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KirkMcDonald / kirkmcdonald.github.io

Simple web-based calculator for the game Factorio.
Apache License 2.0
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improvement textual; 'beacons' to 'modules in beacons' #165

Open cablegunmaster opened 4 years ago

cablegunmaster commented 4 years ago

Just a small simple improvement.

When you select the amount of beacons, it assumes the amount of beacons. Beacons have 2 modules in them, so you fill in 12 beacons, assuming 24 modules. Actually it requires to fill in 24 instead. I think that field should be called "Modules in Beacon" and its fixed. Either with a tooltip (when hovering) adding title="Modules in beacon" or just changing the text.

KirkMcDonald commented 4 years ago

This has consistently been one of the major points of confusion with the calculator. Describing the behavior in the FAQ and the tooltip hasn't eliminated it.

The solution I've had in mind for some time has been to change the UI so that the "beacons" column has two module selection boxes with one multiplier (representing the number of beacons), plus a slight change in the background color for that column to offset it from the factory's own module selectors. This would put the calculator's UI more in line with the game's, and would hopefully reduce user confusion.

Merely changing the text is a simpler change, which might be worth doing as a stopgap. I would probably prefer "beacon modules", as if the headers are too wide it can do weird things to the alignment of things.