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Atahualpa is offline Atahualpa
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Hawthrone
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time: 06:14
  Old Post 27-05-2001 22:56 Visit Atahualpa's homepage!
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Some rants Suffering from ads?

Ok first I admint I havent played much of Freeciv. But I simply can't complete a game for several reasons:

When there is a unit in a city selected, I normally in Civ2 press "Enter" and the city screen is brought up. Here in freeciv a new turn is begun. This is very annoying since I have learned it this way. A major reason why I get mad about the game.

Next thing is that I think its way too weak showing important messages in this message box. A quickly to close pop up window would do much better.

For example when I run over a hut, I have to look for the info. I dont think this is good design. The info should pop-up.

The graphics are fine the way they are. But well, I dont like GTK that much and it is not very game friendly. Its ugly and distracts a lot from the game. I dont know much about Gtk, so is it possible to make own buttons ?

And yeah, sound maybe nice too.

ATa

Thue is offline Thue
Freeciv Developer
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan 1970
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  Old Post 28-05-2001 04:39 Visit Thue's homepage!
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Re: Some rants Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

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Originally posted by Atahualpa
Ok first I admint I havent played much of Freeciv. But I simply can't complete a game for several reasons:

When there is a unit in a city selected, I normally in Civ2 press "Enter" and the city screen is brought up. Here in freeciv a new turn is begun. This is very annoying since I have learned it this way. A major reason why I get mad about the game.


Bad habit. Don't expect us to change the keys so that all other freeciv players will have to relearn their keys .
If it really bugs you then just change it in the source and recompile. Should be triviel.

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Next thing is that I think its way too weak showing important messages in this message box. A quickly to close pop up window would do much better.

For example when I run over a hut, I have to look for the info. I dont think this is good design. The info should pop-up.

Maybe.

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The graphics are fine the way they are. But well, I dont like GTK that much and it is not very game friendly. Its ugly and distracts a lot from the game. I dont know much about Gtk, so is it possible to make own buttons ?


Umm, don't ask me . But yes, gtk is ugly.

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And yeah, sound maybe nice too.

ATa


Yes.

Jing is offline Jing
Freeciv Developer
Toronto, ON
May 2000
time: 21:14
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Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

Just testing the new board!

MattHiggs is offline MattHiggs
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Apr 2000
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Suffering from ads?

Some very good criticism, and I have noted it, and will look into changing stuff and fiddling around.

Also changing the keys is really easy, just remember to recompile though

Darkstar is offline Darkstar
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Huntsville, AL, USA
May 1999
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Here's a suggestion...
why not make the keys user definable in the game itself? Then it's just a config matter for him.

Just a suggestion.

Last edited by Darkstar on 08-06-2001 at 11:56

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