Re: [Rails-devel] Rails 2.0 discussion: Changes to OR Window?

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

There are a number of special actions that can be executed at various
times, including taking special abilities granted by privates, like laying
a cattle token. I agree with Mike - make all of these, including buy
privates, individual buttons, only visible when available to the player to
take as an action.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:31 AM <com...@ip...> wrote:

> "buy privates" sounds like an action to me - why not group it with them,
> but have it only visible when relevant?
>
> Mike
>
>
> >-- Original Message --
> >Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:58:58 +0100
> >From: Stefan Frey <ste...@we...>
> >To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> >       <rai...@li...>,
> rai...@li...
> >Subject: [Rails-devel] Rails 2.0 discussion: Changes to OR Window?
> >Reply-To: "Development list for Rails: an 18xx game"
> >       <rai...@li...>
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >to get more feedback on the UI, I will try to make some more suggestions
> >
> >how to improve the Rails 2.0 UI.
> >
> >Those who tried the 2.0 beta already know that the buttons Confirm/Skip
>
> >have been move to the top of the upgrade panel and are always visible
> >(green circle in the attached image).
> >
> >First reason for that was to avoid scrolling down the upgrade panel to
> >finalize the tile lay.
> >
> >I realized that now one has to use the buttons at the top of the upgrade
> >
> >panel for tile/token laying, but the buttons at the bottom of the OR
> >window for later actions (payout, buy trains etc).
> >
> >My suggestion is to make UI easier is:
> >
> >A) Remove the button panel at the bottom of the OR window.
> >
> >B) Move the undo/redo buttons to the bottom of the upgrade panel (always
> >
> >visible)
> >
> >C) Move the action buttons (payout/withhold/buy train) to the top of the
> >
> >upgrade panel. This implies that the action buttons will change
> >depending on the activity.
> >
> >Open question is where to move "Buy Private". One possibility is to move
> >
> >the buy Private button to a entry of the special menu? Or a separate
> >entry of the menu? Other ideas?
> >
> >Feedback and other/further ideas are welcome.
> >
> >Stefan
> >
> >Attachment: UI_buttons_comments.png
> >
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