Re: cNon-developer comments and reports on 7.2

[Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com>]

   Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:27:19 +0200 (MET DST)
   From: Bruno Boettcher <bboett@yoda.u-strasbg.fr>

   On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 jan.javorsek@guest.arnes.si wrote:

   > > There are a couple wrinkles that make this hard to do right in general;
   > > for instance, you can have two infantry building a base and complete it
   > > in half the time (try it).
   kool, didn't known that either....

It's a logical consequence of the construction rules, but it ought to be
documented as a player hint anyway...

   > Yes, that would sure look good. But IMO the player often wants to see
   > the situation in the whole ceel (and perhaps, to make your work harder,
   > even click on an occupant and perfrom an action on the enlarded view of
   > the cell).
   IMHO a list somewhere with other occupants of this cell would be enough, but i
   agree that i really often have to zoom/unzoom to check if i can or not take a
   unit out of a place (depending of what's left inside) or when determining
   attack order.....

The unit info area does have notations like "1 a 2 f" that tell you
about other occupants, although that's admittedly a little cryptic.
So if you just want to *see* the enlarged cell, that's one thing, but
if you want to manipulate it, might it not be better to have a
separate map window sized and magnified to show just the one cell and
its immediate neighbors?  If worked right, you could set a preference
to always have it come up, always in the same place, and always show
the current unit.

							Stan