Author Topic: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?  (Read 4501 times)

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When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« on: August 01, 2012, 03:10:33 pm »
Is this normal?  I swear just a few patches ago the wormhole the impending wave was about to come through was bright red.  Now it's hard for me to tell the difference at all (sometimes I can't).

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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2012, 03:14:08 pm »
Well, you can bring up the planetary map overlay (hold T in the default key mapping), and the wormhole flagged will be blinking.

On this issue, when the fix to make the flagged wormholes yellow instead of red (to help those with red-green colorblindness), only the close zoom sprites got changed to yellow while flagged. The far zoom wormhole sprites are still red, that should probably be fixed.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2012, 03:47:37 pm by TechSY730 »

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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2012, 03:16:38 pm »
Oh I see, when you zoom way in you can kinda see.
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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2012, 03:53:40 pm »
It looks like the wave is coming from Murdoch. The background might be messing with the wormhole though.
Anyway it should be red.
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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2012, 04:13:01 pm »
It's a brownish red, not a bright red. For "us" with green/red deficiency, it's very hard to tell the difference. But if you just zoom in, you'll see it. Also, it will blink on the "macro map".
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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2012, 04:26:51 pm »
I can't find the issue (I swear I saw it on mantis), but someone suggested a totally new graphical warning circling the warp point when a wave is detected incoming.  I heartily support that suggestion.

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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2012, 04:53:40 pm »
Something like four arrows circling in the same direction or something would be nice.  In other words, if you only saw the world in black and white you could still tell what was going on at a glance.
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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2012, 04:59:27 pm »
It's a brownish red, not a bright red. For "us" with green/red deficiency, it's very hard to tell the difference. But if you just zoom in, you'll see it. Also, it will blink on the "macro map".

Looking at the screenshot I honestly cannot tell which wormhole is the one the wave's coming from.

And I'm not colorblind (any colors)

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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2012, 05:27:50 pm »
It's a brownish red, not a bright red. For "us" with green/red deficiency, it's very hard to tell the difference. But if you just zoom in, you'll see it. Also, it will blink on the "macro map".

Looking at the screenshot I honestly cannot tell which wormhole is the one the wave's coming from.

And I'm not colorblind (any colors)

It's Murdoch. In that screenshot Murdoch's wormhole is a bit yellowish.
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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2012, 10:01:34 am »
Of course it's Murdoch.  It's ALWAYS Murdoch.  xD

More seriously: Some sort of graphic thing like blinking arrows would be awesome, as the yellow is definitely harder to tell apart from the normal green.

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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2012, 10:17:42 am »
Perhaps the indicator of what wormhole it's coming through is the text saying "Murdoch" ;)

More seriously, I've attached the two far-zoom images for the wormholes, the first one is green for normal wormholes and the second is yellow for "active" wormholes.
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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2012, 10:35:00 am »
Lol, ironically in an effort to change the game to be more friendly to a few colorblind people, it's become significantly more difficult for everybody else ;p
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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2012, 10:43:55 am »
Lol, ironically in an effort to change the game to be more friendly to a few colorblind people, it's become significantly more difficult for everybody else ;p

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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2012, 07:09:10 pm »
I have always supported using big flashing brackets around the wormhole.

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Re: When did advanced warp detection become so difficult to see?
« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2012, 07:26:52 pm »
I object to ASCII art. If it needs to be more obvious, I don't mind a graphical change.
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