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One of the big features coming along in Alpha 3.16 is refueling. As far as the UI and the interface, what's your involvement been in refueling up to this point?

TL;DRRefueling currently has a rough placeholder UI built by the design team, and UI staff are working closely with them to make it look good, with players expected to see it soon.

Simon BurseyUI Director

OK. Well, refueling is a good one, actually. It's going really well. So when we started out, there was a game design doc that EU PU made, which was pretty cool. And then initially, I had some conversations with those guys. We just roughed out some really basic ideas for the UI. So I would just draw some boxes and put text on, so they had an idea of a very vague direction where I would take it. And then we left it with them for a bit. And they've been implementing the actual system. And then using the Building Blocks stuff, they've put in this placeholder UI. So it's all working. It's good. It just looks a bit rough around the edges. And then, I think I mentioned it before, we haven't taken it off them. We're working really closely with them to kind of take that and make it good. So process-wise, we've got one of the guys who is kind of a mixture between a graphic designer and a UI designer. So he's taken those initial screens and rejigged the layout a little bit and resized things and also applied this nice color scheme and little graphical elements on there. So he's going to make these visual versions that are 2D, they're just kind of in Photoshop or whatever. And then on the other hand, we've got one of our technical UI designers who's taking those concepts and kind of marrying them up with the stuff that EU PU have created. So actually implementing it in Building Blocks. So that's the ideal process, and it seems to be working really well just now. So I'm pretty happy with that. I guess everyone will get to see it quite soon.

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Published on this date.5 Nov 2021