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Work In Progress / Scripted Scenarios? Tutorial?

« on: April 25, 2014, 05:57:38 pm »

Is it possible to create a scripted mission or scenario?

I ask because I had an idea for a *GASP*... tutorial scenario. I know some
folks seem to have an aversion to tutorials, but one of the problems for new
players of X-COM is it throws you into the deep end with little explanation
on what they should be doing or the mechanics of various UI doodads, etc.
which could chase off a potential fan of the game.

The common response to this is to RTFM, but unfortunately, not every gamer
is likely to do that. I'd imagine some don't even read the flavour text.

Anyways, thanks in advance for any response.

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Suggestions / Two UI Convenience Suggestions

« on: April 25, 2014, 06:41:33 am »

First UI suggestion:

Fully re-positional base tabs in the base management screen, for example:

EU Base, USA Base, Store\Build Base, Asia Base, ETC., ETC.,

Re-positioned to:

EU Base, USA Base, Asia Base, ETC., ETC., Store\Build Base.

Second UI suggestion:

When choosing to intercept a UFO\Site, it would be convenient if it would display
the available interceptors from closest to furthest distance rather than the method
already in place.

Another UI suggestion (I'm getting quite cheeky!):

Allow modders to add flavour text to their mods that displays when selecting a mod:

Author: MKSheppard (I hope he won't mind)
About: This mod adds several dozen new nations to the game; along with many more cities.
Install Notes: Changing mods will automatically restart OpenXcom...


I know adding features increases the chance of adding bugs etc., and at this late
stage of the 0.9 nightly builds, if added they would probably cause some issues
that could stall the 1.0 release.

Also, it would be quite rude of me to "demand" a feature without clicking the brib...
er... donate button first. I figured I'd offer my (vanilla UI friendly) feature
"suggestions" for possible future versions of OpenXcom. 

For the meantime, a question: Can I edit the saves to change the tab position of a
base? Heh...   

Edited: Added another suggestion.