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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...   8)

Edited: Added another suggestion.
« Last Edit: April 25, 2014, 02:51:31 pm by Shodanbot »

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Re: Two UI Convenience Suggestions
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2014, 08:48:59 am »
i would like to see an option for more than 8 bases
perheps something for after 1.0 :)

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Re: Two UI Convenience Suggestions
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2014, 09:39:26 am »
i would like to see an option for more than 8 bases
perheps something for after 1.0 :)

There is a patch form Fenyo that does that and more.

Not sure if it's ready for main yet.

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Re: Two UI Convenience Suggestions
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2014, 02:52:18 pm »
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...

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Re: Two UI Convenience Suggestions
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2014, 03:13:04 pm »
Allow modders to add flavour text to their mods that displays when selecting a mod.

Mod metadata will be in, but after 1.0

Next question? :)

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Re: Two UI Convenience Suggestions
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2014, 04:35:19 pm »
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.

This!

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Re: Two UI Convenience Suggestions
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2014, 04:55:37 pm »
Mod metadata will be in, but after 1.0

Next question? :)

Glad someone else thought about that.

No further questions, your honour.  ;D