Suggestions on how to improve the mod

[AncientSion]

I mentioned that some weeks ago already.
One way to partly fix it would be to increase the height of the list Container, so that it Displays 15 items instead of like..10 ?
Or Keep it at the same height, but decrease the font size.

[Meridian]

Font is 9 pixels high... how do you want to make it smaller?

[Mattdo]

By making it 8 pixels high?

I'd rather see:
A filter that allows me to switch off all things I can't currently manufacture due to lack of materials.
A filter that allows me to switch on things I can't currently manufacture due to lack of base facilities. (To let you know what you're lacking.)
An 'alphabetical sort' option.
A 'do not show' list, for obsolete weapons I'm never going to make.

Obviously, some of these would be quite difficult to do...

[Meridian]

By making it 8 pixels high?

That's a bad suggestion and also a bad joke.
I really don't understand what did you want to say by this...

I'd rather see:
A filter that allows me to switch off all things I can't currently manufacture due to lack of materials.
A filter that allows me to switch on things I can't currently manufacture due to lack of base facilities. (To let you know what you're lacking.)
An 'alphabetical sort' option.
A 'do not show' list, for obsolete weapons I'm never going to make.

Obviously, some of these would be quite difficult to do...

That's more like it.
I'll implement some (if not all) in the near future.

[R1dO]

That's a bad suggestion and also a bad joke.

And it is not even valid math.
10*9/15 gives 6px letters

[Mattdo]

6 pixel font?
https://www.dafont.com/6px.font
 

[Bartojan]

6 pixel font?
https://www.dafont.com/6px.font
 

And how about non-english letters?
Ň á ů ú Ž ž …

[Dioxine]

Let's drop this whole "make smaller font" idiocy, OK? This is getting real stupid real fast.

[a0kribu]

And how about non-english letters?
Ň á ů ú Ž ž …

ˇ

I'd love to see õäöü.
If we'd get there I'd do Estonian translation.

[Stian]

ˇ

I'd love to see õäöü.
If we'd get there I'd do Estonian translation.

Better get started then.

[yrizoud]

a0kribu, all these letters are already present and usable for a translation.
If you want to double-check the characters you'll need, the game fonts are :



The argument is that such letters are already barely legible in the smallest font, so reducing this font's size is completely out of question.

(edit: I hot-linked the image from the main source repository, so the images will update when new characters are added. Future-proof post )

[a0kribu]

Future-proof post )

You get double points for this.

Better get started then.

I guess I will.

[yrizoud]

I guess I will.

Note that even if you want to modify the file "et.yml" directly in order to check the results in-game (it's very handy to ensure that words are not too long), the actual way to contribute your translations is through Transifex https://www.transifex.com/openxcom/openxcom/
It may look less user-friendly, but it means you don't have to do everything alone (or from scratch). Some Estonian translations are already there. Add the missing things little by little : Even if you have to stop before it's completed, the next person who looks into it will already start from your work.

[khade]

Is it possible to make it so it when you research slaves, it doesn't remove them? It seems wrong and generally beyond the pirate morality, as much as they have at least.  Even if they may decide to buy demonic energy with said slaves, they seem too pragmatic to just test a slave to destruction.

[Dioxine]

Did it occur to you that they set them free? But it's impossible to set destruction on only some items - either all or nothing.