Big classic things

[Doors]

Yeah lets worry about game mechanics first.

[Toehammer]

I remember the first thing I thought back in Beta in 1998 was, what the heck I can only see 1/3 of the screen. I remember being annoyed at this because EQ is such a huge vibrant world, and constricting your field of view to make something "classic" is equivalent to tunnel vision, both in game and metaphorically.

Velious UI made the game more fun, more engaging to play, and that is what I feel like when I think classic.

old UI was utterly horrendous

[Roanoke]

Originally Posted by Toehammer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember the first thing I thought back in Beta in 1998 was, what the heck I can only see 1/3 of the screen. I remember being annoyed at this because EQ is such a huge vibrant world, and constricting your field of view to make something "classic" is equivalent to tunnel vision, both in game and metaphorically.

Velious UI made the game more fun, more engaging to play, and that is what I feel like when I think classic.

old UI was utterly horrendous

agree'd. wanting the old UI for the sake of having it is a waste of resources. not to mention how is that going to work with the masses of widescreen resolutions? do i get to have big black bars on each side of my screen to make up for the fact that it will only run in 4:3 aspect ratio?

[knottyb0y]

Originally Posted by Roanoke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

agree'd. wanting the old UI for the sake of having it is a waste of resources. not to mention how is that going to work with the masses of widescreen resolutions? do i get to have big black bars on each side of my screen to make up for the fact that it will only run in 4:3 aspect ratio?

If I remember right the "classic" UI had two views. the small window with the chat box your class icon, sells and the main menu open on the right side with health and hp. and the "full screen" UI you could access by hitting f10. Hotbutton banks only had 6 buttons, and there was only 1 chat box available.

Not that I dislike the current ui's available, but it would be interesting to see the old UI once more. I would most likely spend time in full screen mode unless the devs figure a way to support high resolutions.

[mokfarg]

Originally Posted by Doors [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah lets worry about game mechanics first.

I think the more correct statement would be: Let's let the volunteer unpaid developers worry about what they want to worry about first.