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Fleet Alert Icon

klink0rzklink0rz Member Posts: 6 Arc User
edited June 2012 in Tribble - General Discussion and Feedback
Personally (don't know about anyone else) but to me the fleet alert icon thing next to the map, quite frankly, looks tacky and an afterthought.

Perhaps a better idea would be an alert button like sector block Borg Invasion events, instead of saying "Alert Distress Call", Have a button in the same area, same style that reads "Alert Fleet Starbase" or something like that.

The current one doesn't look very.... Star Trek, whereas the Borg one does.

Something like this...

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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Yeah, it does not look good how they did that.

    To me, the Alert notice should be under the minimap than on the side. Which could be similar to the Trek Red Alert notice.

    I also figure, like how the DOFF and Mailbox icons flash green, why couldn't the Fleet Button flash Red?
  • admiraljt#1430 admiraljt
    admiraljt#1430
         Member Posts: 452 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    The button is a little to big to me, but I like the way it pops out to let you choose to que for the alert. I don't like how every thing you click on opens a new window. Having menus expand from the minimap seems more sleek and Lcars like to me.
  • c0nd1t10nr3dc0nd1t10nr3d Member Posts: 638 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    jackswaggert wrote: »
    The button is a little to big to me, but I like the way it pops out to let you choose to que for the alert. I don't like how every thing you click on opens a new window. Having menus expand from the minimap seems more sleek and Lcars like to me.

    I agree. It looks and functions quite nicely! It's just a shame how it adds you to the queue and then removes you from it a few seconds later, over and over again! Grrrr! lol
  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I think its a great addition in how it displays (when it functions lol) and how it extends.

    However I sometimes play with my minimap positioned at the bottom of my screen. I have not yet had a red alert with my minimap in this location - but I would be concerned that the button would be somehow cut off, especially for people who may position their minimaps in the bottom left corner of their monitors.
  • sotaudisotaudi Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    It is one thing to want it to look different, but I don't know how you can suggest it doesn't fit the Star Trek visuals. When I first saw it, I didn't particularly like it, but the first thing that I thought was that the way it wrapped around the minimap made it look like other Star Trek computer icons, that it, at least, fit the motif.
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