GUI Design Improvement

Hi,

i had some coffee and an idea.
Recently i was watching your offical SOTA Stream and rediscovered the GUI Design as blunt black backgrounds, something you forget after seeing it for that long. And i just thought, the whole appearance of the game would take a massive leap up if just the GUI Design was a little better. Or let's say it doesnt go down when opening a bag or character info at least. It would just round the whole thing.
Let's say it like this: You guys have massive talent for designing ingame items/wearables, they look amazing and detailed. Why don't you just do some little ornaments, nothing crazy, and put them over/around those black windows. Partly around the edges for example. I bet you can do it in less than half a day with one person. And it would make such a difference in my eyes. Especially for new people coming into the game!

 

they used to have them. they took them out. (though i can't say i was fond of the gold, they considered a blue variant i would have liked.)

 

right, i remember now. i dont know exactly either why its been canceled. but there was a reason i think.
anyway, just the same thing. just in a darker color and blue like you said (or any other color or way to not make it as pointy as bright gold), why not. make it more subtle and dont do the lower extrusive hook thing like on the bottom of the right frame. the upper right menu doesnt need it at all.
then add a few minor elongated ornaments that lay around the borders in a artistic manner to it, also subtle but delicate.
it should be there but you dont see it, but you dont want to miss it when its gone. something like that
just my thoughts about it

 

I liked that look way more than what we have now.

 

I think the promise we all thought was coming was an actual UI overhaul, not a reskin.

 

I think the problem wasn't the color, but I think it would also be nice to have a "chose your design!" function to give people what they prefer: gold, silver, blue, green, what ever!

It was and still is the behavior of the engine.
In some cases it is fine with auto hide, but to organize all those windows on screen sometimes is a challenge!
A kind of dragn'n drop windows into right or left corner, let it auto fade / hide - mouse over opens it - would be fine

Currently we have to click too many times.
We have to click 2 or 3 times for stuff, where 1 click would work fine. Don't count all unnecessary clicks over years!

For example: Double click on an npc. Click BUY button on top of Dialoge window.
But I want (most time after exploring!) SELL. So click again on sell in the window and ... yeah.
Why can't there be two buttons on the top of the dialogue window |BUY | SELL| ?

Another example: combobox. We have so many things to choose from (what is really amazing in this game!), but it is sometimes so clunky to reach it.

If you do crafting stuff, it is sometimes so awful, that I decide to buy things, before clicking around

Browsing through all those words, instead of having some icons representing what to do - and we still have those icons in our crating tree!!!
Imagine just icons (with mouse over telling the function) on the top line of crafting window for
Blacksmith:
Repair | Components | ARMOR: Chain | Plate | Shields | ... Masterwork

Carptenter:
Repair | Components | Pole | Bludgeon |Shields | Deco | ... Masterwork

Tailoring:
Repair | Components | Cloth| ARMOR: Cloth | Leather | Bone | ... Masterwork


ONE click instead of two (click into combo box, mouse moving up and down, click)

That's, what all our hope is about: to have the UI more functional and efficient
And it should start as soon as possible to let (old and) new players enjoy the game more:
Who wouldn't say, easy handling and fun is part of a decision to come back to something?

 

I also was pretty disappointed in the "new GUI". But hey what are we going to do about it.

 

i feel a little stupid, but after looking really closely at the current GUI Frames i discovered that there are actually frames around them
very tiny and partly. but like i said i did not even see them until now and i have been playing SOTA for 3 years.
But yes it is very very tiny