Topic
What was that about a skill point?
Not strictly a bug, but a UX hangup.
Point-of-view story:
Each time I leveled-up today, an in-client dialog told me I had a skill point to spend, then gave me a button to press to "spend it now", but on click, the dialog went away and I noticed no other change, so I just kept on playing skill-less until level 3, when I asked about it in chat. Someone pointed out I could access the skill-purchasing interface through my profile, and I luckily already knew I could click the Forums button to get there with only one more subsequent click.
Explanations/Suggestions:
1. My pop-up blocker (Chrome/Mac) kept me from seeing the interface for spending those skill points. Since pop-up blockers are so often on by default these days, it's probably worth detecting these scenarios where the user isn't seeing your pop-up.
2. It seemed unintuitive to me that there wasn't a link to my profile from the game interface, and instead I had to click Forums, followed by the profile link. Was I missing something?
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Ah, OK, I have a popup-blocker too and wondererd what it was murmuring about.
This discussion is related to this other one about Gardening:
alpha.glitch.com/forum/idea... -
I'm bringing this back up again. I ended the day with 2 unspent skill points because they weren't more prominently featured in the game.
I also may have suffered crashes at level-up time, which is perhaps why I didn't get to spend them right away, but if they were easier to access during normal gameplay, I likely would have realized more quickly that I had unspent points. - Not really a bug, I don't think, but rather a UI issue-- no? Unless you had trouble clicking on 'spend the skill point' in-game.
- The line between bug and UI issue is as fuzzy as the aura I'd like to appear around the piggies I'm about to nibble.
- ahhhhh ;)