Farmville has been updated with a new interface for animals. When an animal is ready for collecting, they no longer glow pink. Instead a pink tab appears above the animal. When you’ve got your animals crammed together enough to enrage a member of PETA, you start to have trouble selecting your animals. In theory, this change should make it easier to select the animals. However, I think the execution could be a bit better. In some cases, the hot spot or actionable space is not in direct correlation with the tab space. The tabs work well for horses, cows, and baby elephants. But I think it needs improvement for the smaller animals such as ducks, pigs, goats, and bunnies.
Intuitively, you’d expect the central point of the hot spot to be the center of the tab. But the actual center is to the right of the tab. Meaning if you aim your cursor toward the tab and are slightly off to the left of the tab, you’ll actually be selecting the animal to the left, rather than the animal you intended. See visual below explaining the hot spot location.
Because of this offset hot spot, I find the tabs to not really be an improvement over the old interface. We still have problems selecting animals either way.
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