Creature Info on Mouseover

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The title says it all. Basically the panel shown on clicking on a creature with 
'?' but on mouseover instead. Very DK2-esque but better since it would show the 
spells and their recharge times.

There are many advantages to viewing the health bar over health petals e.g. 
when monitoring prisoners or torture chamber clients. one petal can mean good 
for another 3-4 minutes in the prison or impending skeleton conversion 
depending on the max health of the creature.

It would also allow you to be more precise and cut things as close as possible 
during battles by viewing the heal spell recharge time remaining.

I cannot imagine this interfering with any other game mechanics or becoming any 
kind of nuisance. A small delay would solve any issues that pop up when 
dropping several creatures at once, if any.

I wonder if it is not too difficult to implement.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gaschamberblues on 5 May 2014 at 9:18

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In DK2 game action is much slower, so it is easy to keep mouse over a creature. 
I'm not sure if it would be so easy in DK1.

But it is true that the panel is often unused and its content could be more 
dynamic.

Original comment by mefistotelis on 6 May 2014 at 7:54

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thats true they certainly fly around the map.

when you want a creature to stop running around you typically hold left click 
on him. maybe that kind of a trigger would be a solution.

there's also the happiness bar in the same info panel that would be invaluable 
in lots of situations.

Original comment by gaschamberblues on 6 May 2014 at 9:21