Please allow us to use the pre-0.30 UI as an option

As more and more changes are happening with the UI to make “stuff more visible”, I find I am more and more on the opposite side. The least we have (as long as we can “mouse-over” for more information taking more room") then the happier I get.

So just give us an option. Clearly those UI parts are still in existence somewhere as some ppl do rollbacks to play older version of the game that still have them.

Speaking of :

  • Smaller portrait in a circle instead of a square.
  • Slimmer emotion bar with all emotions in said bar
  • Getting the old “Cat’s Eye” Zoi pointer instead of the arrow.
  • Hiding/Disabling the Zoi bubbles over their head.
  • Having urges have that white bar shrinking the least time we had.
  • Getting rid of the Pocket Market spam too, since it clutter the UI (you put something on // something sold).
  • Now they are changing the “urges” thing which was really small, so I’ll preemptively add it here.

Without sounding like a jerk, it’s time to stop catering to players that cant be bothered to “mouse-over” the smaller UI to get that big window on screen… Thing is they actually CAN mouse-over and see it while the rest of us CANNOT make the UI back to it’s smaller/sleeker form from pre-UI updates.

Also the fact that each updates I need to add something on this list is disheartening.
Please consider giving us that option, I do not feel it’s too much to ask.
Thank you !

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I asked the question in Kjun’s channel now labelled “10.03.25 - Swimming”
Feel free to upvote it if you want to support such an option.
Thank you !

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FYI - Now it seems they’ve created another thread on the Discord called “10.10.25 - Length of”
Sadly, I feel I had to repost my question there, losing all the accumulated support from the old one.
Feel free to re-add your voice at your leisure.

[ EDIT : proper link at the bottom-ish of this thread ]

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If nothing changes, the new video (scheduled for tomorrow) will open the next brainstorm, keeping the weekly cadence – October 3, 10, and 17 around 18:00 KST.

After the Comment Response on Wednesday and until Friday, it’s less likely that Kjun will be reading the previous brainstorm.

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I’ll have to copy paste it again then.
I did not expect them to make a new thread each time, tho it make sense as far as ordering stuff goes.

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Alright, third time’s the charm.

Idea copied in the new thread from today by Kjun.
Cross your fingers folks ! And thank you to everyone which supports this idea :growing_heart:

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Updated link for this week feedback questions, since it was not answered in the last one.

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Watching SugarZOI’s stream right now. The urges bar got inflated at least 4x in size, if not more…
Every update you make UI element bigger. And I am part of the crowd that liked the original minimalistic UI.

Please give us the option to have the old UI already… It’s the least you could do.
Those that like losing more of their immersive game screen to oversized UI elements can keep having their fun.
We could have ours as well by just picking the one we want from the menu.

Sorry to insist, but I’ve been asking this since the Cahaya update, and have not gotten a single squeak of information either to shut up as it would never happen, or it’s being worked on, please stand-by, or we’re going to work on that later.

All I could do is shrug and throw my hands in the air saying out loud… “omg not again !”
Please consider the slim UI with the cat’s eye from pre-0.20.
PPl can still access the old version from steam if they want to, so it’s not that it is not available anymore.

Thank you for considering and coming back to us.

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Updated link for this week feedback questions, since it was not answered in the last one, still…

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Your post has finally gained a solid number of upvotes. I’ve added my own reply below in support of this request.

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Great, hopefully we’ll get an answer this time. It’s as much as we can ask (and keep asking).

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Plus, there was another request from a familiar member of the local community:

It seems to me that the round cat’s eye above the character’s head emphasized the atmosphere of the game more and could become its symbol, like a plumbop in The Sims, this faceless triangle is not at all appropriate, it takes away some of the uniqueness of the game

Discord

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Thanks, I upvoted his post as well.

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Updated link for this week feedback questions, since it was not answered in the last one, still…

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the new urges window is hideous and unnecessarily huge

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  • Getting the old “Cat’s Eye” Zoi pointer instead of the arrow.
    :this:
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Updated link for this week feedback questions, since it was not answered in the last one, still…

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Updated link for this week feedback questions, since it was not answered in the last one, still…
I really do not know why nobody comments on that from their side. :sob:

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Unfortunately, I think the obvious answer is that if they’re not responding to it, it’s not happening. I sympathise, but I can understand why having multiple options would cause issues for them given how often the UI is likely to change during early access. It may have to wait until UI mods are possible.

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It’s a fairly balanced summary, or maybe we just didn’t figure out that Discord can generate an AI summary, and that our specifics don’t matter to it (it was something like “about UI” in the latest response and that’s all). There are many factors.

That’s why I keep urging to write in clear wording and in separate posts, not counting on upvotes. For example my colleague supported me with “I completely agree about the forum!”, but what does that even mean for the AI summary? Or some posts were highlighted by Kjun where there are no support at all

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