Misc Suggestions

[Cheese]

XL1979-24> they should colour the + - red and green

 

this dude has good idea

would be cool if ?iteminfo and ?shipstatus -v showed benefits in green, and hindrances in red

[Kilo]

Less trivial than you might think, sometimes - is beneficial.

[Dr Brain]

Yeah, otherwise it probably would have been done already. And rearranging the property name to always show good as positive isn't really practical either.

[Cheese]

couldnt you have an exception list for the inverted ones?

[Samapico]

Yeah... I guess it would require some kind of additional table for this. And the = properties have to be considered as well... gunlevel = 2 ... is this good? bad?

 

Edit: awesome idea: list the guns and bombs in ?buy menu with the color representing their level... lvl1: red, lvl2: yellow, lvl3: blue, lvl4: purple

I think it would be great to quickly compare bombs and stuff

[kid]

Yeah... I guess it would require some kind of additional table for this. And the = properties have to be considered as well... gunlevel = 2 ... is this good? bad?

 

Edit: awesome idea: list the guns and bombs in ?buy menu with the color representing their level... lvl1: red, lvl2: yellow, lvl3: blue, lvl4: purple

I think it would be great to quickly compare bombs and stuff

 

 

How would you denote items you can't afford?

[Kilo]

Exception list or flag or whatever = the thing we were saying would be non-trivial, obv..

[Samapico]

Yeah... I guess it would require some kind of additional table for this. And the = properties have to be considered as well... gunlevel = 2 ... is this good? bad?

 

Edit: awesome idea: list the guns and bombs in ?buy menu with the color representing their level... lvl1: red, lvl2: yellow, lvl3: blue, lvl4: purple

I think it would be great to quickly compare bombs and stuff

 

 

How would you denote items you can't afford?

emmmmmmmmmm make them green (the only unused color )

 

But yeah... good point I guess. Maybe orange for lvl1 bullets and red for unavailable, but that could be too subtle and/or confusing.

[»Purge]

Isn't there a grey color as well?

[Cheese]

the problem is the yellow and blue are offset, and the red and orange are not

menu wouldnt line up

[kid]

Suggestion: Fix elim. People lose items occasionally but do not regain their HSPoints.

[Aileron]

Take non-flaggers out of the flag reward formula. Players on pub freqs are not allowed to interfere with the flag game, so their presence should have no impact on flag reward.

 

I guess the other half of this issue is too many of the stats listed in ?iteminfo are in serverspeak and not the most relevant numbers the player needs to know. For instance, those nice little gun/bomb/armor stats on the strategy guide part of this forum. Energy and Recharge boosts should be listed by their impact on the energy bar as in '+150 NRG' or '+9 NRG/s'. Sublight drives should be have top speed in tiles/second, acceleration in tile/s^2, rotation speed in rad/s. If you have the time, more relevant stats in ?iteminfo would be a nice thing to have.

Edited June 25, 2010 by Aileron

[Cheese]

how could you ask that from the same people who cant make an ?ii shortcut for ?iteminfo

[vetta64]

I think the mystery of ?iteminfo stats creates a need for investigation which leads to the person actually learning instead of giving them the "answer" which is not even really the answer. I think the Bullet and Bomb damage stats should be pinned and updated as needed so people can understand a little about what they are buying.

[Cheese]

why are players allowed to use transwarp under antiwarp when they arent even allowed to change ships?

[Destroyer of Stars]

why are players allowed to use transwarp under antiwarp when they arent even allowed to change ships?

+1 to this.

[vetta64]

why are players allowed to use transwarp under antiwarp when they arent even allowed to change ships?

+1 to this.

 

Changing ships doesn't cost 700000

[Kilo]

Lol @ trying to justify transwarp through antiwarp.