I think the map window and the combat window should be disabled for new users. Getting important output in different windows makes playing much more difficult than if everything is in one window. Especially the combat window seems to be confusing newbies a lot. The windows might seem like a good idea on paper, but in practise they are impossible to play with.

Not really, atleast for me the multiple windows has helped alot. Especially the map window (I get a warm and fuzzy feeling of roguelikes from the map window.. <3).

When I do combat I look at the Main Window to see my hp's and the Status Monitor to see enemies hp bar. The combat window has been so far pretty useless, it just gives you too much combat spam to be really usefull (except for the coloured crit hits). If the combat text would be in the Main Window the spam would make the combat even more confusing and hard to follow. Only thing I would like to see is coloring your 'hits on the enemy' and the enemies 'hits on you' with different colors (I dont know if this is already possible from the options..).

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Nice, thanks.