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Re: Shipsets

Sat, 07 October 2006 18:34

Coyote

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When making the UI, just think about the things you do most often and make those easiest to access. It's OK with me if the UI is different from Stars! as long as it's logical and quick to use. KB shortcuts are very nice, but spacially intuitive layouts help too.

Perhaps consider putting the map in the middle with a planet pane on one side and a fleet pane on the other (so you can see both at once) - panes can be collapsible to the edge of the screen to reveal more of the map. Also, the map could have some of the fun tools like XB has... perhaps a "force projection" display that puts a 100ly bright hollow circle around each planet with a gate and a dim one around planets without gates, or something like that. Or a better population view where planets project a big hollow circle around themselves proportional to population so territory density is easy to see. And a similar view for total resources and for defensive coverage... maybe allow these sort of filters to stack onto each other. Also, a similar display for fleets - the fleets each get a circle around them with size proportional to the fleet's mass (less cargo, of course). Then combining pop density with fleet density you can see strong and weak points in defensive coverage...

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		Shipsets By: Sober Council on Thu, 10 August 2006 05:58
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Sun, 13 August 2006 08:09
		Re: Shipsets By: ForceUser on Wed, 16 August 2006 04:12
		Re: Shipsets By: Sober Council on Wed, 16 August 2006 05:23
		Re: Shipsets By: ForceUser on Wed, 16 August 2006 08:31
		Re: Shipsets By: Marduk on Wed, 16 August 2006 09:40
		Re: Shipsets By: ForceUser on Wed, 16 August 2006 10:46
		Re: Shipsets By: Sober Council on Wed, 16 August 2006 13:25
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Wed, 16 August 2006 21:32
		Re: Shipsets By: Sober Council on Thu, 17 August 2006 02:43
		Re: Shipsets By: ForceUser on Thu, 17 August 2006 03:29
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Thu, 17 August 2006 04:35
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Sun, 20 August 2006 19:54
		Re: Shipsets By: crr65536 on Sun, 20 August 2006 23:37
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Mon, 21 August 2006 01:19
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Mon, 28 August 2006 13:16
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Mon, 28 August 2006 15:05
		Re: Shipsets By: LEit on Mon, 28 August 2006 21:07
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Mon, 28 August 2006 22:20
		Re: Shipsets By: ForceUser on Tue, 29 August 2006 04:23
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Tue, 29 August 2006 06:44
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Fri, 01 September 2006 13:40
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Wed, 13 September 2006 19:01
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Thu, 14 September 2006 06:44
		Re: Shipsets By: Sober Council on Mon, 28 August 2006 06:14
		Re: Shipsets By: Sober Council on Tue, 29 August 2006 09:35
		Re: Shipsets By: ForceUser on Wed, 30 August 2006 04:31
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Wed, 27 September 2006 22:39
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Sat, 30 September 2006 18:33
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Sun, 01 October 2006 07:50
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Sun, 01 October 2006 12:22
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Sun, 01 October 2006 18:20
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Wed, 04 October 2006 19:41
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Thu, 05 October 2006 06:20
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Thu, 05 October 2006 10:07
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Thu, 05 October 2006 11:32
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Thu, 05 October 2006 12:56
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Thu, 05 October 2006 18:59
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Fri, 06 October 2006 03:46
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Fri, 06 October 2006 03:56
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Fri, 06 October 2006 07:26
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Fri, 06 October 2006 07:42
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Fri, 06 October 2006 19:12
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Sat, 07 October 2006 10:39
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Sat, 07 October 2006 18:34
		Re: Shipsets By: tgellan on Sun, 08 October 2006 05:01
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Sun, 08 October 2006 06:50
		Re: Shipsets By: Kotk on Sun, 08 October 2006 17:47
		Re: Shipsets By: m.a@stars on Mon, 09 October 2006 06:35
		Re: Shipsets By: Coyote on Tue, 03 October 2006 23:27

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