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Resource bar mockups

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9 years ago
There still seems to be a lot of discussion about the new and old resource bars.

I'll throw in a couple ideas of myself with the following mockups.

I took the 3 existing resource bars and just rearranged them a bit in ms paint. All of the existing ones have good points but none is perfect ;-)

On the left are the original bars, to the right the mock ups. You can see the ones i like most.

I tried to keep the 4 income/expense numbers together. Then fiddle around with the bars, the Energy/Metal logos and net income figures.

From SF333s widget i removed the "NET" in the logo. These are additional letters that are distracting imo.

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9 years ago
I think all of them are too large. Especially in vertical space, considering that most monitors are low height and high width. Also font sizes seem rather large. What about using vertical bars with smaller fonts?
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9 years ago
I do like the vertical bars. Not like I ever thought the huge horizontal bars were an issue, but they undeniably block screen estate for no real gain. I guess shrinking them would also do the job, but as a new player I appreciated the prominent, familiar element in the UI.
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9 years ago
Why making yet another "resource bar thread", especially when a "mockups" one already exist :
http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/9446
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The "Me Likes" at the very bottom is quite close to the last thing I did before I showed it to AUrankAdminGoogleFrog and he went and made the current default's design (which I prefer due to it being less busy). The only difference was that net was below gross and the resources were aligned horizontally.
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