Is it Me?.......Identifying Core Units

bootlegger267 · Post by **bootlegger267** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:41 pm

I'm still having a problem identifying which units are "Core"? Please post replys...What am I missing?

Kerensky · Post by **Kerensky** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:44 pm

Core units have a prominent gold border, aux units have a reduced grey border. Are you still having difficulties with this after the latest change?

adherbal · Post by **adherbal** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:51 pm

It's one of the reasons I favored using images in the tutorial popups. I can't actualy recall in what message core/aux difference is being explained, but visualising it is always better than explaining it in text.

bootlegger267 · Post by **bootlegger267** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:57 am

Got it. Dont know why I missed that in the new notes. I will say though, its very subtle....maybe too subtle

Obsolete · Post by **Obsolete** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:29 am

Well, it was a lot worse before than it is now. I thought the method in PG of changing the background colour of the strength value worked pretty good for most cases, and prevented all the squinting.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:30 am

PG changed the number colour and we use that for suppression which is really useful.

bobk · Post by **bobk** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:57 pm

The suppression colors are a great idea, but I agree that core units could stand out a bit more. The objectives are easy to find now, maybe the gold core borders could be a little bigger.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:16 am

Are you looking at RC2 - it really is quite different between core & Aux units now.

Kerensky · Post by **Kerensky** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:27 am

There are problems identifying the difference between CORE and AUX units on the strategic map.

bobk · Post by **bobk** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:59 pm

No, the tacticle map on RC2. Lets put it this way, the gold border is there, I guess I have too look close to see the grayish border of the aux units.

Obsolete · Post by **Obsolete** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 6:00 pm

I guess my contrast is off since it's not always obvious at first. Back in PG2 one didn't even have to take a second to spot it, things were obvious if it was Aux or not.

At least it's a little better than before. On a side-note, I'm running at the highest res so that's probably having another negative effect on spotting the differences.

skarczew · Post by **skarczew** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:01 pm

The difference before last version was quite ok for me (better than month-two ago).

And personally, in RC2 the border is so thick that I am starting to think that it is quite (too) heavy now.
No problems telling those two types of units apart

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