suggestion about menu system

[Guest dyehardz]

suggestion about menu

It seems with current public-beta4 menu system,

it's kinda difficult to expand settings / gameplay mode.

Doing it will make the menu became more complex,

and complex menu can frighten new/average players.

Why don't we divide menu to 2 parts :

basic & advanced settings?

this is suggested basic settings :

1. host / players choose the settings

2. very easy / easy / normal / hard / very hard

3. all pick / all random / same random / tournament random

4. starting level at 1 (70 gold) / 16 (1000 gold) / 31 (xxxx gold)

5. OK, let's play! / I want to access advanced settings

if player choose "OK, let's play", all advanced settings

will set automatically to default/normal.

other settings should put at advanced settings since

most of it only attract advanced and pro players.

for example : competitive mode, chaos, extreme,

race mode, elements modifier, interest rate modifier, etc.

with this kind of menu, new settings / gameplay mode can be

implemented without frightening new and average player

because they usually only care about basic settings.

what's your opinion?

PS: if you want to have less menu in advanced settings,

you can combine some settings into 1 menu like below :

1. normal

2. race mode

3. competitive mode

4. race & competitive mode

1. normal

2. chaos mode

3. extreme mode

4. chaos & extreme mode

btw, although it's not quite popular, imho v3.0 race mode

is still a nice addition to this map.

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

i was actually having this same thought.

*thumbs up*

[Twilice]

Isn't race mode taken away? Or have I just skipped it so much I can't see it anymore?

[jolin012]

race mode is away

[Karawasa]

Interesting idea, reviving topic for discussion.

[Twilice]

This is how the menu could look, V0.001 so just skip all the name faults etc.etc.

EDIT: (before submited...) When I come home I will try doing something in paint instead cause right now I am in kinda rush and it will be to do a menu easyer when I'm home.

[holepercent]

the basic will probably be host pick/vote, difficulty, randomness, short mode..

all others can go into advanced.. this would allow for expansion to add new modes which may not appeal to all.. and allows for longer/3rd level menus for the really long mode settings.

and maybe have a 'quick' start with the most common mode combinations like -vhsr, -vhsrcmsm and a few others..

would be nice..

[Cisz]

That quick start sound interesting.

Like this:

(1) Let the players vote

(2) Host decides

(3) very easy for all

(4) normal for all

(5) very hard samerandom for all

[Twilice]

I got a menu now for basic.

Don't hesitate to give kritikts so I can improve the menu. If there is much wrong I can do another one Hope you liked v1.0

EDIT: look at the update.

[Cisz]

I like the vote and choose for the difficulty, I wanted that option for a long time. But I am against allrandom as a standard mode, this should be sr imo.

[Twilice]

I thought so to with allrandom, but it feels disorienting with samerandom.

Hehe swap samerandom to random, and allrandom to diferent random.

So should I start with the advanced menu now or uppdate this?

I got some new ideas for the advanced menu, I don't think it will be interfering with modes. Nothing big but you will se later when it is done.

[jolin012]

I am against allrandom as a standard mode, this should be sr imo.

Hehe swap samerandom to random, and allrandom to diferent random.

I think we're all agreed that SameRandom needs a namechange and allrandom a namechange or removal. Allrandom is far too much played and samerandom far too little played. And the option samerandom shall never be the dialog box under allrandom, rather over it.

for the basic optione, perhaps we shall also have superweapons there. yet it is a beginner mode aka fun mode. perhaps one more dialog box wouldn't hurt.

Else, I like what you've done here

[Twilice]

Okay I will add superweapons. But should the name be superweapons in the menu? Well I will stick to it for now. Next basic v1.1 coming soon. Advanced meny v1.0 coming soon.

EDIT: here it is

EDIT2: Look at the update.

[jolin012]

even though this is the basic settings I think random and SW should be able to be combined.

So what I sugguested wat to give supperweapons a Basic3 window...

And one thing for basic modes: Host is most likely a beginner and should get double time with each question.

[Twilice]

Oh, right I forgot

Yes I think the menu would be longer for all, I mean what if the host's laggs at start or something else.

Also " test for the best will be samerandom" or should it also get another poll?

Hmm I think I will need to continue this post tomorow there is a storm here

[Twilice]

So, there were no lightning, anyhow here is another update of the basic menu.

Basic Menu V1.2

[Twilice]

Here is the advanced menu.

Ofcourse you will have menus that decide if it will be a vote mode on or host decides.

Or ofcourse if basic or advanced.

EDIT:

I had to made everything to black'n'white (everything were already black'n'white....) but it lost some information on the image but I hope you still can se what it says