Spiral Knights - OOO, Why The Sudden White-Out?

OOO, Why The Sudden White-Out?

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Thu, 04/04/2013 - 18:27

Immortous

Cyan...
It's the perfect color...
An aqua mist...
An azure haze...
Relaxing...
Blue...
Green...
Together...
But mostly blue...
Perfect...
Water...
Oceans...
Rain...
Frost...

A beautiful color...
And now it's gone from the SK UI system...
No longer will I see my cyan-dot self running in the mini-map...
No more will I see my name colored like so...
I took pride in my personal color...
That it was a beautiful and rare sight around haven...
But now it's gone...

What about yourselves? How do YOU feel about having your colors ripped away like that? How do YOU feel about playing in a white-out world?

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 18:43

Aekuryi

As a Cyan...

I agree. Personal colors should be more visible.

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 18:50

Spold

I'm yellow, but I feel the same way.

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 21:27

Hexzyle

I'm a Viridian, but I still

I'm a Viridian, but I still think personal colours should be somewhere. Like an outline to your dot on the map.

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 21:49

The-Dragon-Child

I'm Sky

I'm sky which used to be quite a rare colour and then OOO made it the standard colour for friends =_= fml

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 23:10

Glittertind

Immortous, you're spot on.
A friend of mine mentioned yesterday that I just don't look the same without my forest green name above my head... *Sniff sniff*

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 05:28

Nexassassin

Do Re Mi

You are my cyan shine
my only cyan shine.
You make me happy
when UI's grey.
You'll never know, dear,
how much I love you.
Please don't take my cyan shine away.

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 07:40

Immortous

Stand up for your colors, my friends!
Or your colours!
Depending on where you live!

Keep their memory alive... =(

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 07:42

Nuntis

A bright yellow, over here. I

A bright yellow, over here.
I guess the new UI has its ups and downs. The colorless-ness of which belongs to the downs.

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 08:18

Legend-Knight-Hadi

well

Sk did this for a few reasons,
A) to discourage stalkers
B) to discourage spam and trolling

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 08:25

#10

Nuntis

@Legend-Knight-Hadi

A) to discourage stalkers
B) to discourage spam and trolling
How is that even related?

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 08:32

#11

Diamondshreddie

PURPLE!!!

:D I LOVE PURPLE

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 09:33

#12

Spiralviperr

Skai Bloo ish duh besht

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 09:51

#13

The-Dragon-Child

@Legend-Knight-Hadi Noooo

Why did they foresee my strategy D: I always used the minimap to stalk my friends xD

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 10:52

#14

Immortous

@Hadi

Stalking is only a problem in-haven, and you can always ignore the stalker or switch havens if you're that desperate. And trolling has absolutely no significance here....=(

Cyan...
/sigh...

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 15:12

#15

Xtweeterx

I may be deep blue, but I

I may be deep blue, but I agree completely. But at least we still have the same old power complexes that give the CWs and dark navy blue ambiance with cyan lights.

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 15:14

#16

Grittle

I am Orange FOR ORANGEO!!

I am Orange

FOR ORANGEO!!

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 16:31

#17

Immortous

Cyan...

@Xtweeterx- Yes, there are some themes in the SK world that are cyan-colored, but it's not the same as being cyan-colored yourself.

@Everyone- This thread is not solely about the color cyan, it's about standing up for our personal colors. Whether your Yellow, Viridian, cyan, or any other color. It's about supporting what we love.

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 16:52

#18

Bzzts

This feels very politically correct on 000 part.

Everyone is equal as we all are the same colour so no chance of discrimination?

I think I'm cyan too (is it the colour that exactly matches mercurial?) And I miss my blue name too ;(

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 17:16

#19

Skold-The-Drac

lime green

Although my green 'hawk still stands, I miss multicolor dots.

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 17:19

#20

Immortous

Cyan...

"This feels very politically correct on 000 part. Everyone is equal as we all are the same colour so no chance of discrimination?" -Bzzts
What? We're talking about eye-color, armor-color, etc. You can't discriminate against that. This has nothing to do with racism.

"(is it the colour that exactly matches mercurial?)" -Bzzts
Mercurial is silver, not cyan....Cyan matches the color of energy somewhat. Look at the link I posted in the OP.

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 17:37

#21

Bzzts

Mercurial is cyan. . . Quicksilver is silver and my bad on the point I made, just can't seem to understandi why the did change name colours.

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 05:00

#22

Shue-Donnym

Actually, mercurial is silver, it's just got a cyan sheen.
Also, red here. I demand filthy capitalist American pigs give back the glorious emblem color of Great Motherland! Is sad day in USSR-era Russia.

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 09:57

#23

Immortous

@Shue

"Actually, mercurial is silver, it's just got a cyan sheen."
Thanks for backing me up, however...v

"I demand filthy capitalist American pigs give back the glorious emblem color of Great Motherland! Is sad day in USSR-era Russia."
Please refrain from spilling that offensive vulgarity all over this thread. Keep it on the subject at hand, which is...

WE LOVE OUR COLORS.... =(

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 12:46

#24

Sroell

Another sky here, but yeah. I

Another sky here, but yeah. I really miss all the colors in Haven. And if you're stalking someone based on their color dot in Haven, good luck. (Also, ur doin it wrong.)

And having all the names in Haven white? It's like a white out, particularly around the AH.

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 12:54

#25

Klipik

"This feels very politically correct on 000 part. Everyone is equal as we all are the same colour so no chance of discrimination?"

Think about it a little more... OOO made us all white.

/e runs away from the racism police

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 17:47

#26

Hsecudfhia

green here

i want my green back >.<

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 17:33

#27

Immortous

Cyan...

"And having all the names in Haven white? It's like a white out, particularly around the AH." -Sroell

THAT could possibly be the answer to our troubles here.....but it's all up to OOO.....=/

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 17:54

#28

Korakc

I miss my Emerald. And yeh,

I miss my Emerald. And yeh, the AH is pretty bland now. ;_;

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 09:25

#29

Immortous

Cyan...

Alright yall, I updated the OP and Title to be more in line with the problem itself.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 03:39

#30

Xtweeterx

The sad part is,

the only way to see anyone's name in color or their dot on the radar in color is by befriending them... I just found that out...

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 11:35

#31

Asthix

Asthix gives Immortous a big hug!

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 11:39

#32

Doctorspacebar

Node 53120 is credit to team

OOO, why would you do this? Why couldn't the new color scheme only be applied to the dot's outline, while preserving our personal color in the dots?

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 12:36

#33

Immortous

Cyan...

@Asthix- Dawwwww, thanks!
/hugs Asthix back
~
@Doctor- What exactly do you mean by the dot's outline? Like having a white circle around our personal color dots?

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 12:45

#34

Orangeo

OOO best not have messed up

OOO best not have messed up my color. Just now got to updating the game.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 12:52

#35

Immortous

@Orangeo

They did... ;_;

/hugs Orangeo

Good luck...

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 13:00

#36

Shamanalah

my 2 cents

+1 for color

Being white makes it really boring -_-

Why am I white? I paid 50k cr for a color for god sakes. I thought that blue was being used to much so I switched to purple and here we are -_-

o.O

Why......?

/sigh

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 13:40

#37

Immortous

@Shamanala

Yeah, OOO should at least refund part, if not all of what you payed for it...
~
Honestly, the new UI doesn't look all that bad. Sure it's a little too shiny (especially compared to the old one), and yes it'll take a bit of adjusting to, but I'm okay with most of it.
What I'm not okay with is the muting of all those colors into the white-out that we see now! Why was that necessary OOO??

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 13:48

#38

Dmatter

Although I agree with being

Although I agree with being able to tell where your friends are, I feel that they should just change the SHAPE of the circle on the map, and make a little column of light in haven so that you can find them, or something close to that. If I'm not purple, my name won't make as much sense. And I want it to make sense!

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 18:47

#39

Frost-Rogue

>:T

I agree.They just ripped our personality from us.They should atleast make our little arrow our personal color.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 18:55

#40

Klipik

Immortous, why all the sudden title changes?

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 18:58

#41

Arkate

Memories.

Boom. A flash of blue.
Blast. A flash of blue.
The blue, streaking across the map.
The blue of the sea.
The blue of my name.
I miss you blue.

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 09:17

#42

Arkate

Memories.

Boom. A flash of blue.
Blast. A flash of blue.
The blue, streaking across the map.
The blue of the sea.
The blue of my name.
I miss you blue.

EDIT: Thanks for the double post SK. You're a real Pal.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 20:27

#43

Burq

Why the change?

Because you touch yourself at night.

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 05:13

#44

Sandy-Knight

The fact that everyone's name is white means that you can't find people as easily. Nuu.

Also, Prestige badges are still personal-colour based, so why should the names not be?

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 06:02

#45

Shamanalah

my 2 cents

Honestly, the new UI doesn't look all that bad. Sure it's a little too shiny (especially compared to the old one), and yes it'll take a bit of adjusting to, but I'm okay with most of it.
What I'm not okay with is the muting of all those colors into the white-out that we see now! Why was that necessary OOO??

Honestly, the UI doesn't change the way I play. I can live with my knight portrait up there, I can live with my life/status up there, I can live with most of the new stuff they put in.

It doesn't make me wanna punch my screen and scream

But all this (insert swear word here to show frustration) is nonesense. I used to check the mini-map so much to see people colors and would know who was coming just by looking at the color and checking my social.

Now my friends are blue-ish and my guildies (who are also friends) are green lime... in the (insert more swear word here to show even more frustration) mini-map. I mean what the heck? Why is everyone dark-grey/grey/brown in my mini-map?

/sigh

I'm really disapointed in this. I thought I was the only (insert more swear words here) idiot that watched and used the (insert more bad words here cause I'm mad... bro!) mini-map. For god sake I'm a radar guy, I often only PLAYS with the radar (I don't even check the god damn screen, I just check the mini-map, orientate to *where* the mob should be to finally spot it after a long 5-10-20-30 seconds of only checking the radar)

Heck I even played a depth from the server test with only the radar since it was SOOO funny. (didn't die nor got hit if you wonder)

But with the new mini-map I have no clue where my teamates are and I have no clue who's where, who died, who didn't died and so on...

I'm a huge Halo Reach fan and honestly. I couldn't play SWAT because I wouldn't have my trusty radar to prevent Assassinations... I'm a huge radar fan, one of my eye always slightly look at it because it's what I've been doing for the past decades... Now my radar is only used to check enemy. Two weeks ago it was for checking my partner positions... -_-

Put back our color for god sakes!!!

-_-

Sincerely, a pissed off Knight

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 07:17

#46

Immortous

Cyan...

@Klipik/@Burq- Hmm, no. It's because I made this thread when all UI threads were being sniped by the GM's, so I simply called it "Cyan...". As more people supported it and the GM's cooled down, I changed it to "(Cyan..) Why The Sudden White-Out?". Now that this has gotten even more support, I finally switched it to what it is now, addressing OOO directly. It's all about progression.
~
@Shamanala/@Anon-Troll- I agree! I used to rely on my minimap so much to find out where friends were!
~
@Arkate- Nice poetry there.

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 10:18

#47

Koffin-Kat

Bring our personal colors back!

I agree with the OP, I think our names should still be seen in our colors in Haven.

The new UI brought a few changes for better and a many changes for worse (both visualy and regarding "user-friendliness").
Too bad now we are stuck with this UI for ever, because it's not like OOO listen to their players...

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 16:07

#48

Sroell

Hide and Seek

just got easier.

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 18:10

#49

Immortous

Cyan...

@Koffin-Kat- Thanks for the support! Maybe OOO will wake up one day and actually listen....
~
@Sroell- Yep. That was OOO's whole reason for changing the colors. Now we know yall, so let's call it a day....NOT! Support our Colors!

Sat, 04/13/2013 - 09:30

#50

Immortous

Cyan...

Hmm, are the mini's distracting people from our issue here? Don't let OOO make you forget about them that easily.

Just keeping it so that you can see your friends' personal colors like now isn't the solution. It should be like before where even if you didn't know them, you could still see their color. Being able to see your own color on the mini-map is something that should be reinstated as well.

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