Goonhub
08-20-2022, 08:42 PM
Dear heavens, I most certainly wouldn't want ALL action-bars hidden.
Low-res spessman pixel game isn't exactly fully animated. Sometimes things that SHOULD be INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS need to be communicated.
It's not like I'd realistically fail to notice that one of the two people standing five feet away from me has someone in some kind of crazy wrestling crab lock and is choking them to death.
And TDHooligan makes a fine point about how when the chat box starts rolling, you'll never find out who is doing something incredibly obvious.
That being said, yeah, I'm sure there are things that could realistically be made less intrusive, or hidden when they should be better hidden. If mopping got a little swish-swish particle effect, we wouldn't need the action bar, for example. And, like, a few days ago I ran into a vampire hypnotizing someone. And, on RP, I was absolutely flummoxed how I could rationalize how I knew what was going on. Oh no, someone is staring longingly at another person! The fiend! Stuff like that should maybe be more private.
Or perhaps the action bars for more covert things could only be seen when you're directly next to someone, or within one or two squares.
Low-res spessman pixel game isn't exactly fully animated. Sometimes things that SHOULD be INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS need to be communicated.
It's not like I'd realistically fail to notice that one of the two people standing five feet away from me has someone in some kind of crazy wrestling crab lock and is choking them to death.
And TDHooligan makes a fine point about how when the chat box starts rolling, you'll never find out who is doing something incredibly obvious.
That being said, yeah, I'm sure there are things that could realistically be made less intrusive, or hidden when they should be better hidden. If mopping got a little swish-swish particle effect, we wouldn't need the action bar, for example. And, like, a few days ago I ran into a vampire hypnotizing someone. And, on RP, I was absolutely flummoxed how I could rationalize how I knew what was going on. Oh no, someone is staring longingly at another person! The fiend! Stuff like that should maybe be more private.
Or perhaps the action bars for more covert things could only be seen when you're directly next to someone, or within one or two squares.