I'm much more into graphics displays than text. When on a
MUD or MUD-like game I absolutely positively need the text colors or my eyes (or rather my brain) will be blanking out more times than not when trying to skim and read for important info. If there is a stream of combat 'spam', and the color format is good, I can handle it quite well. If it is black and white text, I'm damn near blind as things blur by way too fast to track.
That said, I wholy agree on the idea of colored level indicators.
Can have even match then up with wall materials, or League badge colors.
Can have...
- 1st Tier Black: ▅ (Current Standard)
- 2nd Tier Bronze: ▅
- 3rd Tier Silver: ▅
- 4th Tier Gold: ▅
- 5th Tier Elixir Crystal: ▅
- 6th Tier Darkened Crystal: ▅
- 7th Tier Lava/Fire!: ▅ (Current Max)
(Couldn't get a true to form max level color, since it looked too close to gold. Plus it is hard to get animated flaming text as a basic forum text format.)
Was looking for characters I could color, preferably with numbers, but best I could do, and make sure it worked for others, was to use basic ASCII character blocks.