meh, makes sense to me.

I do believe the benefits of having status icons would be universal, rather than limited to just colorblind people. At the moment, the only way to remember which vials does which is trying to remember which color does what. Fire and Stun vials are similar in color (yellow) and I tend to keep switching the two, as well as sleep and freeze ones (blue).

I'm guessing than when picking minerals you don't really care which color to take.

This is a good, sensible suggestion.

First reaction was how players who were colorblind would swap out the bilge pieces for different colors in Y!PP (other game), which was approved by developers/GMs.

Love the idea of the icons on the vials... even for non-colorblind people.

It took me awhile to remember what color did what (even though now it is pretty intuitive)

And the mockups look really nice, kudos xD

This is a splendid suggestion, and the new visual is pretty darn cool. I openly support this idea and hope it gets implemented soon!

I'm not color blind but when I started this game it was hard to tell certain vials apart. I also use a gamepad and using the mouse to hover over the vial is not practical during combat.

While it's easy for me to tell which vials do what now the small icons would've really helped when starting out.

Good suggestion and nice mockups.

It'd be great for other people who aren't necessarily colorblind, but just forget which colors are which. stuff like curse, fire, and shock I can recognize, but I have a hard time remembering which one's sleep and which one's freeze.

status symbol thingamajiggies for everyone! :D

"I'm not colorblind, and I still don't know what some of the flasks are. I can tell what color it is, but don't always know off hand which color means what status. I agree with the proposal to put a status icon on the flasks."

Agreed ^^
I'm not colorblind but I too have some troubles with remembering which color means which status.
I learned to recognize most of the flasks, but I'm still confusing the Stun, Shock and Sleep vials.

Also, the example icons OP posted look very very very good, and I think the Devs should certainly think about implementing this.

It's a good idea, and I support it, but as things are right now, the game folder only has 3 icons for status vials (T1/T2/T3 versions)- when an icon is needed in game, it creates an instance of that icon and changes to palette to match the status effect, or something along those lines.

What you're suggesting needs one of two changes - either a unique icon for every possible vial, or having the game merge the vial and status icons at runtime. One upsets the filestructure a little and creates redundancies, and the other needs entirely new code to be written.

I have to say, poking around in the files to check is this is possible was an interesting experience. I wanted to check if I could add your vial images directly to the game (it'd help me a ton, I'm colourblind myself) but with the current setup, it's impossible to even do that much. But while I was checking that, I found some fun things... though I'm not sure if OOO would like me talking about it, so ima keep quiet on that.

@OverDingle

I don't see why they'd object to you openly discussing something you found in the files... I guess it depends on if you found them using tools that are commercially and freely available or if the knowledge can be used for gaining unfair advantages over other players (like some way to change Mist or Crowns held).

if it's stuff like unused graphics/sounds/monsters, go right ahead. I like reading about that kind of stuff.

And a request for the .ai or .svg please? I am also incredibly in favour of this, my monitor makes reds and oranges really similar, and the little status icons are also perfect.

Not colourblind but agree with the concept