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

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

Alternatively, have a "special actions" button that displays when special
actions are possible, and have it open a menu of choices.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:20 AM Chris Shaffer <chr...@gm...>
wrote:

> 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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