The GUI should be customizable via the settings. Even Pokemon Gold had customizable GUI's!
I know that the GUI is customizable via modded files, but i'm talking about a setting which has some basic GUI changes. Among them could be a few color changes or different fonts. It's nothing too difficult to achieve and it would add the the polish of the game. It would help the average users to feel more immersed in the game because they can make the GUI fit their individual taste.
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But NaitDawg, this is going to take time away from substitute/natural cure/etc!
That's hardly true. Darkshade would be the one to work on 99% of this. He only works on the graphical parts of the game, aside from some conceptual work. The coding that goes along with actual content has VERY LITTLE to do with this.
OK, maybe you're right about that, but we already have a customization subforum, and customizable files! This is dumb!
We do have the things you just said. However, as the staff has said, about 1% of the players in the game use the forums. The solution you mentioned literally does nothing for 99% of players. Besides, not everyone on the forums wants to use some GUI file that has bugs and requires a bit of tech savvy. Even if 75% of the users on the forum use customized GUI's, then only (approximately) 00.75% of players have a customized GUI. That's hardly a solution to the problem.