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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0023015AI War 2GUIMar 13, 2020 12:03 pm
ReporterHistidine Assigned To 
Status newResolutionopen 
Product Version2.009 Plenty Of Tuning 
Summary0023015: Improve Intel display
DescriptionThe existing intel pane is a pain to navigate, especially when you have to scroll through a list of 100 or more items. It takes considerably more time and effort than it should to do things like "find all data centers I can reach".

My ideal intel display would be the one from Starsector, which uses a tag filter system. See this dev blog post (particularly screenshots 3-5): http://fractalsoftworks.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-intel-ui/
In AIW2, this would make it easy to e.g. have a map showing all the planets with AIP reducers/golems/capturables at once.

The current GUI pane could be modified to approximate this functionality by introducing the following features:
- Buttons to expand/collapse all categories
- Allow selecting multiple intel items at once, thereby highlighting all their planets on the galaxy map
- New options to sort the order of intel items, beyond the current priority-then-defense-estimate (e.g. alphabetical sort would serve to put items involving the same type of unit together)
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Mar 13, 2020 12:03 pm

reporter   ~0056515

Even just making the intel display start out entirely collapsed, rather than entirely open, would be a good start.

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Date Modified Username Field Change
Mar 13, 2020 10:36 am Histidine New Issue
Mar 13, 2020 12:03 pm Fluffiest Note Added: 0056515