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ekolis / stars-nova

Clone of the classic 4X game Stars!. Fork of original svn repo on SourceForge.
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Show more than the next level of expected results on the research screen #29

Open ekolis opened 4 years ago

ekolis commented 4 years ago

Describe what is missing Stars! would show the next level's results in green, and subsequent results in other colors. Nova only shows the next level's results.

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ekolis commented 4 years ago

One idea I had is that we could also show results that require more than one additional tech, with some sort of notation, e,g. "Phased polaron beam (L6, with L1 phased energy)" or whatever Stars! has...

marhawkman commented 4 years ago

Stars! just has 6 tech fields. (Energy, Weapons, Propulsion, Construction, Electronics, Biotechnology) Each tech field is conceptually an entire category of technology. Which is probably why it doesn't show multi-requirement techs well. Most techs either don't require multiple fields of research or have a token requirement in another field. So things that actually require two or more are the exception and not the rule. For example, most weapons don't have any tech requirement other than weapons tech. Example: Blunderbuss requires weapons 19 and nothing else. But missiles have a token propulsion requirement.

Mystery Trader tech was always weird and bat-shit with bizarre requirements. speaking of which... Well that's a separate issue.

marhawkman commented 4 years ago

proposal: the preview screen could be color coded with things that have no additional requirements in black, and grey for things that have additional requirements. I'd add mouse hover tooltips to let people know what the requirements are.