Post by spike on Mar 24, 2011 11:00:41 GMT -5
Here's some minor UI information requests
1. You detailed in this post
startradersrpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=rules&thread=148&page=1 (Reply#8)
that there are a bunch of different economy types on an Urban Zone. There are sometimes hints of this in the Urban Zone description but it's far from obvious. Could you explicitly add the economy type (Industrial, Military, Agricultural, etc) somewhere? E.g. it could go in the box that has the Security level, Palace level, etc. Or it could be displayed at the top of the Market screen. This information is quite important for Merchants and there is currently no way to get this information at all, as far as I know.
2. It's actually very hard to find your current grid position while in the Urban Zone. This complicates figuring out viable courses for acting on Rumours, Contracts, etc, unless you have a map on hand - not great for a game played on a mobile phone. Your only option apart from physically moving your ship into space is to go to Status - Galaxy - Map, which more or less starts a different mini app. So it would be nice if your grid position appears somewhere on one of the Urban screens, like it does on the Planet Orbit screen where you can decide to go to Urban, Wild, Blockade, etc.
1. You detailed in this post
startradersrpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=rules&thread=148&page=1 (Reply#8)
that there are a bunch of different economy types on an Urban Zone. There are sometimes hints of this in the Urban Zone description but it's far from obvious. Could you explicitly add the economy type (Industrial, Military, Agricultural, etc) somewhere? E.g. it could go in the box that has the Security level, Palace level, etc. Or it could be displayed at the top of the Market screen. This information is quite important for Merchants and there is currently no way to get this information at all, as far as I know.
2. It's actually very hard to find your current grid position while in the Urban Zone. This complicates figuring out viable courses for acting on Rumours, Contracts, etc, unless you have a map on hand - not great for a game played on a mobile phone. Your only option apart from physically moving your ship into space is to go to Status - Galaxy - Map, which more or less starts a different mini app. So it would be nice if your grid position appears somewhere on one of the Urban screens, like it does on the Planet Orbit screen where you can decide to go to Urban, Wild, Blockade, etc.