# Visual change of Traits **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests and Game feedback\ **Created:** [November 23, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402 "2017-11-23T14:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zwiezda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zwiezda/32/39508_2.png) [@Zwiezda](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zwiezda)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/1 "2017-11-23T14:23:30Z")
Many people are little concerned that in most cases Traits cover the image of a troop (which are really pretty and it’s a shame to cover them). So I played around in Photoshop to find other ways to show Traits on a card and here I want to show the results to you, and most importantly to developers. These changes are not revolutionary, and I think that this is a major reason to think about this. Example why current way of showing Traits is bad, Traits covers faces very often, which is sad: ![merlion mockup](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/2/9/2955ef08455adec821e5a84ec96c59e67dac8166.png) AND here are examples what I think could work instead. 1. Simply move Traits to the left side of the card 2. Hide them, we don’t need to see it’s representation as a icon. We can check this by clickin on the card. 3. Make them simmilar to Stats (and could be shown on the left like in example 1.) 4. Show them above Magic So thats it! Tell me what you think about my attempt to make Troop cards better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/2 "2017-11-23T14:27:37Z")
> [@Zwiezda](#): > > Simply move Traits to the left side of the card Many good points! Then traits is showing at the right side for CPU. ---
**Author:** ![Delinquent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Delinquent](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Delinquent)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/3 "2017-11-23T17:15:43Z")
It would be great to turn these options into a poll! ---
**Author:** ![VenusBlue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/venusblue/32/38243_2.png) [@VenusBlue](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/VenusBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/4 "2017-11-23T17:40:26Z")
I really like moving them to the left side. Such a simple change, yet it would make a huge difference. ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/5 "2017-11-23T23:24:34Z")
Left side! if not perhaps 3.2 (transparent with colour) ---
**Author:** ![Svaldan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/svaldan/32/29159_2.png) [@Svaldan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Svaldan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/6 "2017-11-23T23:39:49Z")
> [@Cyrup](#): > > Left side! if not perhaps 3.2 (transparent with colour) Agree these look the best. Moving the icons to the left means some cards, like Alastair, will have to be realigned though. In some arts you can hardly avoid nice details on the left side of the art becoming obscured; the parrot on Captain Skullbeard, the gun on Bonnie Rose, the fuse on Bombot. Since every character on your side of the board by default is facing right though, traits on the left will look better on the vast majority of cards. ---
**Author:** ![Razzagor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/razzagor/32/50037_2.png) [@Razzagor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Razzagor)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/7 "2017-11-24T00:01:42Z")
As Delinquent said, making a poll with the images could help. It’s easy: ![polls](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/0/8/08bcc4a30955126e927f066311b3fdb6ac063a97.jpg) Anyway, nice job on your ideas and i would probably pick option 4: Above Magic and white Icons to keep everything combining. ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/8 "2017-11-24T00:03:12Z")
Thanks for the feedback! We’re adding into the **next update** releasing before Christmas! 🌞 😄 courtesy of @Alpheon **Edit: The traits are going on the left of the card.** ---
**Author:** ![efh313](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/efh313/32/34349_2.png) [@efh313](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/efh313)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/9 "2017-11-24T00:10:04Z")
Great work. I loved all the suggestions but the simple icons above Magic stat really spoke to me. Very clean. Awesome to see that something is comin in the next update!! Thanks for the peek behind the curtain @Cyrup. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/10 "2017-11-24T02:54:58Z")
SPOILERS ![Pasted image at 2017_11_24 01_49 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/8/d/8d16aeceb1fbb180d058f56cb44a14e8a4897994.png) ---
**Author:** ![Sththunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Sththunder](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sththunder)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/11 "2017-11-24T04:50:29Z")
Cool! If you added some transparency to those black bars I think that would really snazz it up 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zwiezda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zwiezda/32/39508_2.png) [@Zwiezda](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zwiezda)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/12 "2017-11-24T13:21:55Z")
Wohoo, great to hear that it will be implemented! 😃 I am so proud of myself xD This really looks great! Can’t wait to see it live! Btw. Does the purple is now little lighter? If yes, good choice, because on the card of Abynissia purple looks little too dark on that black transparent panel and I wanted to suggest to make purple lighter. So um. Yea. :V ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/13 "2017-11-27T00:47:52Z")
Do you mean, is it lighter in the image I showed of Kraken/what the game team is working on? Or can we make it lighter…? > [@Visual change of Traits](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/11): > > Cool! If you added some transparency to those black bars I think that would really snazz it up slight_smile @Alpheon ! ---
**Author:** ![Zwiezda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zwiezda/32/39508_2.png) [@Zwiezda](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zwiezda)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/14 "2017-11-27T01:31:36Z")
I compared the original purple colour on Abynissa preview I made using original purple from a trait, and it seemed to be little too dark on that black panel, but on Kraken I see the graphic designer made it lighter, so he/she noticed the original was too dark too. So we thought the same thing I think ^^ (I hope this is clear now 🙂 ) > [@](#): > > Or can we make it lighter…? Like on the preview on Kraken is just right! No more changes needed. ---
**Author:** ![turintuor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/turintuor/32/4097_2.png) [@turintuor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/turintuor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/15 "2017-11-27T02:10:05Z")
Are the trait icons really usefull? Do players really know which traits troops have just by looking at these icons? Or they need to check in the trait “card” (by clicking on the troop) and so on, icons are useless? You remove the kingdom banner from the card because most of the players didn’t know which banner corresponds to which kingdom. It seems coherent that you also remove these icons… Or put text better than an icon (which seems to be the solution for the kingdom). ---
**Author:** ![Stan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/stan/32/29888_2.png) [@Stan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/16 "2017-11-27T02:12:45Z")
I don’t know all the symbols, but being able to quickly assess how many traits the troop has is useful to me when scouting. Whether it showed the specific traits or just a simple count would be equally good as far as I’m concerned, but I appreciate having this information on the face of the card. ---
**Author:** ![turintuor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/turintuor/32/4097_2.png) [@turintuor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/turintuor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 8:45am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/17 "2017-11-27T08:45:20Z")
So a 3-steps “progress bar” could be enough. ---
**Author:** ![Sidousai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sidousai/32/604_2.png) [@Sidousai](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sidousai)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/18 "2017-11-27T08:51:35Z")
> [@Cyrup](#): > > Do you mean, is it lighter in the image I showed of Kraken/what the game team is working on? Or can we make it lighter…? The boxes around the icons are too dark. Maybe even just get rid of the box borders completely? ---
**Author:** ![Sheba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sheba/32/45190_2.png) [@Sheba](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sheba)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 9:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/19 "2017-11-27T09:30:43Z")
I personally am very strongly against doing anything but moving them to the other side. 1. I ALWAYS look at the icon. While I cannot identify most of them, some which are very important to know (Stealth) I can and that’s what matters to me. I want to see if I cannot target a troop at first glance. Since I usually know all the skills by now, I tend to not check the troops by clicking on them anymore and would get a few nasty surprises that way. 2. Please don’t make them transparent. This game lost SO MUCH COLOR with the UI change already and I’m very happy that I can at least make out something clearly still when so many other things have become incredibly hard for me to see thanks to my vision problems. All the white text is still horrible on my eyes and all the black is depressing enough. Please let’s keep the colorful trait flags! ---
**Author:** ![Nephilim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nephilim/32/29092_2.png) [@Nephilim](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Nephilim)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402/20 "2017-11-27T22:24:48Z")
Can you please make brown traitstones actually brown? Oh, and make them look like traitstones too! Cheers! [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/visual-change-of-traits/33402.md?page=2)