Hi guys,
Ive been playing Vintage Story for a couple months and ive just cleared the resonance archive on my first blind vanilla playthrough 150h or so in. I just wanted to make some suggestions for the UX for the lore books.
Make mousing over a lore book show the books info: " 'The spy and the sparrow', book 2 of 10 (read), (6/10 total read)".
Make the (J) journal show how many of a given story you have already read eg "6/10 books read", same as the initial notification when you read an unread book.
Make the journal reflect the actual format of the books instead of just showing "1/17 pages" when there are 10 books, all with 1 to 3 pages.
This one is personal taste, but I think making each book of a series the same color, instead of all random would make more sense.
The current lore UX is extreamly tedious in regards to trying to collect all the books and organise them (I have to open every book just to know what it even is), and honestly made me not care to collect or read the lore, which sucks because the lore seems awesome.
Thanks for reading (post 1/1 read).