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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0024316 | AI War 2 | Gameplay Idea | Jan 10, 2021 12:01 am | Mar 12, 2021 9:09 pm | |
| Reporter | BadgerBadger | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 2.715 Unload Queuing | ||||
| Fixed in Version | Beta 2.757 Super Mega Exciting Sidebar | ||||
| Summary | 0024316: Better notifications for crippled flagships | ||||
| Description | When I play multiplayer, we do a bunch of players controlling a single faction. In general, each player has their own Flagship, while I run overall strategy. In tonight's session, I saw a number of newer players really confused when their Flagships got crippled. In many cases it wasn't obvious to them why their ships weren't loading, and so they'd sit and wait until I pointed out to them that the flagship was crippled. The most obvious mechanism would be to queue a log message on the right hand side of the screen, but I suspect true novices won't notice there. Is there some way people can think of to give good feedback for people who are really really new to the game? I suspect a lot of novices struggle with this. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| related to | 0024535 | resolved | Chris_McElligottPark | Flagship Health Monitoring |
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Stick a wrench icon over crippled flagships and after the part where the mouse over says its crippled just put something like (Needs Repairs!) |
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The fact that a flagship is crippled is already represented with an icon over the flagship, and I believe the tooltip already indicates that a flagship is crippled. This clearly isn't enough. |
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Perhaps a voice line for "The flagship is crippled" could be played or something? |
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Another suggestion: Put some real UI feedback in the Planet sidebar that will warn you when flagships are crippled, or getting low on health. Thoughts: Flagships in the planet sidebar have a coloured box around the button. That colour represents the health of the unit. So you can use the planet sidebar to quickly tell whether your flagships are crippled. |
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Thanks! ==== Local Fleets On Planet Sidebar Tab ==== * The fleets sidebar no longer has a top section, with blue colors, noting fleets that are on the current planet. ** This has always been something that a lot of people find confusing, even though it was organizationally handy. But the confusion of this, mainly with it being on the fleet sidebar, was just too much. We can do this a better way. * On the planets sidebar, you can now see the fleets that are at the local planet, listed by default under all the other ships. ** The tooltips and controls on these buttons, and most of the button visuals, are identical to what you see on the fleets tab. ** The main difference is that instead of showing the planet name of the fleet, it shows either blank space (when all is well) or the shield bar if the flagship of the fleet has taken shield damage, or the health bar if the flagship has taken damage. * When the flagship of a fleet is crippled, it now shows up with the words CRIPPLED in orange on both the fleets tab sidebar and the planets sidebar. ** This makes it super obvious when that's actually going on. * All of the fleet management subscreens can now be open on either the fleets or planets tabs. Since you can now open them on the planet tab, this saves a lot of effort in terms of clicking over to the fleets tab, particularly when upgrading fleets that happen to be on the current planet. * On the planet sidebar, you can now see the strength of fleets like you can on the fleets tab. However, it's shown by the overall fleet health meter (both of these get replaced by the crippled notice if the flagship is crippled. * Also on the planet sidebar, if you hold shift you will notice that the ship cap numbers get replace with the colored name of the planet the flagship is on. ** This is less crucial information, but having it in easy toggle range is nice. * On both the fleet tab and planet tab, if a fleet is in transport mode, it now has a little cyan (T) behind its name. ==== Watched Fleets ==== * Added a new Fleet Watchlist feature in the fleet management details window: ** Normally on the planet sidebar, you can see a list of all the fleets you have on that planet, including the health of the flagship. There are times where you want to keep an eye on a fleet at all times, even when it's on other planets, though. The fleet watchlist allows you to monitor specific fleets on the planet tab of the sidebar regardless of where you go. ** If a fleet would show up on the watchlist AND the local planet fleet list, it just shows up on the local planet list, since that's more informative. * if a watched fleet is on the current planet, and the current planet local fleets are shown and open, then it doesn't double-show the fleet in both. It just includes the fleet on the local planet list (but keeps the count of fleets correct in both categories). |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Jan 10, 2021 12:01 am | BadgerBadger | New Issue | |
| Jan 10, 2021 12:01 am | BadgerBadger | Status | new => assigned |
| Jan 10, 2021 12:01 am | BadgerBadger | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Jan 10, 2021 12:10 am | CRCGamer | Note Added: 0060262 | |
| Jan 10, 2021 2:20 am | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0060263 | |
| Jan 10, 2021 5:14 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0060269 | |
| Feb 28, 2021 2:29 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0060664 | |
| Mar 4, 2021 1:18 am | BadgerBadger | Note Edited: 0060664 | |
| Mar 11, 2021 1:40 am | BadgerBadger | Relationship added | related to 0024535 |
| Mar 12, 2021 9:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | assigned => resolved |
| Mar 12, 2021 9:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Mar 12, 2021 9:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Fixed in Version | => Beta 2.757 Super Mega Exciting Sidebar |
| Mar 12, 2021 9:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0060750 |
