[Suggestion/Interface] Need minion count displayed

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As brad recently talked about in the newest dev journal, we need the number of minions displayed.  I think this is necessary particularly for ability minions, such as Yeti, because recasting them occurs even when you have a full compliment and that makes it a mana drain unless you want to count by hand.  I have been playing with this idea for the past couple of weeks and decided to put up a mock up of how a possible ui could look.  If your pros have better idea, of course roll with that.  I just want something small that tells me how many I have, I don't need the HP of each, but if you want to include that, make it a tooltip.  If I roll over the number show,the HP.

 

If you expand it, please do, you can see the icons on the UI.

 

                                          

 

As I stated above, the numbers are clearly visible, but small and unobtrusive.  In order to make it work and make things look nice, I had to shift the Yetis to ability 1 and move pounce to ability 2.  What are your thoughts on this suggestion?

 

Please go easy on the photoshop job, it is my first try.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Perfect. That is EXACTLY what I was hoping it would be.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Looks very nice, they could even make it look this way in-game. I think it's very important to have something like this while playing generals to really make the best use of your minions.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Wow that is pretty good. +1 karma. I hope they take over your idea. I also like the style you use with Photoshop, I can see it directly copied in the game.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Yeah it's necessary to see the number of minions, you're totally right.

Nice job for pics and.. as Heavenfall said it would be perfect.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

This is a good idea, with beautiful presentation. 

Is it me or did you photoshop Portrait Sedna's cleavage too?  8|

 

 

J/K ;P

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

Can we please get this feature?

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

I agree. We need a way to count our live minions.

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

Nice to see the new blood thinks this deserves a look.

Reply #11 from Demigod Forums Top

What we also need is Text on the Mana and HP bar. Its driving me crazy having to hover the mouse over it all the time to see the numbers!!!

Reply #12 from Demigod Forums Top

And a timer on debuffs/buffs showing seconds remiaingin