Poll to return the old harvesting bar

So, do you prefer the fancy new circle or the actually visible bar?

 

I actually don't mind if its a circle or a bar, I just want to be able to move it. The bar could be moved. If I had to pick one, the bar was better, because it was more visible and less in the way.

 

I don't understand why it was even changed. Circle or bar don't really matter to me but why is it in the middle of my screen and why is it so bright? The color is bright yellow and then you succeed or fail and it bright red or bright green. It's really not that exciting. The bright red is like it's yelling at me that I fail or green is yelling at me that I made it, again not that exciting. A simple yes/No will work for me. I bet it's worse in a cave (haven't mined yet)

 

I am pretty sure I moved the old bar - there's a chance I am hallucinating this, but I did it unintentionally once and it was hidden behind my hotkey buttons for a long time.
If there's a technical reason why it can't be moved, could we at least perhaps put it lower to the ground nearer to the thing or thing(s) you are actually gathering / above your skill bar.
I'm not sure what the limitation is, but could this not be 'hooked' to the skill deck perhaps . I'm not sure why that particular UI window wouldn't be draggable (I still SWEAR I moved it before)
At the moment, if I kill a pack of wolves for example or anything, the circle 'fights' with all the 'name text' which are the same green/yellow which results in having to point my camera at the sky to see the percentage.

Again, I have no objection to the circularness, just the center-of-my-screen-ness. The circle's actually quite nifty.

 

The circle design is fine, I just would change some minor things; like leave only the number and move the circle above the node nameplate.

 

Its fine glad you liked.

I just wanted to post the edited image as a possible change reference, but I think the base design is good if your idea is to continue working on the UI overhaul for future releases.

 

I hate it.

 

I just would change the entire harvesting system which is one of the most boring i've ever seen !

If you need inspiration look at : the forest and Osiris new dawn (both are unity made games).

 

This is why modern games (and quite a few old games) with dynamic UI usualy have an extra "UI Settings option" in the options menu where one can move arround "frames" for each UI panel/element and then save to some .xml/.lua file or whatever.
Solves many problems and every player can move things arround however he wants to.

But this late in development it could be a fun task to add such an feature

 

just wrote and posted almost the same thing lol

 

I don't really have an issue with the change other than it needs higher res images unless its some oddness on my end.

I still want the status/hp bars to be moveable

 

so people where covering it and then complaining about it being covered ?

 

scenario one. I walk up on a group of fighter and wolves, I kill them all loot the fighters and then harvest the wood. wile harvesting I'm also scanning and plotting what to harvest next. Most likely it's the cotton bush over there then on to skinning if there is no ore in the area. The bar in the middle of my screen not only draws my eyes to it all the time but makes it harder for me to plot.
scenario two. I'm in Crag Foothills, I killed a few undead looted and moved to the pine tree to chop that bad boy down. Wile chopping I'm scanning that hill for that large ambush spawn of undead that can occur. I want to get the jump on that right away if I want o survive it. But there is a bar in the middle of my field of vision.
scenario three. Kill a pack of wolves standing in on place and watch the placement of the bar get lost in all the Elder Wolves Corpses.
The reality is when I'm out adventuring I'm also harvesting. I pick zones not only based on what I'm going to fight but also what I can harvest. If you take the time I play in an adventure zone you will find that if you harvest 90% of everything you encounter you will spend a great deal of time with that bar in the middle of the screen and your eyes drawn to it. I would much rather watch my avatar chop that tree or mine that ore. Where the bar was before it was only something I looked at when I wanted to look at it. Now I feel forced. http://sotawiki.net/images/a/ae/Maple_tree.jpg

 

I fully appreciate the fact that you spent the time and energy to try to come up with a new bar wile keeping all the little things in mind. I would love it if you can allow us to move it out of the way, top, bottom, left or right I can make due with any of them

 

My first feeling was that I didn't like the round version, but partly because I was first using a lower-res display and the one-pixel text outline didn't show up, so the text was hard to read where it overlapped the circle.

After thinking about it for a while, I noticed there is always a "Harvesting xxxx" text above the circle that was as wide as the bar would have been anyhow. In other words, there was no reason to make it round to save space, on top of overlapping the "xx% chance" text for no good reason.

And today I realized that when I'm harvesting, usually I'm looking at the bottom of the screen anyhow, because your character is usually kneeling or bending over during this, so your attention is already at the bottom of the screen. I suppose it makes a difference that I usually go in cursor mode and right-click to move the camera, because I'm not using that big X over my head to target things.

I don't mind it being in the middle of the screen, but I don't like it as a circle. I can't think of a good user experience reason to make it a circle, especially given the mostly horizontal layout of the screen nearby with the "Harvesting xxxx" text above it, and also that it kind of fits better with the HP bars we have above avatars/NPCs.

 

The shoe that fits one pinches another, there is no recipe for life that fits all.- Carl Jung Some people prefer the new way, some people prefer the old way. I personally don't care either way. On some things your just going to have to make the game you want to make.