Curse

Dr Strangelove · Apr 20, 2006, 06:48 PM // 18:48

I am cursed with the devastating affliction of red-green colorblindness. In case no one noticed, the health bar is red, and when you have a condition on you a greensih arrow pointing downward appears. I have one heck of a time actually seeing the thing, making me a really bad prot monk. (Is he blinded? Maybe? I really can't be sure....)

End colorblindess ableism now!

EDIT: Looks like someone killed my creative title. I was thinking, the easiest way to fix this (for me) would be to just put a black outline around the arrow. It's subtle, it's visible, it doesn't make your screen look like an LSD trip. The only other one I have a big problem with, the yellow/green colors of NPC's and characters just doesn't seem to be an issue for me. How often do I need to tell apart pets and people?

Vilaptca · Apr 20, 2006, 06:53 PM // 18:53

I was laughing when I opened this, mostly because I thought I was going to have to close it, and I was already laughing about what silliness could be posted behind such a title.

I myself know a few colorblind people...they don't play Guild Wars...but I can see where you're going with this. Something like this, I would suggest also emailing to them as a suggestion, I know often times they tell people with suggestions to take it to the forums to see what others think about it, but I just can't imagine this forum is full of colorblind people who will back you up.

It might be worth it to send them an email as well.

Good luck with this, might I ask what you are suggesting they add? Like some sort of way to change the color of the health bar?

Epinephrine · Apr 20, 2006, 06:57 PM // 18:57

We suggested allowing user defined colours on the minimap, health bar and so on ages ago - little red and green dots don't help much for red and green colourblindness. Allowing users to define the colour of indicators would be handy.

EternalTempest · Apr 20, 2006, 06:58 PM // 18:58

/signed

I would shoot anet techsupport as well.

Dougal Kronik · Apr 20, 2006, 07:01 PM // 19:01

/signed

Should be able to set the colours of the different bars from a palette in the options screen.

Minus Sign · Apr 20, 2006, 07:22 PM // 19:22

I'm usually up for player-side customizations.

/signed

sh4ft3d · Apr 20, 2006, 07:25 PM // 19:25

/signed.
I'm not color-blind, but I think that this would be a great addition to GW. Shoot them up an email with this page on a link or something.

Hoyt · Apr 20, 2006, 07:27 PM // 19:27

/signed

Have you tried adjusting the gamma and contrast setting individually for both red and blue on your system Display menu?
You should be able to make all red (bars) show as much lighter in contrast and Blues (which would also affect greens) show much darker in contrast.
Of course you've dealt with the issue from the get go, so you have probably already tried the standard gambit of solutions…

Be curious to see how and if you manage to solve the problem.

Cadmann · Apr 20, 2006, 07:31 PM // 19:31

/signed

I have a guy I work with that has the same problem. We'll be whiteboarding stuff and using different pen colors to augment what we're laying out, and it means nothing to him. Really opened my eyes (no pun intended) to the problem. For example, web sites with poor color design....

Cadmann

Yanman.be · Apr 20, 2006, 07:31 PM // 19:31

^^^^^^^^^^^I was going to suggest the same thing, but it might not work...but yeah, /signed

Francis Demeules · Apr 20, 2006, 07:35 PM // 19:35

Get an option to configure for those who are handicaped.

/signed

Phoenix Avenger · Apr 20, 2006, 10:02 PM // 22:02

/signed, make the game playable to everyone!

quickmonty · Apr 20, 2006, 10:42 PM // 22:42

Never even thought about it. Thanks for bringing it up.

/signed

lightblade · Apr 20, 2006, 11:34 PM // 23:34

/signed

But I don't see how they can change this, make poison yellow color?

Kool Pajamas · Apr 20, 2006, 11:35 PM // 23:35

/signed
I know someone that is completely color blind. I dont know if that contributes anything but I thought i would mention it lol.

LifeInfusion · Apr 20, 2006, 11:43 PM // 23:43

It might be a bit hard for them to add a UI that changes colors consdiering the sheer amount of things that would need to be adjusted. But if it is doable, by all means I support this suggestion because I myself am sometimes slightly colorblind due to my near and farsightedness.

Cjlr · Apr 20, 2006, 11:50 PM // 23:50

Hooray!!! All those "/signed"s for us colourblinds...

I myself am only fairly deuteranomalic, so not as bad as the OP on the scales. For me, the worst I've noticed in the game is that I can't tell apart the yellow and green shades used for party member and NPC names. That, and telling Ranger and Necromancer bosses apart from their auras.

EDIT: And in the future, perhaps you could go for a less offensive (or at least politically charged) title.

bilateralrope · Apr 20, 2006, 11:54 PM // 23:54

This is a problem that ANET needs to deal with, even if customisable colors aren't doable easily, ANET could just add a choice of several different schemes designed for just that problem

/signed, though it doesn't effect me

Shoujo · Apr 21, 2006, 12:19 AM // 00:19

Heh, catchy title. Came in here looking for some more internet silliness, but found a very sensible suggestion instead.

/signed

Guardian of the Light · Apr 21, 2006, 01:02 AM // 01:02

/signed

This makes a new saying you can't judge a thread by it's title.

But ya good suggestion.