0022476: ARS unlocks should state clearly whether a ship line is small, medium, or large for that ship type - DEV Arcen

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0022476	AI War 2	GUI		Jan 2, 2020 7:33 am	Jan 3, 2020 5:37 am

Reporter	Fluffiest	Assigned To	donblas
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	1.025 Hotfix
Fixed in Version	BETA 1.101 Ship Cap Reversions

Summary	0022476: ARS unlocks should state clearly whether a ship line is small, medium, or large for that ship type
Description	Currently, when I look at an ARS, I see something like: Huge Frigate 2x Tiny Swarmer 72x Not An X-Wing, Honest 25x And I have no idea if those numbers are good or bad. I'm on my first run through the game; I don't have the experience to know whether or not 72 tiny swarmers is a decently-sized fleet or if it's the lowest that the ARS could possibly have rolled. In fact, until someone mentioned it on Discord, I had no idea that ARSs actually randomized the ship line size! I thought a "tiny swarmer" line unlock was always 72 ships! Sure, I could ask on Discord, or I could dig through the game files, or I could painstakingly go over every line of the ship's stats to try to work out if 72 swarmers is equivalent in strength to 25 x-wings... but I shouldn't have to. I'm making an important decision, I want to feel that all of the information I need to make that decision is actually available, in the game, without being needlessly obfuscated. Otherwise I'm just cluelessly fumbling, and clueless fumbling feels really bad for the player. Please, change the ARS detailed tooltips and the hacking menu to display something more like this: Huge Frigate 2x (strong line) Tiny Swarmer 72x (medium line) Not An X-Wing, Honest 25x (very weak line) Or just list the approximate Strength value for each ship line. That way, I can make an intelligent, informed decision whether to take the strongest line in the ARS, or whether to take a weaker line that complements my current unlocks. Making intelligent, informed decisions feels good!
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Iocaine Jan 2, 2020 7:38 am reporter ~0055244	By preference, I would prefer a solution that removes this arbitrary variation altogether, but if it's here to stay then I would absolutely approve of this suggestion. The current interface simply doesn't provide important information required for a new player to do more than guess.

donblas Jan 2, 2020 4:04 pm developer ~0055282	I think adding the range as something that pops up with you hit ctrl (x - y) would be better, but small/medium/large is fine if we don't want to show exact numbers.

donblas Jan 2, 2020 9:23 pm developer ~0055296	Give that we have a new fixed range option, this is lower priority now.

BadgerBadger Jan 2, 2020 11:39 pm manager ~0055304	There's now a game lobby options to avoid this problem.

Fluffiest Jan 3, 2020 5:37 am reporter ~0055307	The "Remove Unlock Variance in Capturables" option is nice, but when variance is turned on, I still think the ARS hacking menus and tooltips should display whether a given roll is high, low, or medium. I don't see any benefit to obfuscating that information.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Jan 2, 2020 7:33 am	Fluffiest	New Issue
Jan 2, 2020 7:38 am	Iocaine	Note Added: 0055244
Jan 2, 2020 2:19 pm	BadgerBadger	Relationship added	related to 0022478
Jan 2, 2020 4:04 pm	donblas	Note Added: 0055282
Jan 2, 2020 4:45 pm	donblas	Assigned To	=> donblas
Jan 2, 2020 4:45 pm	donblas	Status	new => assigned
Jan 2, 2020 9:23 pm	donblas	Assigned To	donblas =>
Jan 2, 2020 9:23 pm	donblas	Note Added: 0055296
Jan 2, 2020 11:39 pm	BadgerBadger	Assigned To	=> BadgerBadger
Jan 2, 2020 11:39 pm	BadgerBadger	Status	assigned => closed
Jan 2, 2020 11:39 pm	BadgerBadger	Resolution	open => fixed
Jan 2, 2020 11:39 pm	BadgerBadger	Fixed in Version	=> BETA 1.101 Ship Cap Reversions
Jan 2, 2020 11:39 pm	BadgerBadger	Note Added: 0055304
Jan 2, 2020 11:39 pm	BadgerBadger	Assigned To	BadgerBadger => donblas
Jan 3, 2020 5:37 am	Fluffiest	Note Added: 0055307