Ongoing - UI updates

[Dr Vegapunk]

Is it possible to add 'mass ship upgrade' after you click on ship symbol?. Currently you need to click on one of the ship on the list to enable the page for this function.

[Captain Jack]

Thank you Vegapunk, this is exactly the kind of Feedback we are looking for.

On other new, Redesigned Court page is now live.

There are a few additions pending - not necessarily in court page but still relevant - which will be completed later today.

[Dejanira]

CJ in the Active Ports page, in the stock column there is a doubled M. Like 130MM instead of 130M.

Edit:
No, sorry. Everywhere there is a double M.

Edit n.2
Also in the Governor page there's "meet the son", but in Court page there's "meet the daughter"

[Captain Jack]

They are now fixed, thank you Dejanira.

Do you like the new design?

We updated a few more things. Like we moved the title/loyalty indication to Meet the Governor page. We made Chancellor only to appear to Admirals or better. Similarly, if you already built a Hideout, since it takes a place at the left menu, the link is then eliminated from there. We made some further cosmetic (colors/borders/spacing) improvements.

We still have some relevant stuff on this one.Like, right now, we still do not list the Fleet Movement (How many fleets visited today and the number of cargo crates).

I am thinking to relocate this to a separate page through a link at the Market page. Perhaps we can add some more relevant info there. We also need to get rid of the Market Overview page there as the provided data is now outdated due to how resources are now produced. We will hopefully finish all these and a lot more tomorrow.

[Grimrock Litless]

Can you add a way for people to change fonts styles and certain colours for words?

Eg.
Upload and use your own font styles!
Sans > Script
Orange > Red
Light Blue > Green

[Dejanira]

Do you like the new design?

Very much

We made Chancellor only to appear to Admirals or better.

This one gives more importance to ranking in a Nation, I like it.

[Captain Jack]

UI updates are progressing faster than we originally anticipated.

The major highlight today is the removal of the right hand menu from the HeadQuarters page. This has been a primary objective and it is now accomplished.

We are currently improving the style of the left hand menu.

We will slow down major UI updates as we do want both you and us to get accustomed to the new changes before implementing more.

[Captain Jack]

The next page we want to improve is the plunder page. Here are the ideas on the table:


1)Part One: 1 page for every attack type

There will be a top navigation menu to switch in between PvP Plunder, NPC Patrol and PvP Skirmish. The game will always remember your last visited page so when you click Plunder, it will open the previously used page. This will reset on port change and it will default to Plunder.

So, for example, let's say that someone wants to Skirmish.
Step 1: He will have to Click at Plunder and then Click on Skirmish tab. This will open the skirmish page.
Step 2: He will attack the fleet as normal.
Step 3: Once he clicks Plunder again, the Skirmish page will open without the need of clicking on the Skirmish tab.

2)Part two: Extra pages at top menu

In an effort to also get rid of the right hand menu there, we propose two more tabs at the navigation menu. The navigation menu will be text and perhaps it will also have small icons.

A) Bounties
The link from the right hand menu, will just be moved there.

B)Help Page
At the help page, we will put all the links to how plunder,patrol and skirmish works.

We will also show images in how the menu works. Specifically, we have two links at the right hand menu we can get rid off:
-Voodoo
-Fleets

as both of these links exist at the header image. Specifically, if you click the Pirates Glory logo, you get the same as what the voodoo image link gets you.

Similarly, the Fleets image link takes you to the HeadQuarters -> List all fleets options which is also linked by the Ship at the header image, right above.

This is not a piece of info that all players now, especially newcomers. Some might have been using Voodoo and Fleets images so far and this needs to be addressed in the transition.


3)Part Three: Remainin gright hand menu links

There are three remaining links there: Captain's Log, Battles and Enemylist. Perhaps at step 1, we can let them there till we come down to what to do with them. 3 links there - all of information nature will not really bother. Although we will lose some extra space we could gain there.

Ideas are welcome as well as feedback and review of the ideas I described here.

[Dejanira]

Captain Jack, now that you are reorganizing pages... what about a better balance and savings page?

Player's savings are by now in three pages: Treasure Hunt for buried savings (this sounds strange, to click on a page named Hunt to see my buried gold), Bank Accounts and My Bank (this is kind of strange too, that the page named Bank Accounts only lists accounts in somebody else bank, not mine).

The same happens with income gold. Now it is part in Trade Report and part in Plunder Balance. But a balance should cover every single earned coin... or spent! As there are expenses never listed, like gold spent in upgrading warehouses, or in building ships... money that is actually spent, but it is not listed in a balance as an expense.

The optimum would be a single Balance Page with all the earnings from plunder / treasure hunting / scraping ships / trading... and as well all the expenses done in warehouses / shipbuilding / technologies / lost battles...