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UI Overhaul and Redesign

 User Interface, or User Interactions, or the Team of Extreme Awesomeness as we're often called, has always had a unique challenge. It is our responsibility to present each of the varied systems in the game (RVR, Careers, Crafting, Trophies, Public Quests) in ways that make them easy to understand and easy to use, while still reflecting how exciting they are. And we have to tie these wildly different systems together, visually, so it doesn't look like you're staring at the interface for twenty different games each time you open a new window.

 So we made a decision to revisit the UI from the ground up. This literally means we're touching every window in the game. Nothing that was in the game a month ago can be considered finished.

 It's an exciting, but daunting prospect.

 Our first two attempts at overhauling the UI were with two huge and somewhat independent systems, the maps and the Tome of Knowledge. We showed updates of both those windows in the last few weeks, but showing you what they look like now doesn't give you any indication of the direction that we're going with the rest of the UI. The maps and the Tome are stylized parchments, a look we're not going to use for the default windows.

There's lots more where that came from, so be sure to check it out, and try not to cry when you remember beta is postponed until December!  In fact, make sure you're on the newsletter mailing list for a chance at getting in!