Town Centre Tooltips

[Aquohn]

OK, got back to alpha testing after being sidetracked by, um, other concerns.

I see the UI has been tidied up, but the Town Centre Tooltips still display the global resource information, which is altogether rather useless right now.

Instead, I suggest that each town centre show relevant local information, e.g. what buildings are in the town, how much of each processed resource is available there, and so forth.

[Cinth]

See the bottom note from Chris about this.

http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=11489&nbn=4#bugnotes.

The point: you can see the resources of the faction you're not playing at the moment.

Showing lots of extraneous tooltip info about units produced and other rollups sounds like gilding the lily to me, as that info is all right in front of you on the town in the main. I can't imagine trying to micro the game to that level anyhow, especially with woes now in the mix.

Possibly those are things to consider in the future, but the general "help me micromanage this" type of feature addition is something that I think is a post-1.0-if-this-takes-off sort of thing. It's only useful at very expert levels of play, for the most part.

Not all rollups or stats fall under that, remotely, of course. Things like unit kills or end of turn reports on what happened and was produced are pretty key things I want to do before 1.0. But there's a line there somewhere where it goes from "moderate grognard" to "counting the fingers on my dwarf." I'm not saying I don't want to cross that line, but I don't want to cross it prior to 1.0 -- even if I had more time, I think that level of detail would be pretty scary to the midcore and the semi-grognard.