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Chavex, post: 443, member: 155 wrote:

Yeah the 20 year old UI definitely isn't friendly for modern monitors. Folks running with ultrawide monitors and stuff like that are even worse. Sadly there isn't a ton of tools to mod the UI, and its pretty much a glorified text editor. I too would like to see something where we could evolve the UI a bit, but would definitely need more hands on deck to get that accomplished in a timely manner. There are some mods out there already that increase font size and such, (google vanilla nosquint mod), but that would be unsupported by us if issues arose with it.

Thanks that's to be expected. I'll look nosquint up. One option for funding mod work and support is crowd funding and if advertised across all 5 version of SWG a tool adaptation may reach quorum. I'm someone who studied crowd funding. If advertised to googles nosquint team we get a bigger base.
I suspect you have all heard of SW battlefront Classic Edition and its huge remaster. That will lead to a remaster of SWG if successful and its topping preorders on steam but its 50 gig! That has the same menu issue. SW Battlefront and SWG share some meshes and textures.

Chavex, post: 415, member: 155 wrote:

I'm confused, discord is saying that or the game? I just checked the game and was able to login normally. Where exactly are you getting stuck?

Its all working now I suspect the up dates you made took while to register at my end. It was on the discord popup. Discord can sometimes lag a bit because I'm on the wrong side of the planet from everyone else. However the game handles Australia OK and does not lag. I am seeing thinks pop in but that's happening on the videos I see of other people playing it. I have already found two quest bugs to report so I'll find the bug tracker.

The sound of ships patrolling and taking off and landing gets repetitive fast. I found I could mute it with one of the effects sliders but that also leads to silent guns, beasts, etc. Assuming the sound channels are not hard coded. can the patrolling ships be shifted to a separate channel with an independent slider/ mute. If the game designs any good the should channels should just be a set of sound file lists. But then this is an old old game by most standards.
I hope I'm not being a pest asking as I'm so new but we are meant to be alpha testing this design. I'm a very old crash test dummy. I did minecraft and pre-date the creeper there.

I have old eyes and find the menus hard to read. I can't see what it says some of the time. Is it possible to have a full screen button that puts the text in a much bigger box that can then be read? The font needs to be at least triple the size. With the box being at least half the screen. Still being able to see the world at the edges might be nice but not essential if the health bar is still visible. Its a very wordy game but the tiny text boxes and font makes it harder. I am assuming that's not hard coded. If we could hit a full screen option on the inventory with scaled items and font there that would also help. I don't need to see the character all the time in that window.

Wesleybruce, post: 414, member: 1012 wrote:

Thanks testing. It says login server is still down right now. Either its still spinning up or its lost my login in the process. I'll try again in a few minutes.

I'm in!!!! I see Han. And tiny fonts. Yikes.

Chavex, post: 411, member: 155 wrote:

I just updated the invite link, please let me know if its not working. Thanks for letting us know. Welcome to Evolve!

Thanks testing. It says login server is still down right now. Either its still spinning up or its lost my login in the process. I'll try again in a few minutes.

Wesleybruce, post: 409, member: 1012 wrote:

Where's the discord link? I'm new. I'm in Australia so lag will be a question. My brother made the undersea optic fiber links to the world but people keep putting the ones on land in war zones and beside pacific volcanos. Derp. I'm a big star wars fan. I'm interested in the programming and innovation but I have dyslexia so I'm not great with the code. I have lots of questions but first I'll need to find the discord and do the big download.

It looks like the discord invites are timing out.

Where's the discord link? I'm new. I'm in Australia so lag will be a question. My brother made the undersea optic fiber links to the world but people keep putting the ones on land in war zones and beside pacific volcanos. Derp. I'm a big star wars fan. I'm interested in the programming and innovation but I have dyslexia so I'm not great with the code. I have lots of questions but first I'll need to find the discord and do the big download.

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