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    Premium Member Yertle
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    The whole Board page could be improved by showing Continents/Borders/etc. (or am I missing something here?)

    It would also be nice if clicking on the Continent Bonus of the Info page of a Game brought up the Map image (of the game) with that Continent highlighted. 

    The drop down menu for the list of continents of the Continent page is not too friendly either.  You have to know what your looking for without knowing the information.  Maybe clicking on a country somehow shows the list of continents that it is a part of and then you can click on continents in that list to see all the territories of that continent?

     

    The Rules pages of the Board and Games, either involve clicking mutliple times to see the info, scrolling, or closing windows.  Rules are separated nicely (for some reason I think Starting Scenario should be first, but probably don't have a strong reason for that), but it seems like the pages that I have seen there is quite a bit of "empty" space on the webpage and the rules could easily be in 2 columns (maybe more as time goes on) and eliminate the unnecessary need for clicking and/or scrolling.

     

    Just a few more observations, and quick thinking (meaning I may not have completely thought through anything :)).


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    Premium Member Yertle
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    In addition, it seems like the Territories and Borders tab should be combined. going to the Territories tab, looking at what borders a country and then going to the Borders tab is a lot of work (for lazy people) just to see the border information. It would also be nice for the names of the countries that a territory can attack to displays in the area where it says "Showing attack borders from ...", a simple colon at the end with the country names of those it is able to attack to would be nice.


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    Enginerd weathertop
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    I like the arrows showing where it can attack to; having something similar of where can attack from would be good too (especially when getting into maps that don't have two-way borders).

    i think you can show all the territory/border options with enhanced flash graphics. the arrows can be one/two headed; the arrows or desination circles could be different colors depending on dice modifiers (red for modifiers worse than normal, green for easy, yellow or black or something for normal).

    on the continents page, should be able to click a country and it highlight all the countries in that continent in addition to the pull down.

    Edited Mon 9th Nov 16:32 [history]

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    Deceit by Design Wallace Wishmaster
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    I agree that combining the Territories and Borders tabs would be nice. As weathertop suggested, you could change the color of the arrow based on the modifier. Would it be possible to hover over a border and see the modifier details without additional clicks? That would be nice.

    Edited Tue 10th Nov 13:56 [history]

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    Commander In Chief tom tom is offline now
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    Yep I like these suggestions, that area of the Player can definitely be tidied up. I was struggling to think of a good, intuitive way to show border modifiers, initially I had double headed arrows where the arrow at the end was the border direction and the second arrow was red or green depending on the modifier but it looked messy. Simple colored arrows is probably the best way to go.

    ps weathertop - you can see territories that can attack from by clicking on the 'Attack To' button.


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    Commander In Chief tom tom is offline now
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    Actually now I remember the problem - if you use colors, then if you have a two-way border with modifiers in each direction then just coloring the border don't make sense. Hence you need the extra colored arrow at each end of the border to show the direction of the modifier.


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