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after a long absence i made a new video.

Daywalker vs GoogleFrog

After watching that vid, I have to say that I think Cap really screwed up by not spamming Banishers. Everything Daywalker was making was counterable by Banishers.

Glaives
Ticks
Zeus
LLT
Defenders
Gnats
Banshees

Don't know what the point of the Reapers and Golis were. They didn't seem to make cost and are both pretty bad vs. Glaivespam. Easy to second-guess from a spectator's point of view though. Anyways, it was very fun to watch. A good 1v1.

It was bold going tanks and not spamming cons. That is like their best unit.

me vs godde

http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/119513
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/119509

Overall useful. Watching it and taking notes:

I think it would be better to not morph com for e-cell. This is confusing. Not everyone does this morph and a solar based economy is simpler.

It is not obvious when you have paused the game, this is confusing.

Apparently a flow based economy is confusing so more time could be spent explaining the basics.

I think the basics of early economy are to match metal and energy income while expanding. Is this said or focused on?

The video takes a while and I don't think it is particularly focused.

For videos in general it would be really nice if you could use the default UI and settings. It is the UI which new players will see and yours looks completely different.

There is a default widget which lights up when there are idle workers.

On hotkeys; every structure has a hotkey built into the default UI. That could be used as well.

That is quiet interesting point actually.

Games shouldn't be about graphics, this is not about graphics. Icons make the game so much clearer. We can't lure new players with fancy graphics they are outdated and most of them are just plain ugly in comparison to the commercial titles. The icons and ability to make it all abstract is one of ZKs strong selling points.

Red Comet and CCR are such nice maps because they are so dull texture wise. Everything is so clear. I might be one of the few who actually enjoys the old ccr more than the new one. Trees are hardly a good feature in spring maps because they introduce a lot of randomness too.

If i play like this it might actually encourage new players to play with icons more too.

The default ZK-ui is pretty bad from what i recall from the last time i used it. The camera is unresponsive, it has all sorts of unintuitive features like autogroup unit AIs and the gesture menu is also pretty bad (please correct me if i'm wrong if any of this has changed. I haven't used it for at least 1.5 years). I think it would be best to use a very minimalistic interface with basic controls and let the player add helper widgets when they learn the game. Close to Springs default UI, but with the ZK look.

It is not that computer games don't need graphics, a strategical overview is a type of graphics of it´s own. But we shouldn´t emphasize it too much.

I can increase the icon distance a bit for a tutorial video though it isn´t that much of a problem.

But it still a funny fact that a game plays better with icons most of the time. I guess it kind off depends what it is you enjoy in a game.

I think you need reduced icon distance if you are going to zoom out because it is impossible to see what you are looking at when you are at a certain distance in that particular video.

I wasn't really asking you because Floris has changed a lot more than chat and build. We'd want a new thread you want to try and convince Licho to disable the conflicting widgets by default.

Did you try the default UI just before posting? The radial menu is only accessible via 'B' or if you right click with a single unit selected which is a builder. The bubbles are significantly smaller than they used to be.

Update with new games between JamesBond (A.K. the abominable conman) vs W4rl0ck (A.K. the abominable tickman)

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