Am I the only person who hates the new nameplates?

baratron · February 2015

This is what I see when I look at my best friend's character on Live:

His level and name are in white, and his Alliance Rank is in the colour of his Alliance.

This is what I see when I look at the same character on the PTS:

EVERYTHING is now in an odd cream/pale yellow colour.

And it's not yellow because he's Aldmeri Dominion. ALL ALLIANCES have their Alliance colour removed from their character nameplate!

I sincerely hope the colours still appear inside Cyrodiil!

Seriously, why have I not seen any discussion about this? Am I truly the only person who hates it?

Wisler89 · February 2015

Don't really care that the name and title (in this case Dominion Hero) have changed font color a little, I actually like the new one a little better but as I said, I don't really care.

But I didn't notice that the symbol for the alliance rank got changed (at least the color) and I don't like that it is white. I hope this will be changed back.

Beastnas · February 2015

Agreed. The first time I saw these, I thought the tint of my screen was off. Very pointless change.

manny254 · February 2015

Is this a intended change? I remember the 1st week of 1.6 pts the names where normal. After the EU character copy this new change occurred and stayed. I assumed it was some sort of unintended consequence.

supernico · February 2015

From now on ITT we try to find a reason for the changes in name plates.

xylena · February 2015

i thought it was a bug... no way something that ugly was intended... i hope

Rosveen · February 2015

Why do they keep changing things nobody cares about?

baratron · February 2015

Yeah, I'm not very bothered about the change in font colour. Lots of text has changed from white to this cream/pale yellow colour: not just players' names but also the names of NPCs and monsters. But losing the Alliance colour from the War Rank logo is just weird. I can't think of any reason to make that change.

LtCrunch · February 2015

At first it bothered me, but I think the new color is easier on the eyes and more easily noticeable. I don't like that the alliance rank color changed along with it though.

Sacadon · February 2015

If they decide to stay with this, you may want to try one of the addons that let you customize it... Target Lookup and Target Maintenance are a couple.

Flaminir · February 2015

Wow... yellow really took a nerf!

I'm EP... hope they don't nerf my Red... Blue will become way OP then!

Dracane · February 2015

Everyone is having pale nameplates now, right ? I really dislike this. I prefered gold-blue-red

SoulScream · February 2015

Rosveen wrote: »

Why do they keep changing things nobody cares about?

This exactly! There are so many better ways to be using their time and rss.

ZOS_ChrisStrasz · February 2015

Hello,

This is a known issue. It's an unintended bug and not something we intentionally changed so you will see it going back to the way it was. Sorry for the inconvenience while it's in this state. Thanks!

Gyudan · February 2015

Thanks for the clarification.

MorHawk · February 2015

I say this every time, and I'm certainly no programmer, but how does something like this get changed accidentally? Like, are the code monkeys more literal than we thought, except they randomly throw switches instead of poop? lol

Tyr · February 2015

MorHawk wrote: »

I say this every time, and I'm certainly no programmer, but how does something like this get changed accidentally? Like, are the code monkeys more literal than we thought, except they randomly throw switches instead of poop? lol

Changing one part of the game code can effect other seemingly unrelated parts.

This is normal for software development.

LtCrunch · February 2015

ZOS_ChrisStrasz wrote: »

Hello,

This is a known issue. It's an unintended bug and not something we intentionally changed so you will see it going back to the way it was. Sorry for the inconvenience while it's in this state. Thanks!

I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad.

glak · February 2015

Tyr wrote: »

MorHawk wrote: »

I say this every time, and I'm certainly no programmer, but how does something like this get changed accidentally? Like, are the code monkeys more literal than we thought, except they randomly throw switches instead of poop? lol

Changing one part of the game code can effect other seemingly unrelated parts.

This is normal for software development.

Too many different uses for the same variable, overuse of inheritance, modifying static variables, dependency issues at object deconstruction, etc.

MorHawk · February 2015

Tyr wrote: »

MorHawk wrote: »

I say this every time, and I'm certainly no programmer, but how does something like this get changed accidentally? Like, are the code monkeys more literal than we thought, except they randomly throw switches instead of poop? lol

Changing one part of the game code can effect other seemingly unrelated parts.

This is normal for software development.

I get it, really, fix one bug and a dozen others pop up. I totally understand that, for example, changing the sensitivity on collision detection could cause unforeseen issues with clipping maybe. I just don't get how *any* change could cause the colour on nameplates to change from yellow to white. It's not like it doesn't show, it's not corrupted or anything, simply that #FFFF00 suddenly became #FFFFFF.

Sacadon · February 2015

MorHawk wrote: »

Tyr wrote: »

MorHawk wrote: »

I say this every time, and I'm certainly no programmer, but how does something like this get changed accidentally? Like, are the code monkeys more literal than we thought, except they randomly throw switches instead of poop? lol

Changing one part of the game code can effect other seemingly unrelated parts.

This is normal for software development.

I get it, really, fix one bug and a dozen others pop up. I totally understand that, for example, changing the sensitivity on collision detection could cause unforeseen issues with clipping maybe. I just don't get how *any* change could cause the colour on nameplates to change from yellow to white. It's not like it doesn't show, it's not corrupted or anything, simply that #FFFF00 suddenly became #FFFFFF.

The same code that colors nameplates could be used to color any number of things in the game that were touched. Being a former developer (professionally), this is not as far fetched as it may seem. Given how non-functional it is, it also doesn't surprise me that QA missed it.

RakshaTheKhajiit · February 2015

Ehh, I hoped the color removal was sort of preparation to allow us to group with people from another alliances...

LunaRae · February 2015

ZOS_ChrisStrasz wrote: »

Hello,

This is a known issue. It's an unintended bug and not something we intentionally changed so you will see it going back to the way it was. Sorry for the inconvenience while it's in this state. Thanks!

@ZOS_ChrisStrasz‌ - When I look at the forum thread list I don't see the standard green logo indicating the thread has a ZOS mod post, do you know why?? Your post shows on dev tracker, but if I look at the forum I would not know that you made a post.

Valen_Byte · February 2015

Honestly, I dont like that my alliance rank is in my nameplate at all. If I could remove it I would. The only reason I have one is because I had to go to Cyro. to get all the anchors and shards. I really dont want anyone to think Im a PVPer.

Sacadon · February 2015

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Honestly, I dont like that my alliance rank is in my nameplate at all. If I could remove it I would. The only reason I have one is because I had to go to Cyro. to get all the anchors and shards. I really dont want anyone to think Im a PVPer.

You can choose a diff title (as you prob know), but the rank is exposed through the API, so addons will be able to show this still. If it shows as Tyro or lower, no worries you'll not be considered a PvPer )). I think most consider anything less than rank 10 someone who dabbles at most.

Valen_Byte · February 2015

Sacadon wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Honestly, I dont like that my alliance rank is in my nameplate at all. If I could remove it I would. The only reason I have one is because I had to go to Cyro. to get all the anchors and shards. I really dont want anyone to think Im a PVPer.

You can choose a diff title (as you prob know), but the rank is exposed through the API, so addons will be able to show this still. If it shows as Tyro or lower, no worries you'll not be considered a PvPer )). I think most consider anything less than rank 10 someone who dabbles at most.

Its silly that I am the "Savior of Nirn" and a Private lol