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Hey all, there has been lots of posts regarding my ports interface redesign and I thought I jump in.
So firstly I agree with the new design has lost some of its visual charm. It does look quite bland in comparasant, but overall I believe it's an improvement.
So mostly the reason why we reworked the interface is to remove lots of the legacy UI assets and old interface builders. Trying to clean up the overall UI system behind the scenes. This will provide big improvements to performance, maintenance and speed in the future. Also removing lots of custom sprites that POP had will also reduce cache size which will help desktop and mobile players.
Another benefit of using a template system is that if we ever decide to create a ports update in the future it will be much easier for new content to be added.
I have already completed a job that will hopefully go out next week which will fix a few bugs (resource icon and log issues in particular) and some tweaks to the positioning of some UI elements.
I will be looking at ports again in the future as there is still mobile issues which still need resolving. I will work closely with the UI team to try and restore the detail and visual identity of the interface without causing too many maintenance issues going forward. The discussion of splitting mobile and desktop interfaces will causes issues in the future with duplicate code and maintenance issues, we can find a middle ground between the two.
This is not the end of interface reworks. We are trying to get a constant base across everything from old quest interfaces to core systems.
If you're trying to be consistent, why on earth would you revert back the the tan/brown overly simple interface theme that almost all other interfaces have move AWAY FROM in favor of the new blue theme. Are you normally an osrs dev?
That's the legacy skin...
I agree, but more than that, can we get the ports book fixed so it shows currently active voyages by default? It used to be that you could click and immediately see if any ships have returned, and how long the others have left. Now it shows you your resources, but what's the point of seeing them if you're not even in your port to do anything with them?
Most players use the book for TPs and to check which ships need to be sent out again/how long is left on voyages, more often to check what POP resources they have available.
That was not intentional that will be fixed.
Well, I liked it a lot actually. I don't agree with most comments on the new UI. Aside from some actual bugs, obviously, like the wrong icons.
I have a bug fix job hopefully going out Monday that will resolve a number of issues people have raised.
Well added to the problem is its a real shame the legacy skin can only use the brown colour. The reason i use the legacy skin is cus its neat and tidy and actually looks nice thematically, i utterly hate how the new layout has like 100 windows and tabs all competing for space
But is there really any reason not to allow an option for the blue menu colour in either skin type?
I do want to decuple skin colour from what interface mode you have. All the mobile changes that i have been making will allow this to happen.