One quick color suggestion....

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JustasJ wrote:I like Jackards Idea, but I wouldn't mind if they blinked a bit along with the color change.
blinking things are distracting and attention-grabbing. not a good idea
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Jackard wrote:
JustasJ wrote:I like Jackards Idea, but I wouldn't mind if they blinked a bit along with the color change.
blinking things are distracting and attention-grabbing. not a good idea
What about causing it to rotate?

Or perhaps making the messages from the server scroll across the bottom of the screen while flashing?

OH and the entire UI should have an embossed repeating background of some form, possibly a photo of loftar :P
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I was thinking more geocities style
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I like sepia. What you see is pretty cool.

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Jackard wrote:just have a single bar split into four or five 'bubbles' with the meter changing colors as each one is filled

(■■■■|■■■■■■|■■■■■■■■■■|■■■■)
(■■■■|■■■■■■|■■■■■■■■■■|■■■■)
(■■■■|■■■■■■|■■■■■■■■■■|■■■■)
(■■■■|■■■■■■|■■■■■■■■■■|■■■■)

or something like that anyways you get the idea
That would be nice and be more clear for colour blind people and newbies too. It is alot more intuitive
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note the reason that my example only has four bubbles is that there is no mechanical difference between Hungry and Full

each block is 5%
so orange is starving 1-20
yellow is (very) hungry 21-50
green is full 51-100
blue is stuffed 101-120

just a suggestion ofc but it seems a lot better than starving taking up half the bar
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Jackard wrote:Image
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sabinati wrote:Image
:lol: i love it! it is my new sig
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