A Couple of Changes

[Dave]

I've made a couple of changes to the interface:

- multi-hex attacks have been removed
- now if you click on an enemy unit who you can move and attack, it moves to the closest hex to the cursor, as originally proposed by quartex (IIRC)

I'm also considering implementing the following:

- if you select one of your units, and then click on an enemy unit that can't be attacked this turn, it will display a dialog that is much like the attack dialog, except that the dialog can only be closed instead of ok/cancel.

David

[turin]

All sound like good changes.


I think that the second option would be kind of strange, though... it would make it so if you are selecting one of your units, then want to check an enemy unit's stats, you have to get into a dialogue first. OTOH, it would be very useful..

Also, it would be useful if the attack dialogue showed enemy's ranged attacks even when you have no ranged, so that you know how much they will do on their turn.

[scott]

maybe shift-click to get a dialogue

[Dave]

I think that the second option would be kind of strange, though... it would make it so if you are selecting one of your units, then want to check an enemy unit's stats, you have to get into a dialogue first.

No you don't. As it works, and would continue to work, if you select your unit, then you only have to mouse over the enemy unit and it will display the enemy unit's stats on the right panel.

David

[quartex]

Thanks Dave! Sounds good.

[Mkgego]

I've made a couple of changes to the interface:

- multi-hex attacks have been removed

Watch Towers = ???...

[scott]

But if select the unit, I get his movement squares to light up. Also, the enemy unit's movement costs and defense are now "active" in the UR of the screen - they show up when I mouse over other terrains. The info is available elsewhere, but this is so tactically convenient it's the only method I use to access each enemy's movement and defense.

Edit: this functionality would still be available I guess, but we would have to deselect the friendly unit then select the enemy unit to get that info

[Kharn]

Can you go futher into why to remove this feature.

Ive read the FPI and i have seen what youve said about it not being used.

But its been included in user made campaigns, and other user made stuff.\
And frankly its fun to play around with.

Unless it was slowing the game down, I really didnt see the effort used to remove it being worth it. Kinda of a why not have it situation.

[ivanovic]

Holy thread resurrection...


This change is really long time ago. It was done due to a simple reason: the ai was not able to handle it proper. And multihex attacks are not this easy to handle. Sure it is somehow possible to implement it, but is it wanted? We as Devs came to the decission that this part is not worth the trouble maintaining it.

[Dave]

It seems that most non-technical people (and even many technical people) are aware of a very simple truth: the main effort in a feature isn't to implement it or remove it. The main effort is ongoing: to maintain it in light of other features being added and bugs being fixed.

The development team is not going to spend large amounts of effort maintaining features that we don't want or need. So we remove them.

David

[Kharn]

Thanks man, had a feeling it would be that, its just that i literally spent near an hour looking for reason for its removal, I just had to post. Thanks for clearing it up.