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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5485638" data-attributes="member: 2011">I purchased a month subscription on Friday, mostly to get the Compendium again.1) My offline Character Builder stopped working right away after I got my new subscription. It just crashes now. That TOTALLY sucked. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant    :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" />2) The organization of feats is kind of lame and non-intuitive. For example, Wand Expertise is not in the Implement Expertise section. It's in the Other Heroic Tier section. WT???3) They have a super slow interface. So, why do they have all of the menus wide open? For example, if one goes to Portraits or Feats, every item in the super long list is visible. That means that you cannot find most things quickly because you are either too busy slowly scrolling through the extremely long window, or you are shutting each menu item so that you can get to the one you want.If the menus were defaulted closed instead, then you can open up any of the top 19 feat menus with a single button click, and you can open up any of the 7 bottom feat menus with two button clicks.One or two button clicks to get where you want to go, not a ton of scrolling through a list with ~450 things in it (and more as they add more feats).This is programming 101. I don't understand why a developer wouldn't see this right away. In the case of portraits, don't download 200 portraits slowly one by one. Instead, download the list of race menus and open the Dwarf portraits when the user clicks on the closed Dwarf menu. One button click to get to the Dwarve Portraits, not a ton of scrolling while every single picture they have slowly downloads from the server.Where is the Human Factors expert on the development team? Taking a nap???4) And the marketplace is kind of painful to use. If I'm building a PC, I want to compare similar weapons. I don't want a dropdown of every weapon where I have to select each one, click on it, read it, and do this for every single weapon I am interested in. The designers of the offline Character Builder understood that.This design is INSANE for what it is meant for. If you want to check out every single Heavy Thrown weapon to find one you like, you either have to know which ones are Heavy Thrown ahead of time, or you have to go through every weapon in the game system to find them all. The Search can only be used to limit the list AFTER you select a Category and a single Item. So if you search on heavy thrown, you have to select Simple Melee One Handed Category and Javelin Item to see Javelin in the list, and Military Melee One Handed Category and Handaxe Item to see Hand Axe in the list.New players would be totally clueless that certain weapon options even exist.5) And, there are a lot of minor user interface foobards. For example, I have a Wizard. I go to the marketplace. I click on Weapons. It shows Implements and Simple Weapons. I fart around for a while and finally figure out that the checkbox phrase "Show Suggested Items" actually means "Show Proficient Items". Is English really that hard of a language to understand for a company with dozens of writers and editors based in the United States?And why does it default to levels 1 through 30 for a first level PC? The program designers are totally clueless here.I'm sorry, but even though they have cleaned up some bugs, this is the second worse user interface that I've seen in the last decade (Hero Builder was worse).It has a lot of promise, especially in look and feel. But one of the first things that they need to do is to clean up the speed and to make some reasonable improvements.</blockquote>

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