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[darkhog]

These things:

take too much space IMO. Also due to the slashes being misaligned, they break the ASCII immersion. How about doing something like this instead?

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Creatures | Tasks | Places | Labor | etc.Or something like this:

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[tab][tab][tab][tab][tab]
Basically research how various DOS/UNIX text mode GUI apps did tabs and do it like that.

[brewer bob]

+1

The slashes get a bit confusing with Pets/Livestock and Dead/Missing, as with a quick glance you might think that Pets and Livestock are different tabs.

How about doing something like this instead?

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Creatures | Tasks | Places | Labor | etc.Or something like this:

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[tab][tab][tab][tab][tab]

The first one is the clearest, imo.

If you want to keep the slash kind of look, another option could be this (though, I don't think it's as clear as separating them with '|'):

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<Creatures> <Tasks> <Places> <Labor> <etc.>

[☼Obsidian Short Sword☼]

+1

Using: §Creatures§ §Tasks§ would be interesting.

[delphonso]

Toady suggested this is all just plain text in the init somewhere. We might be able to choose whatever we want.

[A_Curious_Cat]

+1. A very good suggestion!

I especially like the OP’s and brewer bob’s suggestions.  I don’t like the look of ☼Obsidian Short Sword☼‘s, though…

[Nordlicht]

+1

The new screens look harder to parse than the old ones. Overview screens should be fullscreen and not in a window. Imho any kind of flourish makes a text ui worse.

[Ziusudra]

It is a good suggestion, but remember that the only Classic screenshots we've seen were an uncompleted first pass, without any polish, so hold off on being so critical.

[darkhog]

It is a good suggestion, but remember that the only Classic screenshots we've seen were an uncompleted first pass, without any polish, so hold off on being so critical.

I know that. At the same time though, it's best to catch and report these things early as they may not be as easy to change later in development.

[Eniteris]

+1

Definitely a cleaner look.

[Eric Blank]

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Creatures | Tasks | Places | Labor | etc.

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<Creatures> <Tasks> <Places> <Labor> <etc.>

Either of these would be more legible than the current backslashes. Legibility could be improved further by differentiating the currently selected tab, for example;

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<Creatures> *Tasks* <Places> <Labor> <etc.>
The color change with the current implementation is very subtle and difficult to read.

[brewer bob]

The color change with the current implementation is very subtle and difficult to read.

The color change could possibly be made clearer by adding a light gray background to the selected tab (with the text being white or black).

[Eric Blank]

That would also work really well, yes

[Jostino]

+1

I like a lot these variants:

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[Creatures][Tasks][Places][Labor][etc.]

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<Creatures> <Tasks> <Places> <Labor> <etc.>