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Switch name and health bar

I'd like to have health bars be below enemies, with names above them, it just feels alot more natural to me.  Letting us do this would be awesome :D
I second the ability to move the names to the top of the Tokens. We've been playing for months and it still messes up almost everyone in our group.
Seconded. +1
Yup i agree
+1 yes please, more intuitive.
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Gauss
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Speaking as a user, I find the current system to make more sense to me than hitpoints on bottom and name on top. Oh well. :) With that said, a bit of color coding or other means to better organize names and hitpoints could improve things.  - Gauss
Thanks for the replies :D This came up in my game when everyone thought the health bar for one of the player characters (even himself for a moment) was actually the health bar for the enemy attacking him.  It seems it's just a matter of personal preference.  I look forward to being able to switch them, though I hope I don't get so used to this system that switching will cause the same confusion again X.x
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Gauss
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What I do for health bars is I use red for the NPCs and green for the PCs. If I need a 2nd health bar (for example: mounts) I use blue.  The red bar is on top of the icon so it is easy to see who it belongs to. - Gauss
I'll let my GM in on that idea, that should help us keep things clearer in the mean time. EDIT: It seems we're just not seeing enemy health bars which also helps solve the problem.  Thanks anyways! ~Hype
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Gauss
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Ahhh well, some GMs do not let players see the health bars but in my mind it saves me from having to answer the question 'how bad does he look?'.  - Gauss
I think the idea of having a "bloodied" version of sprites that it switches to at half health would be cool, but we're just using a status effect marker for that.  I know it could end up doubling the work for anyone who doesn't just want to add blood to them, but it sounds like a good feature for those who sell premium sprites.
How about moving the health bar into the square with the sprite instead of floating in a square above or below it?  That way, there's no mistaking to which sprite the health bar belongs.
+1 (many times over) to Cuilean m.'s request!!!!!!
This sounds to me like a personal preference thing.  O have not played enough to have much of an opinion, but if there is a change made, it should be an option, not one way or the other.
@Cuilean - that would also help.