Merch Gwyar's Blog

I guess for the Daggonoth Mother maybe text above it based on words or numbers could help (1 for Fire, 2 for Water, 3 for Range, 4 for Melee or just the words themselves, it's not like people can't just look it up anyway and know what to do but that would help colorblind players.)

Out of interest, do you follow the RuneScoop soapbox? It's a really good, thought out blog :)

TheRazingLight - That's worth adding to the 'Addressing Discrimination' thread. :D Though it also said it in the cc for the second Mother. The first hasn't got that, I don't think.

 

Helm - Nope, link pl0x! :D

Remember the strange box MOM handed out? That got changed specifically to accommodate color blind people.

Oh yes! I'd forgotten about that.

 

I think that Jagex, when they know about something, do try to sort it out.

Merch, RuneScoop is Truthscape reopened - run by Qeltar if I recall correctly? :)

 

http://www.runescoop.com/index.htm

Unless I am mistaken, during Horror from the Deep & Blood Runs Deep you get a message in your chatbox when the dagannoth changes colour. :P

Don't know, haven't done Blood Runs Deep and it's been like years since Horror. Does it specify the color though :P

Merch, RuneScoop is Truthscape reopened - run by Qeltar if I recall correctly? :)

 

http://www.runescoop.com/index.htm

Yes, I believe it is run by Qeltar. The site also has a really good, free moneymaking guide, which has opened my eyes to some of the ways that noobs can make money (running d'hides turns out to be extremely profitable, for example).

Link to the Soapbox blog: http://www.runescoop.com/soapbox/. I don't know how to subscribe, but I personally find it really interesting.

Collector in BA is OK because they're called "Green Egg", "Red Egg" and "Blue Egg", though the Green can be hard to see against the floor.

 

General gameplay is certainly significantly better nowadays for those of us who are colourblind, with more colours being shoved into the examine description if it isn't anywhere else. Things like the Light Maze could do with somebody sitting down for an afternoon and adding colours into the names of things so they're directly visible on right-click rather than just the examines, then spending a few hours adding a big UI for the colour wheel that lets you hover over the different sections and be told what each colour is.

 

There was one problem that came up a couple of years back when the graphics for Vials were changed - [normal] Energy Potions (particularly 3 and 4 dose) and Empty Vials look exactly the same, meaning you're constantly attempting to drink empty potions when training Agility. I brought it up with a couple of JMods at the time, but nothing's changed (other than the rest update which simply means there's less need for the Potions). I now use the Circus to 'train' Agility. EDIT: The 'new' cursors make it a lot easier to tell whether a Vial has anything in, but it's still hard to see where to move the mouse to in the first place.

 

The other biggie is the colour of both the Clan Chat and the 'you have unlocked some new music' text in HD - it's painful to read pretty much anywhere other than Lumbridge Bank chest or standing a couple of spaces away from the GE where you have a solid black / dark brown background to have it against, meaning I can participate in a lot less conversation than I want to. Being able to choose the colour (the full 16.7m options) of various types of chat text is, imo, a vital update that should have been added within a couple of months of the launch of HD.

 

(I'll write a full blog entry about my experiences with more examples and explanation over the next day or so

EDIT: http://runescape.salmoneus.net/forums/blog...howentry=49518)

 

Unless I am mistaken, during Horror from the Deep & Blood Runs Deep you get a message in your chatbox when the dagannoth changes colour. :P

This.

Off topic: Whats yours truthscoop username?