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as the title says: which heading for depot strings should be used?

Thanks to people for not reading before voting, we had to make a new poll

Each of the screenshots got a number. Use that number when commenting and voting.

Update: Now we settled for an option that was not even an option in the poll, but it appears that everybody agrees on it anyway

I want a third option:

"Service..." in blue and "Heading for..." in orange.
Different strings + different colours.

This would be the best one, as far as I'm concerned (vide a stopped vehicle, which has a different string, in red).

Loop wrote:This would be the best one, as far as I'm concerned (vide a stopped vehicle, which has a different string, in red).

red is reserved as the "breakdown colour", so we will not use that one. If you want to test it, it's the colour used in the nightly builds. It will not stay that way

XeryusTC wrote:Suggestion 1, having a different string is better than having a different color as in the current nightlies IMO. Colors can get confusing.

^^

And I think that it is "poll", not "pool". A pool is something you put water in so you can take a swim .

A person can easier see colors then text. The difference between 'service' and 'heading' is too minor to be noticed when giving a quick look. The use of colors, if done in propper amounts, can improve the time of understanding something.

Therefor I agree with Loop, a third option, both strings different as color different. Orange btw might not be the best color, where red is the most wrong color you can get Maybe green for service... ah, I dunno. Just I like the colors (I hate true reading of text)

Bjarni wrote:red is reserved as the "breakdown colour", so we will not use that one

Uhh, I didn't want red It was only an example how it is with broken vehicles.

You have a new string - "Broken down!", which is in red.

I would like a new string "Heading for...", which could be in any colour; orange is fine.

Why like this?

Because:
1. Using the same string, only different colours = newbies, and all people "learning" the feature will have to guess and observe which colour means what. It isn't obvious, that "Heading for.." in orange is for servicing, and in blue is for stopping in the depot.

2. Using different strings, but in the same colour = with this option, everybody will know for sure, 120%, what the vehicle is doing, without the need to guess. But strings alone are not visible enough.

Imagine the "Broken down!" text in blue. I wonder how many people would miss broken vehicles thanks to this...

3.Using different strings AND different colours = best of both - clear, inrofmative and very visible!

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And the ultimate thought - which string I would like to colorize.

The answer is obvious: "Heading for..."

Why? Because servicing is a normal action, and vehicles are services sooo often. So it shouldn't be seen as something special. And the blue string means - "I'm following my route, I'm carrying stuff, everything is OK, don't worry, I just need a little service at the depot!"

On the other hand, "Heading for..." would be something unusual, different: "Somebody forced me to go to the depot and stay there! Hey! What's going on?".

This is how I see it.

You're forgetting that some people are color-blind, the distinction with the word "Service..." should be done anyway; whether you use color or not.

@Trulight: I see words before I see colors, so...

MacLir wrote:You're forgetting that some people are color-blind, the distinction with the word "Service..." should be done anyway; whether you use color or not.

I think we decided on solution 1.5, where we use different text and different colours

MacLir wrote:@Trulight: I see words before I see colors, so...

well I don't and it actually helps a lot of people to use different colours.

Bjarni wrote:I think we decided on solution 1.5, where we use different text and different colours

That was implied.

Bjarni wrote:well I don't and it actually helps a lot of people to use different colours.

I didn't say it didn't help either.

I am also for a combination of colour and text.

The combination seems best to me as well.