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what's YOUR problem with this?You won't have to. I promise, that if any bug comes because of this, i will fix that!
i've already explained that i am not interested in this feature, i do not believe it is warranted, and i will not support it.
nobody has ever complained that 6x6 isn't enough,This is not entirely true! pmprog already expressed that he LIKES this idea.
and anyone who does is not used to playing games, because games have rules and limitations.And why do you want to decide which limitations to be used instead of the people who actually play the game?
there is no justification for this addition other than "just because we can" and this doesn't add anything other than useless excess.Wrong!
conversely: this is going to cause more issues than it "solves", for example a base defense mission that takes 36 hours to play out because we didn't know when to say "enough is enough"The base defense does not have to take 36 hours, if you place the buildings smartly.
@SupSuper and @Warboy1982: What do you guys think about the ideas in this thread? What would you like to see?I'm also curious about their opinion.
On that note, though, how do you indicate that there isn't enough equipment to fully equip all the soldiers with a particular layout when you change that layout?When the layout changes, it reapplies to all soldiers whose have that layout. It applies as much as it can, and if there is not enough, then it reverts to custom layout (but keeps as much close to the layout as possible), and shows an error message.
if it is done, +1 for showing in the foreground, either as a dismissable popup or as a hover popup, but either way is somewhat out of place in the xcom ui. I'd be worried about making the interface (and the code) too complicated.Never worry about the code. That's my problem.
1. you don't need a rename button. similar functionality is available elsewhere in the UI (like renaming crafts) simply by clicking on the name.I thought this before. But consider the following: The player clicks to the editbox, types a name, then clicks to Create. Now he renamed a layout, and created a new one with identical name. But his original intention is to create a new layout with the typed name. Of course he can do that by clicking on the Create FIRST and then typing the name (rename).
2. for parity with how other UI screens look (such as the purchase/sell/equipment screens), perhaps remove the top two buttons and replace them with left/right arrow buttons to the left of each soldier name. this would also enable the left arrow key as a shortcut for saving the soldier's layout to the selected layout name and the right arrow key as a shortcut for applying the selected layout to the soldier. this would make this screen as keyboard-accessible as option one. just type down-right-down-right-down-right... to apply a layout to the entire squad instead of option 1's tab-v-tab-v-tab-v... This is a little different from the idea of using left click to apply and right click to save, but nowhere else in the UI is a right click used for anything but cancel or "take all", and using right click to save might be out of place.This is a very good idea!!!
3. a limitation of the current screen for option 3 compared to the other two options is that you can't see what the layout includes. is there any way to show the regular inventory screen as a background image for the layout manager screen that can indicate what the selected layout is? that may not be possible (or aesthetically pleasing), though.You're right about this, and i also thought this before. But think about it. There are NAMES for the layouts. You have to know what layout name associated with what layout. The name should be communicative. This way you don't have to actually see the layout itself. But if you want to see it, you can see it by moving back to the Inventory view.
4. if space becomes tight because of these revisions, create and delete buttons could be replaced with plus and X symbol icons.This is also a good idea, but not those spaces occupied by those buttons is our real problem now.
Will the save, made with one option work with another option?Merging both only have a sense if they work with each other...
)as for new sounds new music and new interface... i'm not at all sure what you mean, the music and sound effects are all original, and the only interface changes we've made have been usability oriented, like incorporating the scroll wheel.Exactly!! That's the point!
as for new features, anything i add that goes outside the realms of what ufo had to offer are disabled and unused by default. anyone picking up the game to play without fiddling with options or mods should have more or less the same experience as someone playing the original xcom, albeit with the aforementioned usability tweaks.
there should be no need for an alternative fork like hszp suggests, the default package represents this. anything that's an optional extra is exactly that, optional. nobody is forcing you to use pathfinding preview, or to enforce containment limits, or use shotguns.
Yup. There is good criticism and bad criticism. And trolling.I couldn't agree more.