Watching the EU tournament, there was a TON of real estate at the bottom of the screen that was under-utilized. Maybe ArenaNet could think of some interesting ways to utilize that bottom part of the screen in a way that would make watching the game more enjoyable.
Some thoughts are:
– move icons/health bars down there
– include all the player action bars down there
– player rez timers
– ?
Thoughts?
When designing UI, all resolutions and UI sizes need to be taken into consideration. That unused space is only there for large resolution monitors using normal and small UI size. You can see for yourself by setting the game to 1024×768 and setting your UI size to large. You get tons of overlapping UI
You’d have to toggle out the skillbar to get any room.
That being said, what kind of stuff would you like to see down there?
Top of my list: side-by-side team state comparison. Points captured, neutralized, kills, deaths, healing done, damage done, condi damage done, etc etc.
We’re currently working on some minimap changes that will help with the zoom levels and readability. I agree that more hard-coded actions should be bindable.
