Author Topic: More CTRL-middle-click goodness  (Read 1901 times)

Offline Barleyman

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More CTRL-middle-click goodness
« on: July 22, 2021, 12:53:39 am »
I'm not quite sure if this goes under OXCE or Xpiratez per se, but here goes:
One annoyance is that the screen where you especially would want it, the manufacturing screen, there's no way to view specs of the item in question. CTRL-m-click and m-click both take you to the tech browser, so you can't compare relative merits of, say, DOOM armour and Legion Armour before making some. Yes, you can go look it up in boobiepedia but to do that you have to back up to the geoscape.

I have no idea if this is something not easily done because of Star Gods but it's something I futilely reach for quite often.

Offline Nilex

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Re: More CTRL-middle-click goodness
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2021, 07:27:38 am »
It's OXC(E) stuff. I agree with you and even suggested the same thing (along dozen others) but some things that look easy/logical to implement are not quite so. Slippery slope between maintaining OG compatibility, adding new QoL stuff, not exploding OG game engine, or breaking existing stuff.

I can tell you it's gonna bug you all the way until the end, but less and less the more you manage to remember. The list will grow HUGE at one point (scroll slider will visually corrupt) so that will be the time to right-click and hide many garbage items. But don't do it too soon cause you'll just confuse yourself, not knowing what you're gonna need later.
Maybe you get lucky and it gets implemented during your playthrough. I got a few bones thrown my way and didn't even ask for them :)