JTCS 2.0 Patch - Thank You Thread

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Thank you for your feedback Mark. I hear what you are saying.

At work, we used MS Office 2003 for the longest time, until a couple of years ago we moved to MS Office 2010. We had a training class to learn about the new mechanics, which was needed as the UI saw some significant changes. I still have MS Office 2003 at home, and I just hate using it as I have the newer one at work.

Then, MS "forced" an MS Office 2013 update on us. What worked nicely in Office 2010 was changed and tweaked in some places, for better somewhere, unnecessarily in some other places imho.

As for the 2.00 UI, it was our intention to provide a Office 2010 vs Office 2003 experience for everyone.

Great effort was taken, that most often needed commands would all be available as icons. That required a lot more icons than previously was the case, and it was decided they need to fit one row as before. So they became smaller.

At the same time, a conscious effort was taken to have all commands available as Hot-keys. With that, changes were also introduced to make them coherent to one another.

Some often used Hot keys were changed that require an adjustment for the player, like Ctrl-P is now the Opportunity Fire.

Some others are a godsend, such as my pet peeve Numpad-5 for Airstrikes. How often I have triggered it when trying to change unit facing instead I have lost the count a long time ago!

As for the View selection in the menu, they follow the numbering now.

I realise all changes are not for everyone's taste, and I see the logic in pointing out the icons are now smaller.

Hopefully, in your case, the wide availability of hotkeys will render the use of menus and icons unnecessary.