xsansara Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 The user interface of the current game is pretty good, but I would like to suggest some changes: 1) Don't reset priorities ratings whenever I go back to set priorities. That one is so inconvenient, it feels like a bug. 2) Ladders and tiles deserve their own high level button, next to dig. Sweep, cancel, etc. could be melted down to much fewer buttons. 3) Please take out gas piping from plumbing and put it into its own category. I really don't like scrolling that much. 4) Auto-pause the game on certain events, such as stress reaction, dupe death, ... Just the most important stuff, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharlank Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 39 minutes ago, xsansara said: 3) Please take out gas piping from plumbing and put it into its own category. I really don't like scrolling that much. As far as I know, this one is coming for sure, gas piping and related should go under "ventilation", liquid piping and related "plumbing". Concerning usability, I'd like to be able to set a level of priority directly with an hotkey, like when I'm in the priority overlay, if I press a number, that number should be the priority you're setting to some tiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whispershade Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 4 hours ago, Sharlank said: As far as I know, this one is coming for sure, gas piping and related should go under "ventilation", liquid piping and related "plumbing". Concerning usability, I'd like to be able to set a level of priority directly with an hotkey, like when I'm in the priority overlay, if I press a number, that number should be the priority you're setting to some tiles. Yeah, I noticed ventilation in the build menu in the last stream they demo'ed ONI. About 4 streams ago, they actually made a big deal about how in the new update you can choose priority by hotkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buldric Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 On 7/21/2017 at 4:21 PM, xsansara said: 1) Don't reset priorities ratings whenever I go back to set priorities. That one is so inconvenient, it feels like a bug. I would be annoyed if it *didn't* do this. On 7/21/2017 at 4:21 PM, xsansara said: 2) Ladders and tiles deserve their own high level button, next to dig. That seems awfully arbitrary. It also seems like unnecessary UI clutter for the sake of a minor convenience. Besides, they already have a logical spot nested into the existing UI, and putting them somewhere else would make the UI less consistent and less intuitive. Maybe you would find this feature genuinely useful, but I think it would be an unwelcome change for the majority of players. It might be nice to be able to keybind specific buildings, but managing those would get tedious very quickly. On 7/21/2017 at 4:21 PM, xsansara said: Sweep, cancel, etc. could be melted down to much fewer buttons. Can you elaborate on this? On 7/21/2017 at 4:21 PM, xsansara said: 4) Auto-pause the game on certain events, such as stress reaction, dupe death, ... Just the most important stuff, though. That would be great for running an afk base, although it would absolutely need to be a configurable option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whispershade Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Nested hotkeys in build menus like a modern RTS is the best option in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buldric Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 I agree. I was surprised they didn't already have those. I'm not sure how that would work, though, now that they've bound the number keys to priority level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasuha Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 On 7/21/2017 at 10:21 PM, xsansara said: Don't reset priorities ratings whenever I go back to set priorities. That one is so inconvenient, it feels like a bug. The inconvenient part is mostly that you have to drag the mouse to the corner of the screen and search for appropriate button. Coming with next release, we'll be able to select the priority using a keypress so I believe it will become a non-issue. On 7/21/2017 at 10:21 PM, xsansara said: Please take out gas piping from plumbing and put it into its own category. I really don't like scrolling that much. Coming with next release too On 7/21/2017 at 10:21 PM, xsansara said: Auto-pause the game on certain events, such as stress reaction, dupe death, ... Just the most important stuff, though. I'm afraid opinions would vary a lot on what's the 'most important stuff'. Option to pause the game on selected events would be nice but should come with configuration panel where the player gets to choose which events are 'notice' level, which are 'alarm' level and which even pause the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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