Well, thanks again Warsaalk because you are doing a great job, and seem very active

I put the word “discussion” on the subject of this thread because this is not intended as a suggestion by itself but —hopefully— the start of a discussion (if other people is interested in adding ideas) that would change OGotcha to the better. If this is not the place, or you prefer to open a discussion thread yourself, well, that's up to you.

I think it would be great if the formatting of the battle (colors, information, structure) could be discussed so we could get to a consensus, or at least Warsaalk could take interesting ideas and implement them. I will put the ideas that I have now here, but of course, I hope other users add suggestions here.

1. Why the rules?
   [align=center]Attacker UniverseView [UV-TEST]
   ________________________________________________
   
   Small Cargo 1.245 -> 334 (-911)
   Large Cargo 9.412 -> 4.170 (-5.242)
   Light Fighter 2.735 -> 740 (-1.995)
   Heavy Fighter 6.334 -> 2.730 (-3.604)
   Cruiser 3.523 -> 2.457 (-1.066)
   Battleship 1.244 -> 1.097 (-147)
   Colony Ship 2 -> 2 (-0)
   Recycler 1.284 -> 660 (-624)
   Espionage Probe 9 -> 0 (-9)
   Bomber 400 -> 358 (-42)
   Destroyer 1.952 -> 1.741 (-211)
   Deathstar 3 -> 3 (-0)
   Battlecruiser 2.534 -> 2.239 (-295)
   _________________________________________
   [/align]
   Are they really necessary? I think it would be cleaner without them.
   
2. If you want to have arrows, why not use unicode arrows? Would there be a problem?
   So we get Small Cargo 1.245 → 334 (-911) instead of Small Cargo 1.245 -> 334 (-911)
   
3. The same with the minus sign which as of this moment is an hyphen which is too short, may be better with unicode minus sign (it may seem a silly difference, but I think the hyphen is too short with the font used by default in OGame forums).
   So we get Small Cargo 1.245 → 334 (−911) instead of Small Cargo 1.245 -> 334 (-911)
   
4. The same with the coloring, I think the colors used in battles are not really good to read over a dark background (which is the default theme in these forums). May be someone with more experience with colors or user interfaces could suggest a better palette. As a first step, may be removing color from some parts would ease the reading (I add in the last lines the Spanish colors, not that I suggest them, but because that's what I see there, and may be gives you ideas):
   [align=center]
   Small Cargo 1.245 -> 334 (-911)
   Small Cargo 1.245 → 334 (−911)
   Small Cargo 1.245 → 334 (−911)
   Small Cargo 1.245 → 334 (−911)
   [/align]
   
5. What about leaving the ending results to the last part of the line? Instead of Small Cargo 1.245 -> 334 (-911)
   we could have Small Cargo 1.245 -> (-911) -> 334 or
   [align=center]
   Small Cargo 1.245 → (−911) → 334
   Small Cargo 1.245 → (−911) → 334
   [/align]
   
6. Another idea that might ease the reading might be using words (as you can see these are mostly ideas coming from Spanish, that is basically what I know):
   [align=center]
   Small Cargo 1.245 lost 911 (remaining 334)
   Small Cargo 1.245 lost 911 (remaining 334)
   [/align]
   The reason for this is because Small Cargo 1.245 -> 334 (-911) compresses all the information in a small space, and may be giving space to breathe might give better results.
   

So, here they go a bunch of suggestions that might get this thread started. I hope people contribute with their ideas. Mine are just suggestions that come from thinking a little bit about what would ease the view of a battle, also mixed with ideas that I see in the Spanish forum (other communities probably have ideas that are not in the rest of communities).

For instance the above battle could be also written like