Post by grävling on Jul 21, 2013 6:49:28 GMT -5
What we have now is 'show me the map of this zone' and it is a pretty poor map since it doesn't have the names of the places marked at their
locations. I completely loath this 'click on the name and have a marker show up where it is, which goes away when you click on another one'.
I'd scrap the whole thing. I like the idea of a map, though, I think if you added the names of the ports and who runs them, or, in a pinch
have a legend on the right hand side and label the map 1 2 3 4 5 -- this would be great. Showing Your Commissions on the map would be brilliant.
However, the map of the world is not what I want when I want to plot my course.
Instead:
I want the destinations of my Commissions to show up so I can plot them all from there, with stops to restock food if needed. Ideally allowing a multi-hop plot, though I understand if this is not possible.
I want a way to say: show me all my Commission destinations, sorted by distance from me.
I want a way to say: show me all my Commission destinations, sorted by expiration date.
And I want these summaries to take up one line of text. I don't want to read all the flavour text.
I want: destination coordinates, when expires, who against, to do what, what I will get paid, and closest friendly port to here with coordinates (which might be on another map). The rest is all fluff that makes it harder to notice that you had better get your tail over to such and such before the Commission expires.
locations. I completely loath this 'click on the name and have a marker show up where it is, which goes away when you click on another one'.
I'd scrap the whole thing. I like the idea of a map, though, I think if you added the names of the ports and who runs them, or, in a pinch
have a legend on the right hand side and label the map 1 2 3 4 5 -- this would be great. Showing Your Commissions on the map would be brilliant.
However, the map of the world is not what I want when I want to plot my course.
Instead:
I want the destinations of my Commissions to show up so I can plot them all from there, with stops to restock food if needed. Ideally allowing a multi-hop plot, though I understand if this is not possible.
I want a way to say: show me all my Commission destinations, sorted by distance from me.
I want a way to say: show me all my Commission destinations, sorted by expiration date.
And I want these summaries to take up one line of text. I don't want to read all the flavour text.
I want: destination coordinates, when expires, who against, to do what, what I will get paid, and closest friendly port to here with coordinates (which might be on another map). The rest is all fluff that makes it harder to notice that you had better get your tail over to such and such before the Commission expires.
