IDEAS FOR RYZOM

Keeping the North on the compass would be very helpful...

You can always get North back by right clicking and selecting it, Sake.  Are you proposing two pointers on the compass, one for North and one for target, mission, resource, whatever?  I think that might be hard to design in addition to needing some serious coding.

Some fixes I'd like to see:
-The trainer "upgrade" programming is buggy. The upgrades don't remove the skill from neither the trainer's "all" menu nor "actions" menu.
- The choice "actions" is used twice on the menu. Rename the action choice as "Skill" and it's window "Skill Progression." Place the map and move items on the same menu. I recommend swapping map to the Actions menu, moving talk to the communications menu, and placing animals in the Windows menu.
-Fix bugs in the Ubuntu client, whereby one cannot enter the guild, or find the mektoub once dismounted.

The upgrades are not bugged:

The skills include multiple updates so the skill is displayed as long as not all included updates are learned.

@ Cathach When you buy the upgrades for skills you recieve that skill only, when you buy the non-upgrade option you receive a new credit/counter part. You will find that if you go back and purchase all the credits/counterparts the non-upgrade actions will disappear. :)

Many noobs buy an upgrade for a spell. The title of the spell does not change on the icon, although the brick does. Then the individual rebuys the spell, thinking they do not have it, because the icon, with upgrade, has the old number. This is a playability issue, and not just with me.

Unless I'm much mistaken, buying the brick only will not give you a new action. If the person later buys the action, it will work as intended, with that brick inside. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Cathach, this is true -- however, it does NOT charge you skill points for the parts you already have.  All you get is new stanzas to combine.  This is a good thing, not a bad thing.  I.e. if the Action: SPELLX(4) which contains action stanza spellx(4)+counterparts time(2)+sap(5) costs 10 sp and the Upgrade Spell costs 3 sp, once you have bought the Upgrade the cost of Action SPELLX(4) with the same stanzas in it, is reduced to 7 sp.

For my part I feel that if you buy an action without looking inside it to find out what it has in it you are not practicing due diligence.  In this case, however, the game automatically saves you at least the cost of duplicating a stanza.

As for labeling Action choices as "skills" you run into nomenclature conflict with the actual skill improvements for primary and secondary attributes and the increase of level (commonly called skill level in an activity).

Remember, an Action is castable/usable as purchased (not necessarily in the most effective fashion, but it can be). An Upgrade buys you a stanza/brick that can only be used in combination with other stanzas to make a new Action.

This is what other people have been trying to say.

-- Bittty

P.S. Mjollren, you are right.
PPS Request for the buggy client support should go into Support forums or into a ticket for responce by the CSRs.

Now you are right about them functioning as designed, but ask any CSR how many issues are reported with, for example Heal Life, where the brick and complete actions are named similar but numbered differently from the icon titles and needlessly repurchased by the unsuspecting new player. Playablility is when I buy the upgrade, the icon is renumbered appropriately and the spells dissappear from the trainers list. This way there is no chance the noob player will make an error and waste valuable skill points repurchasing actions (which is irreversable).

I'm all for preventing irreversible maistakes, but in this case maybe it happens once in silan then you ask what the difference is between spell and upgrade... case closed, im sorry if you lost 7 or 10 skill points, there will be many more. even if you buy the full spell after getting the upgrade, you still get the new cedits

You can never purchase the same thing twice, the moment you have it, its cost is deduced from other stanzas available. At most, you buy something you don't particularly need at that moment.

You most certainly can buy the same spell twice! You can buy the magic upgrade, then you can purchase the whole spell for the same thing. I am trying to help you fix the interfaces to work for better playability. I am looking for an improvement here. Many of you see have a high tolerance for issues, because you are maybe used to them. I seek user interface improvements, and I do appreciate your criticism of my ideas.

I consider myself to be very intolerant :)

The difference between the spell and action upgrade is that the spell includes new credits, as has already been said. The spell version will remain if you have not purchased one of the credits that it contains. If you accidentially buy the spell after upgrading the action you do get those credits, so you haven't bought the same thing twice...

With all due respect, how was I using the upgrade in the first place? If you consider that this is happening to players, it is because they already had the credits. There are no improved credits given with a spell the any player did not already have at the upgrade. Again, I suggest that when the magic upgrade is learned, then the comparable spell be removed from the trainer's list as well. This will help eliminate misunderstandings of what a player has or needs. This is not such an issue with the other trainers, BTW.

-Bittymacod
Thanks for your comments. As far as the menu in the lower right, I only suggested "skill" to illustrate the problem. The word "actions" is used twice on the same menu. I would like to see another appropriate word choosen, along with the "minor" menu reorganization I proposed.