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[Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
edited February 2013 in Controls and User Interface
No idea where this should go as I couldn't see an idea's section.

Thank you for the Q's presents daily mission, the general idea has been around for centuries but it was a nice spin on the idea and a lot of people seem to be having fun with it.

This is not the first in game puzzle to use colours and might well not be the last so I wonder if I could make a small request for those of us who are colourblind. Would it be possible to use the colours in conjunction with some other visual aid?

As an example with Q's presents you could have shapes on the sides of the box too like a circle, square, triangle. It would obviously also work with a 1, 2 or 3 on the sides of the boxes or A, B C. You could even just have any other extra visual aids floating above the boxes or displayed below them if you didn't want to put them on the sides of the boxes.
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  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    That's a really good idea. Perhaps the ribbons could be patterned different too.

    Although, we may not see this minigame again - although, it would be nice to see it added to the winter event next year.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I see that this dropped off the front page pretty quickly presumably because the idea was good and didn't need more input.

    It would be good to know that this has been noted though by those that might be able to do something about it.
  • collegepark2151collegepark2151 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I'm not personally color blind but I would support different shaped presents or some other visual cue to assist those who are. It's my understanding that a pretty significant portion of the population has some degree of colorblindness.
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  • jslynjslyn Member Posts: 1,791 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I am not colorblind either but I agree that there needs to be some difference between the packages for the people that are. Y'all are inadvertently punishing some of your players for having a birth defect.
  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited February 2013
    Indeed, you can blame the Taco. Someone came to me one day while I was in the middle of other things, saying they needed the presents scaled up to fit Mini Q. I did so without really looking into what it was going to be used for.

    In the future, if I hear of such things, I'll try to make sure I include a pattern on them.
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  • collegepark2151collegepark2151 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Indeed, you can blame the Taco. Someone came to me one day while I was in the middle of other things, saying they needed the presents scaled up to fit Mini Q. I did so without really looking into what it was going to be used for.

    In the future, if I hear of such things, I'll try to make sure I include a pattern on them.

    Oh well. Burritos happen. Everyone makes enchiladas. *insert random mexican food saying here*
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Cryptic isn't meaning to do it on purpose, but yeah, these sort of things need to be taken into account more often.

    On a related note, with a handful of exceptions, isn't it odd that the ideas that everyone agrees with disappear, and the almost universally terrible ones get fought over for months?
  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    As a colourblind player, I fully support this idea (one of the reasons I love that show accurate uniform colour guide).
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  • jslynjslyn Member Posts: 1,791 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Oh well. Burritos happen. Everyone makes enchiladas. *insert random mexican food saying here*



    Its nacho fault.
  • nileight1nileight1 Member Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    They disappear because for every good post that has some real input, there's fifty right after that are "booo, cryptic is teh suk!"

    Thanks Taco for replying.
    And just because a dev doesn't respond, doesn't mean they don't see it or take it into account.
  • idronaidrona Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    No idea where this should go as I couldn't see an idea's section.

    Thank you for the Q's presents daily mission, the general idea has been around for centuries but it was a nice spin on the idea and a lot of people seem to be having fun with it.

    This is not the first in game puzzle to use colours and might well not be the last so I wonder if I could make a small request for those of us who are colourblind. Would it be possible to use the colours in conjunction with some other visual aid?

    As an example with Q's presents you could have shapes on the sides of the box too like a circle, square, triangle. It would obviously also work with a 1, 2 or 3 on the sides of the boxes or A, B C. You could even just have any other extra visual aids floating above the boxes or displayed below them if you didn't want to put them on the sides of the boxes.

    Good idea, and all hail Taco! :D

    ..When I make maps for STO I try make them easy to interpret for the color blind, not sure if I'm doing a good job with it though.
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  • tc10btc10b Member Posts: 1,549 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    jslyn wrote: »
    Its nacho fault.
    Hilarious. :-D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Very witty! :D

    Thanks Taco and everyone who helped to get this noticed.
  • maxvitormaxvitor Member Posts: 2,213 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    It shouldn't be too difficult to change the patterns on the boxes then change the text prompts from Red Green Blue to Left Center Right or the name of the patterns. But alas it's too late in this event to expect a change to be made this time around.
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  • br3akingforcebr3akingforce Member Posts: 106 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    jslyn wrote: »
    Its nacho fault.

    i'm getting some weird looks at work, from people wondering why i'm having sporadic outbursts of giggling.

    +1, sir.
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