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Mech Selection UI: Rearrange displayed enhancement list for readability #102

Open TheFifthHorseman opened 7 years ago

TheFifthHorseman commented 7 years ago

Note: This issue is distinct from Issue #103 and Issue #200.

The huge amount of tiny enhancements provided by the Skill Tree make it difficult to determine which properties the mech's Skill Tree build has been specced to.

Proposal: Sort it in order of importance:

  1. Inherent chassis quirks (might also benefit from additional visual indicator identifying them as inherent - an icon or colored stripe next to the text or different text color, perhaps)
  2. Skill tree upgrades that affect the mech, in order of highest upgrade level to the lowest, defining upgrade level as ratio of purchased nodes of this type divided by total nodes available for it, eg purchasing one of four Laser Duration nodes would count as 0.25 upgrade level, whereas purchasing the only Advanced Zoom node would count as 1.0 upgrade level
    1. Skill tree upgrades that do not affect the mech, in order of highest upgrade level to the lowest

Example for Catapult K2 (skill tree: https://kitlaan.gitlab.io/mwoskill/?p=db104e42-3fc7-11e7-ae4c-5b0359624003 ) (the example does not include a case for no 3, but if it did then that item would appear last in the list): k2skillsnow k2skillssorted

See also: Issue #101, Issue #103, Issue #200

tauSentry commented 7 years ago

Administrivia...
Can you include screenshots to help distinguish this issue from Issue #103.
At first glance they seemed like duplicate issues.

TheFifthHorseman commented 7 years ago

The sorting needed for clarity in the Skill Tree UI (which includes changes in skill point allocation) differs from that needed in the Mech Selection UI (which includes quirks). I will prepare some illustrations to show the current state and proposed changes in both, it will be clearer then.