Can we get any information about future UI redesign?

[banan]

And Im asking because I simply dont belive something like that can stay in this game. In last update developer said that he want to change every core mechanic to the game so that he wont make any mistakes later. But besides core mechanics UI is also really serious problem.

The thruth is that user interface in this game is total garbage. Its too hard to learn this game because of this reason. Sometimes UI doesnt give you information you actually needs, and sometimes it is giving too many information you will never need in certain window. Because of how badly designed it is, manual managing of several products become frustrating.



Lets take for example window with list of product - I personally think this is the worst designed place of whole interface. For what reason there are so many products showed on start? If I am making products only on my own I dont actually need 10 product displayed at the same time, but rather bigger rows with full set of information and from what i remember If I have products that I have bought from other companies, then I cant even filtr them, I cant filtr IPs that have only one, bad quality product (because why would i want to even see something like that?). I cant show only products from certain IPs.

Or another good example - printing products. For some stupid reason, windows with the list of products, that you are actually printing and windows whre player is ordering psyhical copies arent connected properly. These windows are total unlogical mess.

List of things to do on the right side of the screen is stupid too. Developer actually made stupid restriction about size and what can be inside of them. For example If I am making new operating system, marketing it (press realease, hyping) and porting several of my products to this system then I can have very easly half of my screen occupied with information i dont even need. And yes, there are filters in this case (and made windows small) BUT If I want to see some of them, then Im screwed.



I could really write several times more about this problem, but then again - look at negative reviews and see that most of them are talking about same thing "Its hard to learn the game" (because you actually have to go throught one hour of tutorials that are nothing but tiring) and that interface is thrash, going through it feels like work etc.

[Waddles]

Why dont you ask core dumping?

[gGeorg]

Ideas for improvements fits here :
https://trello.com/b/9I286Mhu/software-inc
Ranting send here :
https://www.fox.com/

[Awesomely Oscillating Ocelot]

Honestly I disagree; I've got 593 hours in this game so I know the UI a little TOO well, but nonetheless it is not at all difficult to navigate or understand and it is already being pretty much pixel-for-pixel mimicked, so it must be doing something right -- although of course it's not a new style...

There are a lot of similarities between Software Inc.'s UX and that of 90s sims, albeit with 21st century QoL improvements in most areas.

[Dkid]

The UI takes an hour or two to get comfortable with. You are being ridiculous.

[banan]

Originally posted by Rocket Fox:

Honestly I disagree; I've got 593 hours in this game so I know the UI a little TOO well.

I played this game 240 hours for the last 2 years. Its not like Im new to this game. Everytime Im playing this game again I see insane amount of possible improvments to do. Even if I go throught changelog in Alpha 10 then Im only thinking why was these windows made in any other way in the first place? They are obvious flaws for person that played long enough to have big company.

Originally posted by Dkid:

The UI takes an hour or two to get comfortable with. You are being ridiculous.

Just read this again and you should see how laughtable this statement is (and exacly proving my point). You have to spend "only" 2 hours, so the time enough to never be able to get refund, to get comfortable with terrible UI this game have. Its not like in any other game that is considered good that learning UI is easy proccess that cant go wrong and the time you need to actually learn this depends on how much complicated this game is (and belive me - this one isnt really complicated).

[Dkid]

Originally posted by banan:

Originally posted by Rocket Fox:

Honestly I disagree; I've got 593 hours in this game so I know the UI a little TOO well.

I played this game 240 hours for the last 2 years. Its not like Im new to this game. Everytime Im playing this game again I see insane amount of possible improvments to do. Even if I go throught changelog in Alpha 10 then Im only thinking why was these windows made in any other way in the first place? They are obvious flaws for person that played long enough to have big company.

Originally posted by Dkid:

The UI takes an hour or two to get comfortable with. You are being ridiculous.

Just read this again and you should see how laughtable this statement is (and exacly proving my point). You have to spend "only" 2 hours, so the time enough to never be able to get refund, to get comfortable with terrible UI this game have. Its not like in any other game that is considered good that learning UI is easy proccess that cant go wrong and the time you need to actually learn this depends on how much complicated this game is (and belive me - this one isnt really complicated).

You expect to know ANY game like the back of your hand in 2 hours? The UI is very easy to understand, it might take a couple hours to start remembering where everything is without having to take a few seconds. If you're worried about refunding a $14 game then you shouldn't be here. You can tell within the first 2 hours if you will like this type of game.

[LatN's Strategy]

bnan; You need to correct your statement to: "It is hard for me to understand this game" Like Dkid said; I too have over 1,108 hours into this game and I think it did take about an hour or two of game play to learn all the menus and get a grasp of how the game should be played.

[LatN's Strategy]

bnan; You should take a few minutes go over to the guild page, read a few guilds, go back to the game and see if it does not improve your experiance with it; unless you are not open to change, In that case it's a completely different thing you are dealing with!

[banan]

Originally posted by Dkid:

Originally posted by banan:

You expect to know ANY game like the back of your hand in 2 hours? The UI is very easy to understand, it might take a couple hours to start remembering where everything is without having to take a few seconds. If you're worried about refunding a $14 game then you shouldn't be here. You can tell within the first 2 hours if you will like this type of game.

I was only quoting your words. But it seems that to simply disagree you have to even change words that both me and you said.
I never said about knowing the game perfectly after 2 hours. You said by yourself, "The UI takes an hour or two to get comfortable with." This statement is a joke and showing exactly how terrible UI is for game with so low level of complexity.

Originally posted by LatNWarrior:

bnan; You need to correct your statement to: "It is hard for me to understand this game"

No its not, stop putting words into someones else mouth to just disagree with someone. You prefer to imaginate things in your mind about other people and then make 2 post about it, by doing that only thing you can achieve is circlejerk.

This game is very simple, but UI is trash and like i said earlier - wasting important space on screen, and forcing player to do way too much clicks than should be neccesary. AND because of this you have to learn way more things for way more time than necessary.



You people cant even think of anything worth reading as a counterargument but some crying like " you are bad" and it seems dev doesnt even care about this game anymore, just look at the updates. Any important gameplay change is pushed as far as possible with no visible eta, thats how it has been for years now. Every new update is good and fun but only for like 5-15 minutes, and then you are dealing with same exacly problems.