clarify excess vs extra candy/mons

[YesThatAllen]

I built & ran the develop branch today, it looks awesome.

I have a question about the numbers that I'm seeing next to my magikarp.

I just have enough to evolve one of my Magikarp, but I'm seeing +798

Clearly I'd like to see changes to the counting overall, as described in #174, but I don't know that the oddity here is related.

Maybe both can be addressed at the same time?

[vinnymac]

I am pretty sure 798 is correct here.

798 more candies are needed if you want all 3 magikarps, for example

798 candy + 402 candy = 1200 candy 1200 candy / 400 candy per evolution = 3 evolutions 3 evolutions === 3 magikarps

Obviously the numbers might not be straightforward as it was based off of someone elses desires for a feature, but maybe we can come up with a better way of explaining this information, this was one of the reasons I didn't want to throw extra info into the table because it isn't implicit what it means.

[Redarion]

Actually that was a mistery for me too! Thanks for the explanation! I think an easy way to do it is via tooltip on mouseover. But that's just an idea.

[YesThatAllen]

Thanks Vincent, I realized it later. Had I done the math to see that ~1200 = enough to evolve 3 gyrados, I would have figured it.

In https://github.com/vinnymac/PokeNurse/issues/101#issuecomment-280892209 I suggested moving the number of excess candy to the Evolves column. I wonder if the extra/lacking candy count should always be on the Candy column, either was a + if there are more than needed, or - if it would take more candy to evolve the number of pokemon in storage.

[hacknug]

• That means you still need +798 more candy to evolve every Magikarp in your inventory.
• As I understand from you other issue, that number should be +796, right?

EDIT: Left this tab opened earlier and I just saw all the answers.

[YesThatAllen]

In this picture, we're using +2 to indicate that I need to get 2 more weedle candy to be able to evolve all the weedles.

I think it'd be clearer to show that as a negative number in red, indicating that there is a deficiency here.

[Redarion]

maybe something like (+2) with the "(" and the tooltip as always. I like the tooltip!

[YesThatAllen]

After using the current setup for a while, I haven't found much use for +174 next to the candy count if I have too many candies, I'd rather see 37-19= +18 next to the mon count, so I knew how many I should transfer.

[Redarion]

The question is, what we want to show? How many we can evolve with that candies or how many candies are necessary to evolve that number of pokemon?

[YesThatAllen]

I can't think of a good use for knowing that it would take 174 more candies to evolve the mon's onhand. (I realize that my comment 1/2 hour ago wasn't even correct... that's a confusing number.

It's not like I can magically find 174 more Pidgey candy, and if I did, I'd have more mons.

Knowing that I can transfer 18 would be great. Bonus point for realizing that I should only transfer 17, because the act of transferring will give me 17 more candies.

[YesThatAllen]

Another example.. I think it's more useful to show that I have 3 spare magikarp here, instead of saying I need 1180 more candy.

So, +3 next to the mons in green, and no number next to candy.

When there are more candy than mons to update, moving the + over to the candy would make a lot more sense to me than the current setup, which tells me I have enough candy to evolve mon's I don't have.