menu make over

posted on March 31st, 2009, 3:41 am

I was reading the Autosave request and thought to my self the menus in the game are clunky compared to current games.

It I clock menu during a game for example it take my clunky computer a 20-30 secs to load the menu thats graphics are good but it still basted as a A2 layout.

If one was to lefts say have a smaller window load over the game that did not requirer any thing more then passing the game it would make menu request faster and look better in my option.

I think many if not all of the a1/a2 interface concepts are are out out dated it dose your assume work a disservice. I would love to see a total brake maybe not all at once but bit by bit change the farm the game sits in to something more appropriate to your work of art "fleetops mod" you have made.

posted on March 31st, 2009, 3:46 am

I agree, but I don't actually have any good ideas for improvement, other than a rehaul to make it faster... though I don't know if I'm the only one here who liked this, but I always thought the starting animations in V3PR were a neat addition 

posted on March 31st, 2009, 3:53 am

i agree, menus need a fleet ops look, this is a different game, lets make it feel that way

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:08 am

hey maybe it could use the same overlay as the avatar selector.

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:27 am

yeah that would work well, and here is a question, its not necesarily about the menu, but whats on the menu, is it possible, to have the multiplayer, be put through a fleet operations server,

let me explain, like hamachi, but designed specifically by the team, and maybye whos on can be displayed on the fleet ops page, i hope you guys understand.......

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:33 am

"let me explain, like hamachi, but designed specifically by the team, and maybye whos on can be displayed on the fleet ops page, i hope you guys understand"
Hmmm, I seem to remember a similar idea being posited a few months/years ago... I think Jan said he didn't think we needed it because we had the lobby or something like that 

An FO server? That would be expensive and extremely time consuming to design I believe... that's why so many companies use Lamespy in the first place.... and why Blizzard is getting wealthy off having acquired their own 

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:50 am

thing is, when people want to know whoes in lobby they have to start up fleet ops, and get into the server room, which takes A LONG TIME, and most people dont want to stare at lobby all day, its nice with hamachi and such, where you can see whos there, and then ask them if they want to play, its very convient

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:53 am

Lobby doesn't work for me, I can only get games through Hamachi.

So if there was a special place for FO players to go, I'd be all for it.

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:54 am

it would be more convenient to have it work that way but surely we wouldnt have to own a server for that right???

posted on March 31st, 2009, 8:03 am

ya ur playing this amazing game and you go to pause it and this crapy slow menu comes up and it looks like an older game.

[DOCa Cola]

posted on March 31st, 2009, 1:40 pm

Last edited by DOCa Cola on March 31st, 2009, 3:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

the creation of a new "modern game" menu is possible, but would be a *lot* of work. there are more important features that i'd like to work on before anything that doesn't improve gameplay itself.
i know how much the game menu sucks. and yea, the internal menus like the comm screen etc are still on todo. we just haven't found the time to improve them yet. a bigger gui redo is on todo anyway.

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:23 pm

What about having some one out side the fo teem do it for now it can be changed agin at a latter date?

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:29 pm

maybe it would be possible to ask the community to design a few menus, choose the best, make a vote and put the winner in FO ?

posted on March 31st, 2009, 4:48 pm

possibly I was thinking that it could be done like the voice overs for the alien races.

Even if what we get is not perfect it will be a marked improvement.

posted on March 31st, 2009, 5:01 pm

It would also be cool if we could se a slightly different gui for each avatar.  Kinda like Borg in the alpha quadrent vs delta. Different texture patternes.