JTCS 2.0 Patch - Thank You Thread

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

I guess I will be the bad guy here. First, I'm a kiss method and if it ain't broke don't fix it kind of guy. I'm glad the graphics are still the same. However, it looks like these people at Microsoft and other places trying to justify having a job when it comes to the changes that should not have been made.

When going to view options, why switch the 2d to the bottom of the stack when there was nothing wrong with the way it was. It was in numerical and size order, why switch them around? Now, one has to get used to new placement. This seems like a waste of time.

With the menu buttons at the bottom of the page, why add all the extras reducing the size of easy to see icons and changing others. It was way better the way it was. Again, it seems like wasting time on stuff that didn't need to be done. Different sized, too many and some icons different. That's three hits. There was more than enough space along the bottom border to add the new icons and not change the looks of any of the old ones so you wouldn't have as much to get used to. The key to doing things the easy way is to be organized, but the bottom icons now look like a jumbled mess. You can put the old icons at the bottom back the way they were and put the new ones at the very bottom where the starshell and smoke totals were and they could all be back the same size and loo they were.


In my opinion, a patch should be fixing errors that are found, maybe adding new scenarios or adding new techniques or rules changes to the game, not making it look like a whole new game. But again, this looks like those at microsoft that changed the looks of things when it should have just been left alone. It looked better the old way, but if one doesn't patch up, you will find very few opps as almost all will patch and not go through the hassle to go back the other way unless most people also go back. I appreciate the work, but maybe should have put out some actual size screenshots to get opinions.


Sorry to be the bearer of bad news from my little part of the world, but I call it like I see it.