Show Idle Fabricators Bar

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by epicblaster117, August 20, 2015.

  1. epicblaster117

    epicblaster117 Active Member

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    We need a bar on the right of the screen that shows idle fabricators on the current planet we are looking at, a lot of times I have plenty of fabbers sitting around doing nothing mainly because I'm to lazy to use the hotkey to find them and they are kinda hard to see with their icons. Having a Supreme Commander like idle builder bar to the right would help, a lot. Anyways if it can't be done for vanilla, maybe a client side mod? Also if it was vanilla I suggest making it optional so people who don't like it don't have to see it.
  2. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    You mean like this thing in the bottom left:
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    It shows I have four idle fabbers and one idle factory. I think it may be system-wide and not planet-wide though, but I am not entirely sure as I did this screenshot on a single planet system.

    Actually, I would like to have it include the commanders as well. Idle commanders are bad commanders!
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  3. Going4Quests

    Going4Quests Active Member

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    I agree on the commanders. However, I find the current system cheap. Yes, idle. But what's idle? Please raneme to Idle units & Idle factories or something!
  4. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    The plus is fabbers, the hexagon is factories. Clicking on it shows the subdivisions into categories such as air.
    In the long run, icons work better than text I think. You get instant recognition, rather than the effort of reading text. That's why icons exist in the first place, I think. :)
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  5. Going4Quests

    Going4Quests Active Member

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    I know, but these.. I just keep them forgetting. I remember icons when they make sense, like a nuke icon for a nuke as in Supreme Commander, not when being random shapes.
  6. probodobodyne

    probodobodyne Active Member

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    As of the moment it doesn't work properly, showing allied fabs and factories as idle ones.
  7. masterdigital

    masterdigital Uber Alumni

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    We have fixed the issue locally. Hopefully we will be able to get the patch out soon.
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  8. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    Personally that bar is near useless for some simple reason:

    How can I actually go through it one by one? like "Take me to the next idle thing so I can take care of it"?

    Is that even possible?

    Another UI quirck: The idle buttons are placed directly above these "select xyz" buttons. Often when I try to click the idle buttons (just to then be reminded of that they don't help actually find idle units) I go a little too far down. This causes some popup of the buttons below that hides the idle buttons.
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  9. masterdigital

    masterdigital Uber Alumni

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    Double click and then press 't' to cycle through them? Or use the select idle fabber hotkey 'f' repeatedly. Cycling through individual units would be useful. Maybe after the Titans bugs are hammered out I'll be able to improve the UI features.
  10. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    I dunno I found that camera tracking function never very "nice to use". I don't like how it keeps following the units.
    So yeah looking forward to more SupCom style "click the idle button once to select one idle thing and move the camera on top of it with just that one click".
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  11. jables

    jables Uber Employee

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    Shooting to have fixes hit PTE tomorrow morning sometime :)
  12. ace902902

    ace902902 Active Member

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    What we really need, is a button beside the idle fabbers bar that lets you select your commander, and a double click on it that takes you too him.
  13. masterdigital

    masterdigital Uber Alumni

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    While it isn't near the the idle widgets, there is a button that does that. Click on the commander icon in the top left corner of the screen. The first button selects your commander, and the other buttons will zoom to the last known location of the commander of that color. Also double clicking the #1 control group button will do what you want.

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    Thanks.

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