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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0025237 | AI War 2 | GUI | Jun 12, 2021 5:59 pm | Jun 23, 2021 1:56 pm | |
| Reporter | defekt | Assigned To | NRSirLimbo | ||
| Severity | minor | ||||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 3.104 Option For A Distributed Economy | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 3.304 Coilbeams No Longer Tickle | ||||
| Summary | 0025237: Unit Tooltip Now Missing Vital/Helpful Information | ||||
| Description | (sorry if this submits twice but this tool tends to crash on submission) The new unit tooltip does not show the faction owner, only the sub-faction name. For example, instead of saying 'AI Hunter Fleet of AI-Adaptive' it just says 'AI Hunter Fleet'. Granted, it does show the title in the colour of the faction owner but when you're playing with lots of factions, honestly, who's going to remember who all of those colours belong to - especially when there are several shades of the same colour in the game. It reaches a point where I'm looking at a unit and all I now know is that it belongs to one of the red shaded factions, and that's not helpful at all. The tooltip also no longer shows the friendly name of the unit. Instead of saying 'Cloaked Transport Flagship Strike Firebrand' it just says 'Cloaked Transport Flagship'. Both of the above greatly assist in tracking down what is where and not showing that information on the unit tooltip is only complicating matters, not simplifying. | ||||
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I think looking at the colour is pretty clear, especially since you can modify the colour to your taste in the Edit Factions menu |
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Despite the expressed misgivings on the first issue, I want to second the 2nd issue they pointed out. The fleet name is now hidden about 2/3rds of the way down in the wall of text which I almost never read (because most of its always the same for the same class of unit). I lookup the fleet name regularly when I need to support an unexpected area. I find the nearest transport, then find the fleet name, then select the fleet properties to swap ship lines around. I do this every 5-10 minutes in my late gameplay, so I feel like the fleet name deserves a dedicated field of some sort. |
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The potential for a good number of factions being present in the same game, and each one of those factions having sub-factions, and each of those being represented by a colour combination a) very quickly becomes too many to remember and b) even quicker you run out of primary and secondary colours before you end up having to use many shades of the same colour. With the simple addition of the owning faction name in the tooltip the user gets all of the information they need in one line; the players that have a more visually slanted memory will probably be okay with just the colours (and even then only up to a point when the faction/sub-faction count is high) and everyone else gets the text. |
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I do think having the Fleet Name is very important. |
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Alright, I'll see what I can find. There has to be a way to make this readable and meaningful in the tooltips. |
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* Updated the first row of tooltips to once again include the AI type and player fleet name. ** Requested by defekt and BadgerBadgerBadger on Mantis. Thanks! |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Jun 12, 2021 5:59 pm | defekt | New Issue | |
| Jun 12, 2021 6:00 pm | defekt | Description Updated | |
| Jun 12, 2021 6:01 pm | defekt | Description Updated | |
| Jun 12, 2021 8:23 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0062069 | |
| Jun 12, 2021 8:54 pm | novellus | Note Added: 0062071 | |
| Jun 14, 2021 8:54 am | defekt | Note Added: 0062084 | |
| Jun 23, 2021 9:51 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => NRSirLimbo |
| Jun 23, 2021 9:51 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => assigned |
| Jun 23, 2021 12:14 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0062238 | |
| Jun 23, 2021 12:49 pm | NRSirLimbo | Note Added: 0062239 | |
| Jun 23, 2021 1:56 pm | NRSirLimbo | Status | assigned => resolved |
| Jun 23, 2021 1:56 pm | NRSirLimbo | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Jun 23, 2021 1:56 pm | NRSirLimbo | Fixed in Version | => 3.304 Coilbeams No Longer Tickle |
| Jun 23, 2021 1:56 pm | NRSirLimbo | Note Added: 0062241 |
