Proper Resource Bars

Molloy · Post by **Molloy** » 27 Aug 2006, 11:14

One thing that annoys me about the current resource bars is they don't tell you to what extent you're nanostalling, like the TA ones did.

Lets say you're producing +20 metal. When you max out your building it just shows using +20. Whereas in TA it'd say wether you were attempting to build using +25 or +40 or whatever.

You could glance at this figure and think "hmm.. OK. I'm using +25 and stalling slightly so nothing to worry about really" or "I'm stalling by +40 so I'd better shutdown absolutely everything but the essentiel stuff or I'm going to be stalling for 10 minutes".

I'd also like to see a return to the TA style endgame stats. Metal/Energy produced and Metal/Energy excessed were far better ways of evaluating how good a person played than mouse clicks per minute and number of keyboard presses.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 27 Aug 2006, 11:26

moved to feature requests, and yes we need that amd it has been mentioned a dozen times, some make the patch now

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 27 Aug 2006, 11:32

Excess and production can be seen in the graphs on the third page of the statistics window.

Molloy · Post by **Molloy** » 27 Aug 2006, 11:48

Oh right, didnt realise the statistics window had a few pages. They should be on the first page then.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 27 Aug 2006, 12:14

KDR_11k wrote:Excess and production can be seen in the graphs on the third page of the statistics window.

it's not handy to browse to those graphs,

and it wouldn be hard to add another table to the endgame stats, i'm sure someone can patch that!

PRO_rANDY · Post by **PRO_rANDY** » 27 Aug 2006, 12:39

Agree, show how much metal/energy trying to be used

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 27 Aug 2006, 13:21

Could endgame stats be handled by the mod in the new gui?

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 27 Aug 2006, 19:06

The problem with the orriginal request is that in spring there is no full stalling, it basically uses just a little less then you are requesting, and that's the number you see... seeing what you could be using if you had the resources would be a vary good addition... as we keep saying... this feature will be a snap to impliment when we have the CEGUI in place and I wholeheartedly endorse it.

AF · Post by AF » 27 Aug 2006, 19:53

I dont wanna end the game to see how bad I'm nanostalling.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 02 Sep 2006, 21:16

domipheus 0 minutes Correct calculation of resource pull. prevMetalPull etc for display, metalPullAmount for accumulation.

so resource bars should work properly!

a screenshot he made:

http://www.colsoft.biz/resourcebar5.jpg

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 02 Sep 2006, 21:30

put it in the next version allready! those bars look great!

AF · Post by AF » 02 Sep 2006, 23:29

Thats a v0.8 feature.

v0.73 is feature frozen and any new features made wont be in the next release.

The only difference between the svn build of the release branch and the released version of 0.73b1 is that there'll be less bugs in the released version when it gets released.

Rafal99 · Post by **Rafal99** » 03 Sep 2006, 20:45

Fixed resource calculation was marked as BUGFIX and it already is in the release branch, so it will be in 0.73b1.

AF · Post by AF » 04 Sep 2006, 02:50

I was referring to the CEGUI resource bars which arent in 0.73b1

Rafal99 · Post by **Rafal99** » 04 Sep 2006, 09:40

So everything is clear now.

Spring RTS Engine

Proper Resource Bars

Proper Resource Bars