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Curses / A few suggestions: Default activities and Escape to break off unintended actions
« on: August 18, 2013, 03:43:46 am »
I've seen setting default assignments being bandied about, and I was wondering what the status of that potential option is.
On the assign activities sceen I'd add two more keys: X - Set Default mode (toggle0 and Y - Activate default assigments
If you press X once, any character letter would toggle setting that characters default activity to whatever they have now: a second time it would reset that to a special activity NO_DEFAULT_ASSIGNMENT, which would make it insensitive to the Y key.
Pressing X a second time would return to normal activity assignment.
Pressing Y would assign all characters that do NOT have NO_DEFAULT_ASSIGNMENT or are tending to injuries their default activity.
I'd make some indication with the listed assignments to indicate the status of a characters deafult assignment, if their currnet assigment is their default assignment, print in yellow, if their current ass. isn't print in orange. If they don;t have a default, the current colour.
[Edit 20-08: Forget about the colour comment, that'd break the current colouring system, it's have to be some kind of (D) added, IF you wanted to make it being set visible.]
I think this would be the easiest to implement, and I'd do it myself today if I knew OO programming.
A second idea: make the Escape key break off and return to the previous page from whereever tyou ended up:
I am not a good typist, and my finger macros regularly go awry, so i keep getting into the set slogan thingy unintentionally, and then I can't back out of it.
And now a question: I've been trying to set an avatar in my profile, with this image:
But each time I press Save, the page returns reporting having succesfully saved my profile, but reset to No Avatar. Any idea what might go wrong? And how I can fix it?
Once more: thanks for a brilliant game, everyone.
Mazur.
On the assign activities sceen I'd add two more keys: X - Set Default mode (toggle0 and Y - Activate default assigments
If you press X once, any character letter would toggle setting that characters default activity to whatever they have now: a second time it would reset that to a special activity NO_DEFAULT_ASSIGNMENT, which would make it insensitive to the Y key.
Pressing X a second time would return to normal activity assignment.
Pressing Y would assign all characters that do NOT have NO_DEFAULT_ASSIGNMENT or are tending to injuries their default activity.
I'd make some indication with the listed assignments to indicate the status of a characters deafult assignment, if their currnet assigment is their default assignment, print in yellow, if their current ass. isn't print in orange. If they don;t have a default, the current colour.
[Edit 20-08: Forget about the colour comment, that'd break the current colouring system, it's have to be some kind of (D) added, IF you wanted to make it being set visible.]
I think this would be the easiest to implement, and I'd do it myself today if I knew OO programming.
A second idea: make the Escape key break off and return to the previous page from whereever tyou ended up:
I am not a good typist, and my finger macros regularly go awry, so i keep getting into the set slogan thingy unintentionally, and then I can't back out of it.
And now a question: I've been trying to set an avatar in my profile, with this image:
But each time I press Save, the page returns reporting having succesfully saved my profile, but reset to No Avatar. Any idea what might go wrong? And how I can fix it?
Once more: thanks for a brilliant game, everyone.
Mazur.