0012359: Sensor vs LOS vs Fog of War mechanic initially confusing

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0012359	Bionic Dues	GUI		Sep 13, 2013 12:17 am	Sep 13, 2013 3:56 pm

Reporter	GrimerX	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	closed	Resolution	won't fix
Product Version	0.907 Start Of Alpha Round 2

Summary	0012359: Sensor vs LOS vs Fog of War mechanic initially confusing
Description	LOS was pretty clear. No issues there. Sensor range I didn't get at first. It wasn't clear to me why I could see x squares up and down but only y to the right. I thought maybe it had to do with sensors passing through walls and such. I was also expecting sensors to maintain their range whether or not I had visited a square. I expected things outside my sensor range to fade into fog-of-war. I can that the 'once visible, always perfect info' mechanic has some tie to the 'whistle' mechanic, so understand it's not a straightforward request to introduce fog-of-war for things outside the present sensor range.
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Internal Weight	New

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Sep 13, 2013 12:17 am	GrimerX	New Issue
Sep 13, 2013 3:56 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Internal Weight	=> New
Sep 13, 2013 3:56 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0033655
Sep 13, 2013 3:56 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	new => closed
Sep 13, 2013 3:56 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark
Sep 13, 2013 3:56 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => won't fix
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Category	Bug - UI => GUI

Chris_McElligottPark Sep 13, 2013 3:56 pm administrator ~0033655	Not having the intel after you've visited it is something I considered, and we did do it that way at one point, but then you have to have a different way for representing four levels of LOS: current vision, in-sensor, seeen-but-no-sensor, and never-seen. That gets incredibly visually complex fast, and just doesn't feel right, so we changed it to this.