#13 If orders are illegal, no warning

[Corey Burger]

Select any of probes, carriers or exterminators
(colonizers crash)
Drag to another planet
Observe lack of order given

[Corey Burger]

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Some investigation reveals that you need to send 5 probes at
once. However, it is not clear when orders are illegal,
because no warning is given.

[Keith Turner]

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I thought doing nothing when the user did something illegal
was OK. Do you think this confuses the user and that an
error needs to be displayed?

I do not understand your second comment, when do you need to
send 5 probes?

[Corey Burger]

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Sorry, further investigation reveals this to be a
requirement of 2 probes as once.

As for the feedback, yes, a program needs to give feedback
if an order is illegal. One way to do this might be a status
message. Popups are bad because they focus focus changes on
the user.

[Keith Turner]

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I was thinking about this. Popups are bad like you said, I definetly do not want to add more clicking to the
game. A nice red error message displaying on the screen and eventually fading away might do the trick.

I am going to change this to a feature request.