Some minor UI gripes

[Daynarr]

Number 0 works too.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
You can zoom to a province with the keyboard by typing # and then the province's number. The province numbers are in parentheses next to their names both on the map itself and in the Nation Overview screen.

That's 3-5 key-presses for every single province you want to visit - that gets annoying real fast. You have to either remember the province numbers (which doesn't work for PBeM games which you'll only play a few turns of every week - intermixed with other Dominions 2 games.) or you have to open the nation overview to look them up, adding a minimum of two more key-presses (and a context-switch) - not to mention that you can't even scroll through all the provinces in the nation overview with the keyboard at the moment.

In UI design stuff like an extra keypress or context-switch matters a great deal.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by LordArioch:
The esc key really doesnt cause that much trouble, although I would like my right click too, and being able to directly Fx between say, magic research and gem income would be nice too. I often forget it doesnt work and try it anyway.

I really don't want to see the "right-click to close window" reinstated. One of my main annoyances with the Dominions 1 interface was the "right-click to get info only to be a single pixel off and close the window instead" phenomena.

[ October 31, 2003, 08:33: Message edited by: Leif_- ]

[licker]

Originally posted by Leif_-:

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Originally posted by LordArioch:
The esc key really doesnt cause that much trouble, although I would like my right click too, and being able to directly Fx between say, magic research and gem income would be nice too. I often forget it doesnt work and try it anyway.

I really don't want to see the "right-click to close window" reinstated. One of my main annoyances with the Dominions 1 interface was the "right-click to get info only to be a single pixel off and close the window instead" phenomena.

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Heh, and one of my main annoyances was trying to close the window, being a few pixels off and opening the info panel....

To each their own eh?

[PhilD]

Another one I've noticed is that if you have a group of commanders selected, and attempt a 2-Province move, it is possible that some, but not all, will be able to move that far. The problem is, the others stay put, and there is no clear visual cue of this (I assume they have "Defend" as their order, but they should deselect, or something, so you can notice this).

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by PhilD:
Another one I've noticed is that if you have a group of commanders selected, and attempt a 2-Province move, it is possible that some, but not all, will be able to move that far. The problem is, the others stay put, and there is no clear visual cue of this (I assume they have "Defend" as their order, but they should deselect, or something, so you can notice this).

If their highlight turned red instead of white when ordered to do something illegal, that would be a helpful clue.

[ October 31, 2003, 20:10: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]