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Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 27 Jul 2017, 15:12
by eie
Maniaplanet's UI sucks.
Hylis wrote: ↑17 Jun 2010, 21:46
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away
(sorry for shitty image quality)
A few things Maniaplanet is doing wrong
Key points
- inconsistent interfaces
- jargon
- stadium's interface look clean; except profile which uses MP's interface
- not pictured: way to much animation in MP's interface
What Nadeo could learn from its previous games
Key points
- consistent interfaces
- simple and (mostly) clean interfaces
Ideally, Maniaplanet's interface should match Stadium's (and the other default title pack's) interface. As it is now, it is cluttered, user-unfriendly and is in need of an update.
naboo pls fix
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 27 Jul 2017, 15:44
by maxi031
It is not only menus, whole Mp thing is one giant mess.
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 27 Jul 2017, 16:38
by undef.de
The problems with the HUD has been reported already many times...
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 27 Jul 2017, 16:47
by hackie
Why always compare to TMUF , if you do like it so much why not play that instead.
This is a new game , its called Maniaplanet.
( ok , I agreed with the fact that the UI of MP is not at his best )
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 27 Jul 2017, 22:39
by Rots
hackie wrote: ↑27 Jul 2017, 16:47
Why always compare to TMUF , if you do like it so much why not play that instead.
This is a new game , its called Maniaplanet.
(
ok , I agreed with the fact that the UI of MP is not at his best )
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 28 Jul 2017, 14:16
by wasim04
Maniaplanet in general is extremely unfriendly to new users. The UI is all over the place, any explanation to anything is hidden in the documentation, which is also obscure. Nothing is told to the player. Titles (which are probably the main part of maniaplanet) and titlepacks aren't even explained. Nadeo, if you want people to buy your games, you need to tell users what they're buying.
I personally think they're should be a small tutorial, simply showing what everything is.
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 28 Jul 2017, 15:28
by eie
wasim04 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2017, 14:16
I personally think they're should be a small tutorial, simply showing what everything is.
If the UI requires a tutorial, something is horribly wrong. Good UI should be intuitive to use.
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 29 Jul 2017, 00:30
by TMarc
Then please have a look here:
https://doc.maniaplanet.com/
The documentation was reworked and is constantly being updated.
If you want to help and provide a understandable documentation, you could contribute
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 29 Jul 2017, 21:22
by eie
TMarc wrote: ↑29 Jul 2017, 00:30
The documentation was reworked and is constantly being updated.
This thread was aimed at the unintuitive and schizophrenic UI of Maniaplanet, not its modding features. While those features are great and have good documentation, it doesn't make the UI userfriendly for beginners... The topic of this thread isn't lack of features or support for them, it's how different the UI for every part of Maniaplanet is, and how this is obstructing new players from participating by creating a very steep learning curve.
Re: Unified Maniaplanet UI?
Posted: 29 Jul 2017, 23:48
by TMarc
You are asking for a tutorial, and the Maniaplanet documentation page is the right place for that.
The wiki was merged there and it also explains the client.
Now it is up to the users - to us - to mention where there is a lack of documentation.
And you can even write documentation yourself, and if it is good enough, it will be taken.
Do you want to help, or only complain?