User:Cannonfodder/QoL Wishlist

User Interface Improvements

From Beginning to End

GAME LAUNCH

• New: Ability to adjust Graphics & Audio settings before character load

CHARACTER SELECTION

• Better explanation on unlocking "server" vs "global" slots.
• Labels all non-VIPs as free players (some will be Premium)
• On the character select screen, have the character rotation arrows appear lower or the avatar appear higher, in order to not interfere with screenshots of the avatar

CHARACTER CREATION

• Character creation and Paragon Market windows should be able to swap between window scale ratios 4:3 and 16:9

ARCHETYPE

• The Inherent Power (Fury, Vigilance, Gauntlet, etc.) of each archetype needs to have it's own entry/box/header

CUSTOM

• Powers' colors should default to the "standard" colors on the current pallet if possible, especially for the alternate animations

REGISTER

• New: An option for "A" and "An" as well as "The"
• New: Alternate Language options for "The" such as "El" or "La", etc.
• New: Alternate Language options for "A"/"An" such as "Le" or "La" , etc.
• Character bio both in Registration and on the ID card needs an editor that won't mangle and displace text

OPTIONS

GENERAL

• Option Settings, Window Layout, Chat Settings and Keybind Profile, Save and Load buttons should all be moved to the top of the General Tab
• Put all the "Load from default file" buttons on the same side
• There could be a short tutorial/tool-tip/loading screen tip explaining to players how to set and save the interface settings.
• Window layout should remember whether the main power tray window has 1, 2, or 3 rows showing.

TEAM OPTIONS

• Prompt Team Teleport: "Disable Team Teleport" for consistency
• Collaborative Missions: "Disable Collaborative Missions" for consistency
• New: "Disable League Teleport"
• New: "Disable Supergroup Teleport"
• New: "Disable Supergroup Resurrections "

RETICLE

• New: Character Badge Title: An option to view another character's badge title. Show Always, Show on Mouse Over, Show When Selected, Show When Selected or on Mouse Over, Hidden
• New: Supergroup Rank: An option to view a character's supergroup rank floating above their head beside/below the supergroup name. Show Always, Show on Mouse Over, Show When Selected, Show When Selected or on Mouse Over, Hidden
• New: Character Faction: An option to view a character's faction (Hero, Villain, Rogue, Vigilante, Loyalist, Resistance) by their name. Show Always, Show on Mouse Over, Show When Selected, Show When Selected or on Mouse Over, Hidden
• New: Display an icon (star?) above any team leader's head, next to their name, so that even those not teamed with them can see it (and therefore know who to ask for an invite to a team).
• Ability to hide the new contact arrows floating above contacts heads

WINDOW

• Hide the Base tab in the Salvage window
• Hide the Component tab in the Salvage window

CHAT

• Filter Profanity: "Hide Profanity" for consistency
• Chat Balloons: "Hide Chat Balloons" for consistency
• Show Villain Private Chat: "Hide Villain Private Chat" for consistency
• Show Villain Broadcast Chat: "Hide Villain Broadcast Chat" for consistency
• Show Villain Local Chat: "Hide Villain Local Chat" for consistency

PETS

• Show Pets Window Option: "Hide Pets Window Option" for consistency

PROMPTS

• Pop Help: Rename "Hide Pop Help" for consistency
• Automatic Pop Popups: Rename "Hide Automatic Pop Popups" for consistency

MISCELLANEOUS

• ToolTips: "Hide Tooltips" for consistency
• Classic Team UI: "Disable Classic Team UI" for consistency
• Lock Powers in Tray: "Disable Locking Powers in Tray" for consistency
• Loading Screen Tips: "Hide Loading Screen Tips" for consistency
• XP while Exemplared: "Disable XP while Exemplared" for consistency

STATUS WINDOW BUFF DISPLAY

• Hide the buff/damage numbers floating above heads

GROUP WINDOW BUFF DISPLAY

• Hide the buff/damage numbers floating above heads

PET WINDOW BUFF DISPLAY

• Hide the buff/damage numbers floating above heads

GRAPHICS AND AUDIO

CHAT BUBBLE COLOR

• New: Add Text Transparency: Slider from 0-100%
• New: Add Background Transparency: Slider from 0-100%
• New: Add Chat Border Color Red: Slider from 0-100%
• New: Add Chat Border Color Blue: Slider from 0-100%
• New: Add Chat Border Color Green: Slider from 0-100%
• New: Add Chat Border Color Transparency: Slider from 0-100%
• New: Add Chat Scale: Slider from .6 to 1.25
• New: Add Chat Duration: Slider from 0-20 seconds on screen
• New: Select Chat Font: A selected list of common True Type fonts

TARGET

INFO

• On the character information box have another tab for Supergroup which brings up the SG motto, description, MOTD or the character names of the highest ranking members of the supergroup.

STORES

• Create a "sell all enhancements" button with confirmation box option.
• Create a "sell all recipes" button with confirmation box option.
• Create a "sell all salvage" button with confirmation box option.
• Create a "hide unuseable enhancements" check box in store window for the buy pane.
• Tabbed store inventory. For example, Training in one tab, DO's in another. Another example: Ghost Falcon/General Hammond: Tabs for Mutant/Magic/Science/Technology/Natural.

NAV

MAP

• Allow the black area surrounding the map to be made dim-able or transparent.
• When entering a zone, have map revert to last zoom factor you had it at in that zone. For example, when coming into IP from Steel, map zooms to halfway, the same place I had it zoomed the last time I was in IP. I next go to Brickstown (where the last time I was there my map was at 3/4 zoom) and my map goes to 3/4 zoom.
• Center maps on character when zooming in or out.
• Ablity to see supergroup members and friends list members on map like you can see teammates and leaguemates, with a toggle in the map display to turn these two markers on or off.
• Map icon for Icon changed from the default 'dollar sign' to a a lowercase "i" with a blue circle around it (the actual Icons' logo).
• Map icon for the Facemaker changed from the default 'dollar sign' to an "f" with a red circle around it. The red coloring would help distinguish it from Ferries and the lowercase "f" would work fine for those who might be color-blind.

NPC DIALOG

• Allow NPC dialog screens to accept the window opacity settings of the rest of the UI

TRAY

• Make Inspiration tray flexible and bendable like the power trays with pre-configured layouts. (2x10, 4x5, 5x4, 10x2)
• Put "Manage" on the power tray not on the enhancement tray itself.
• Make the HP/END/XP bars the same length as the power and enhancement trays.
• Allow HP, END, XP, Tray 1, Tray 2, Inspirations, Enhancements, Tray 3, etc. to be docked together and moved as a unit.

POWERS

• Possible New Display Option: 5 Column display: Primary, Secondary, Inherent (including Inherent Fitness), Power Pools, Other Powers (Accolades, Incarnate, Temporary, Day Job)
• Possible New Display Option: 4 Column display: | Primary with first, then second power pools underneath || Secondary with third then fourth power pools underneath || Inherent with Inherent Fitness and Ancillary/Patron Power Pool underneath || Day Jobs/Temporary/Incarnate/Accolades |
• Possible New Display Option: Tabs: Primary/Secondary, Inherent/Power Pools, Accolades & Incarnate, Day Job & Temporary
• Possible New Display Option: Selection Options: Hide Temporary, Hide Incarnate, Hide Accolades, Hide Day Jobs, Hide Inherent, Hide Ancillary/Patron Power Pool, etc.
• The ability to change the height and width by dragging borders
• The ability to change the scale from within this window

ENHANCEMENTS

• Allow more than one enhancement to be deleted at a time.
• Enhancements Ordering: Rarity Ascending, Rarity Descending, Type Ascending, Type Descending, Name Ascending, Name Descending,
• Allow for certain types of enhancements to be auto-deleted upon drop, via a filter. For example, set the filter to: delete all training, delete all DOs, delete all reds, delete all enhancements not usable by this charater due to origin, delete all DO enhancements not usable by this character due to origin, delete all training and DOs, etc.
• Make DOs/SOs a character cannot use due to origin incompatability display in a color other than green, blue, yellow or red. Maybe orange?

MANAGE

• A "quick" combine interface. When a hero has 50+ enhancements to buy and then combine, the accumulated time for the screen to change, then calculate percentages, then the combine animation to take place is too long. Please give us an "expert" version that has a faster interface.
• The Manage Enhancement Screen should be adjusted to reflect any new Powers Window layout.

INSPIRATIONS

• Outline a queued inspiration in red similar to queued powers.

SALVAGE

• Ability to hide the Base Salvage tab
• Ability to hide the Component Salvage tab

CHAT

• Move the friend online announcement to it's own chat channel and/or do not announce friends that are on your team.
• Have members of your supergroup and/or supergroup coalition that log on be announced a la a friends announcement.
• Sound to accompany supergroup and coalition chat messages (as with Team, League or Private messages).

TEAM

PET

• More pre-made pet macro icons.

LEAGUE

• League window should remember how it was set last time it was used.
• League window should have option for "Classic Team"

FRIENDS

• Server friends should at least show the information that global friends shows (Status, Map, Level, Archetype, Faction, Team Size)
• Global Friends should have an option to 'stick' with the expanded view or show the expanded view by default as an option
• Global Friends should have a Faction Column added
• Server, Global Friends, Global Ignore and Global Chat Channels should show Player Rating and Player Notes and the ability to update notes/rating even if the player/character is offline
• New "Custom" column in server and global friends lists. Players could input their character's battle-cry, time they normally play, if they are on vacation, etc. in this space to show up on other people's display.
• Ability to quickly and easily add all supergroup members to your Friends or Global Friends lists
• Tab interface option for friend window, in addition to the current drop-down menu selection
• Friends should remember which list you looked at last rather than opening to a default server friends

SUPER

• When you get an invite to a supergroup, it should tell you the name of the supergroup, rather than just the name of the character inviting you
• Allow columns within the supergroup display window to be toggled on/off (origin, etc.)
• Use the color scheme from LFG/Search to show if a supergroup member is teamed, solo, on a full team, is a team leader, or looking for team, etc.
• Add "custom" column to the the supergroup display window. Players could put character's battle cry, time they normally play, if they are on vacation, a message to the supergroup, etc. in this space
• Links to Player Ratings and Player Notes for each character in the supergroup display window and the ability to update notes/rating even if the player/character is offline
• Add Global Chat handles to the supergroup display window. A player would have to check the "Display Global Chat Handle" box in their supergroup options. If they check the box, then their Global Chat handle will appear in this column, allowing players to see which alts belong to which players.
• A count on roster list (1-150) in the supergroup display window
• Gender-specific titles. In other words, right now, it's really difficult to use, as an example, an aristocratic theme to your SG titles. Say the leader was 'King' ... it'd be nice if you could have a 'Queen' option for a female leader. 'Duke'/'Duchess' for captains, etc. Think $heshe, $himher, etc.
• Add all the character emblem options to the supergroup emblem options

EMAIL

• Ability to email a group of people (like your whole supergroup, your whole friends list, etc.) using one address (@sg?)
• Ability to re-size the upper portion of email window.
• Ability to sort email by date, by subject, etc.
• Tool-tips for "Account" and "Character" items
• List pane should have the option to mark/select messages you wish to claim. In Account (All Characters) the claim all should claim all selected rewards, as opposed to all rewards.

CHAT TABS

• More than 10 tabs.
• Tab labels block text. Please change them so they start from right to left instead of left to right so they do not block shorter messages.
• New: Team box needs to dock to the top of whatever attached, numbered tab is on top.

GLOBAL CHAT

• New: Two levels of channel operator, owner and operator. Owners can kick operators, operators cannot kick owners.

PARAGON MARKET

• Filter for items already owned
• Resize window