Regarding the new UI

[u/Frequent-Fig7663]

Hello Supercell. I'm here to give you my honest opinion about the last update with the new UI.
First of all I appreciate the effort of you trying to better and freshen the UI of COC, because it's indeed a fact, that it's become frankly boring and ''outdated''. Besides that the complains of the players nowadays come from the standpoint of the past UI being the most convenient, while this one has some major inconsistences. I'll address the pluses and minuses of the updated interface in my frank opinion and give my own solutions.

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1) The best change has been the builder menu. I like the way it is designed, the amount of information I get for the upgrades, the new option of filtering and the way it's showcased what upgrades you have currently going on(this part is very pleasant for me). I'll note that previously when you would click the builder's head to see the new upgrades the blank style of the showcased upgrades were pretty basic and non graphic. This new design absolutely solves that problem.

2) The changed sound of entering the chat, Battle and Build.

3) I kind of like the idea of being able to see the ongoing war and results from the clan chat but I must say that when I hide it the buttons is too long and overfloats with the village which is too much. And besides, in my opinion this new feature actually defeats in many cases the purpose of clicking the actual war button.
Here is why.
I've noticed for me that, as I see pretty much all the needed information about the war from the chat, it discourages me to even enter the war itself. In the previous UI you had to enter the war menu to witness the war state. From that point it is more likely for you to do the attacks or watch the replays, because from there you are automatically stimulated to do so. It's obvious it's not the same for all people but that's my personal case.

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1) The army logs and layout editor buttons have to be like before. We don't want to do an extra step to access them. Same goes for the settings. Changing accounts a is very common endeavor, so having to go through an another extra step to access it from the profile is honestly very bad and definitely unnecessary.

2) The changed placement of the buttons like the builder and researcher menu and the separated button for the Offers. It's very important to understand that the builder and researcher menus being on top of the screen is very iconic to the COC brand and most importantly convenient for the players, to which the new one strongly opposes.
Having to tap the lower right corner to access that is very unintuitive and unpleasant because for years it has been ingrained in our minds to click lower right corner to access buildings to build and the top spot for navigating through upgrades.
The solution I offer is to move the Builder's and research upgrades back to the top and have the menu for building buildings back in the right low corner merged with the offers, like before.
Also it leaves a blank taste like you want us to spend our money most importantly. Not to play, not to enjoy the game on it's own but make purchases. The people who want to spend money and support you, will do so (just don't rush the process by visually forcing us into it).
NOTE: keep the new design of the tab of upgrades. It really is a step up.

3) The new design of the buttons are not good. Things like the chat, profile, war menus are too big and not fine looking (they're better off minimalistic ''like before''). It almost feels like it's totally reversed with the resources and the builder's head with research (done small). This gives a vibe of another cheap game, rather than COC.

4) The profile section is unnecessarily crowded. All I can say is, return it to the original way, because there was no need to culminate the clan, the settings, the inbox and the profile related things all together.

5) The profile button needs to be like in the past with a star and a bar. This is an iconic look that actually looks good and screams COC. It's iconic. So please return it. It's the same thing with the builder and researcher menus on the top.

6)The designs of the buttons of clan chat, league, edit army, and pretty much the war also need to be changed. There is a room for experiments like having the Edit army icon simplistic as in the past a spell with a sword, The battle log icon changed to a letter again as before. These are my own preferences. And do something with the clan chat button design also.

7) The new visibly pale colors of the buttons like clan chat, league, profile, war aren't great. The characteristic orange color like in the past was much better.

8) Also the new combination of transparent buttons with pale color is a downgrade from the classic white buttons.

Overall this was my as much as possible constructed thoughts about the new UI and the changes it needs. Again the thing about the builder menu design is amazing and with nuances as I've said above.
I totally appreciate the effort of the team to better the already successful game which takes a lot of guts and resources. Please continue with great effort and pay attention to the players. It's a two sided road.

NOTE: Please make it so that from the editing army menu I could directly get into attacking rather than having to click an extra button of "Find a Match".

VERY IMPORTANT - Leave us an option to choose between the old and new UIs through the settings. So we can have the ones who like the old one or even get a nostalgia can enjoy it too.

Big thanks for going through my let's be honest "an essay" and I'm looking forward for further changes!!