Goliath does not have reload flood bar

The reaper has a weapon reload flood bar but the Goliath does not. Is this intentional or has no one had the time to add on? It would be nice if the goli had one due to the 3.5s reload time.

I hadn't noticed that the reaper has a slower rate of fire... I thought they were the same.

Maybe the minimum reload time for a reload bar to appear should be reduced to 3 seconds. Three seconds can be really much in some situations. Mostly for ranged stuff - so you know whether a unit can still fire a shot before retreating/dodging behind an object.

I sometimes wonder when my reloadbar-less units will fire. I'm not sure, but from what lucky said these were probably Rockos or Hermits (Cudgel). And at least now I know why Scrubber and Skeeter micro is such a pain. They're both 3 seconds, just slightly below the minimum. (it's worse for Scrubbers, 'cause they have to be placed very careful, timing is important to get the most out of their piercing weapon when raiding)

Hmm, the more I think about this, the more I want it to be reduced to 2s.. Panther, Zeus, Leveler. Tarantula, Vandal. Gauss, Faraday, Hunter. They all made me wonder "What's their reload time!?". But then again, this would never stop. It's probably good where it's now. Or maybe this needs an option. *shrug*

is the reload bar hardcoded? maybe things like this (and other bars) might be customized via a setting?

+1 for 3secs relaod bar.

A custom option can be added in under a minute. The issue is what should be the default.

Screw the visuals. I want reload bars on my glaives. XD
(it'll tell me which glaive out of a group is actually shooting)

The option proliferation is only a problem because the menus are not logically arranged and far too deep.
Anyone who has tried to set options before will recall the "hunt which menu that option was in" problem. It can take > 10 mins to find an obscure option.

If the options menus were grouped together in player logical ways (and not game logical ways), that would solve alot of the problems with the options. There are currently too many sub menus and the division between the "gamepad" and the "spanner" seems arbitrary to the player.
I understand that Icon distance is an engine thing and thus is under the red spanner. But both Icon distance and Range circles are about presenting informaton to the player.
Options should be grouped by player usage, not engine/mod usage.

Even if you still can't remember where that particular little thing you vaguely remember was, you can at least guess which group it is in and hunt it. With a more logical and unified grouping, you'll only have to look through at most 2 groups.

>Graphics & Sound
>>eg. Text to Speech control
>>eg. Shadow and Water quality
>>eg. Camera

>GUI & Presentation
>>eg. LOS view ground colour
>>eg. Menu skins

>Icons & Information
>>eg. Icon view distance
>>eg. Range circles / unit states

>Unit AI
>>eg. Initial States
>>eg. Idle Nanos

>Hotkeys

Learn from the Pros: find a game with an options menu that is easy to navigate, and copy their structure. No need to reinvent the wheel on this one guys!

If you wanna work on epicmenu jseah please go ahead.

We need something more like the SC2 menu:

Options sorted into tabs, large menus with more options per page, proper use of check boxes (right now we have different buttons for 'x on/x off'), drop down lists (Say, for the Cameras), and scroll bars, rather than long vertical lists of buttons with words on.

It's okay for the options menu organization to be horrible. In fact, it's probably inevitable.

Just make sure the defaults work well for new players, so that the only people who ever need to use the menu are people who don't care how horrible it is.