Interface

I'm so sorry, I had mentioned it several times while testing but never posted it to the forum. The new interface is just terrible. Instead of tapping one button to throw my resources back to the builders, I've got to tap... and move my mouse... and click. and repeat. for every resource I'm carrying. It's a pain in the ass. Pardon my french.

J'apologize, car j'ai fait dite plusieurs fois durant les tests, car je n'ai pas ecrite une poste sur la forum. Cette interface nouvelle soise une pain-in-the-ass. En lieu d'une seule pousse de boutton, j'ai maintenant besoin de pressez... puis de selectez et cliquez. Et de repetre pour chaque resource que j'ai rammasez. Pardon, j'y sois anglo.

There is no need for me to select which resources to toss. If I'm tossing stone, I'm also going to want to toss my wood. Also, I can't toss stuff over walls anymore....

I'm SO BLINKIN FURIOUS about the painful new interface. Seriously. What a terrible move, guys.

 

You no longer need to click; just a tap and a mouse swipe in a general direction.

 

I also liked the old version of item dropping more than this new. But maybe it's just matter of getting used to it.

 

I guess fury isn't entirely appropriate. But I think that you really should know better. You're good. I mean really good at this whole gamedev thing, but I just can't fathom why you'd complicate the interface like this, because it's a big part of why KAG has had so much success at such an early stage. I know it's tempting to add lots of "cool stuff" to the game, but if you do so at the expense of gameplay, then you might get more kids paying up, but you'll lose your best players. I'm not saying that there haven't been some wonderful improvements to this game (there HAVE been some wonderful improvements made since I started playing), but the thing I liked most, when I started here, was the simple game mechanics.

I'm worried that this signals a step towards overcomplication and feature bloat. Keep It Simple. I love this game and I've had so much fun playing it, every day, since word came out on TIG.

A bit ranty... but yeah. it's all there.

 

Have to agree, it was much easier to do everything before.. but, to its credit, these changes open the way for long-term improvements.

 

I too dislike the new radial menus for dropping items.
I disliked them in general when I started using them, but for most other things you need to select they're not much of problem.

Jumping and throwing items over a wall was a huge part of passing supplies, flag, hearts, you name it. You can still do this, but it takes a considerably higher amount of time and effort.

What if the radial menu were to select what type of block you wanted to drop, and pressing the button outside of the menu dropped it?
Kind of similar to the way picking up objects is handled. If you tap the pick-up key it just goes right ahead and does it. If you hold it down it brings up a menu of what you can currently pick up.

 

Its not that much of an issue since knights only pick up bombs, archers arrows and builders materials automatically.

The only time i pick up materials as a knight is if I am retreating back to heal up. I pick up materials on the way and drop at our base for the builders. Doesnt take that long to drop things still.

 

ahem... I'm sorry. It ain't so bad.