! And all that for no fuel too! ;)

    4) A "nice to have someday" feature would be a little different animation for stellar flight. Similar to the above, background stars flying by for stellar flight is a little immersion breaking.

    5) Auto stack: A feature similar to Terraria's would do wonders for inventory management. Go up to a container, press the button, and it would automatically take whatever is in your inventory that already has an existing item in the target and stack it. Bonus points if you can make it work in an AOE across multiple containers or make new stacks in the same container when existing stacks are full. Most people like being organized, nobody likes pecking through their various containers playing a matching game every time they go back to their ship.

    6) A Friends list / Auto re-invite feature would be nice. My desire for one probably exasperated by the current crashing / disconnection issues. Regardless, not having to type in my friends name to invite every time they connect would be nice.

    7) Alt tabbing out when in fullscreen mode reverts to windowed mode. A mode for borderless window would be VERY welcome and would be pretty easy to add, at least in the windows version.

    8) It's too easy to drop down multiple platforms to your death. I think there is a delay between when you release down and when you stop falling through platforms that make this harder than it should be. In any case the utility of being able to drop multiple platforms at a time I think is pretty minimal. Most platformers that use the hold down + jump method either don't have fall damage, or don't allow multiple platform drops, requiring additional presses of the action key to continue to fall. Super metroid is an example of this.

    9) The time on the planet continues to advance while you are in your ship, however there is no indication of the time of day while in orbit. It would be pretty cool if at some point some graphics could be added so that you could see when you are flying over the dark side of the planet.

    10) Consumables with non-stacking effects are permitted to be used at any time, wasting that consumable. Bandages are an example. Effects should be queued, stacked, or consumption should be put on cooldown.

    11) At character creation human undy color can be picked, however there is no visual indication of what color you have picked.

    12) There is no way to delete a character in game. (deleting the relevant files works of course, however the name of the character is not on the files, so it can be hard to know which set of player files corresponds to which player)

    13) There does not seem to be a way to hide the helmet, you guys did nice work on the variety of hairs, it would be nice to see it in game!

    14) Changing / Providing an ingame means of, Hair & Personality post character creation would be nice. A use for the thought reassignment bed? :boo:
     
    Last edited: Dec 7, 2013
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  2. Zisi

    Zisi Phantasmal Quasar

    Added some stuff
     
  3. Zisi

    Zisi Phantasmal Quasar

    8 was resolved in the last patch, added 11 and 12
     
  4. Zisi

    Zisi Phantasmal Quasar

    Added 13 and 14
     

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