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Firov -> RE: Zoom Upgrade (3/14/2014 4:08:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sunburn
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ORIGINAL: Firov
One of the interface improvements I would suggest, beyond the zoom enhancements, is the implementation of a more traditional right click context menu for orders. For example, selecting a ship and then right clicking some area of the sea might bring up a small context menu that allows you to plot a course there, or do a bearing only attack, and so on.
We already do that (unless I have misunderstood your request). Right-clicking a friendly unit brings up the context menu with various command available.
Sort of. You can bring up a context menu listing all possible orders available to that unit by clicking on it, but in this case I'm talking about a more streamlined order system where you select the friendly units, but right click elsewhere to bring up a specific order context menu there.
As a really simple example, lets say I have a destroyer. If I want that destroyer to sail somewhere I currently right click on on the destroyer, which brings up the entire list of orders that unit is capable of responding to. In this case, I then select plot course, which brings up the plot course utility. I then left click where I want that ship to sail to.
However, instead, imagine that I could left click the destroyer to select it, and then right click on the ocean where I want it to sail to. This then brings up a condensed context menu that would only show orders that ship could perform to an empty area of water. Things like plot course, or bearing only attack. In this case, I'd select plot course and that would be it. A course would automatically be plotted to the spot I right clicked on originally.
This would also work for other types of commands. For example. If I wanted that hypothetical destroyer to attack an enemy ship that was near by I would right click on the enemy destroyer rather than the empty ocean, as in the above example. This would then bring up any orders that destroyer could perform to an enemy naval unit. Such as auto attack, or manual attack, or bearing only attack, and so on.
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ORIGINAL: Sunburn
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ORIGINAL: Firov
Also, this would help deal with the problem of trying to order multiple friendly units that are right on top of one another. You can left click through all of them, but as soon as you right click on them to issue an order it resets the selected unit to the "top" unit. A traditional right click context menu would fix that.
You can also bring up the context menu by pressing the context-menu key (the one to the right of the rightmost Windows key, in most keyboards). This allows you to issue a command to multiple units, if applicable.
Hmm. I'll give that a shot. Thanks.
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