change requests for future patches (quickish ones)

[sabrewolf]

i have not seen a thread regarding change requests so far at apolyton so i'll dare to open this thread for the purpose of change requests. if it is truly a new topic, please TOP this thread

to not have too many change requests here, please focus ONLY on smallish changes. nothing like "i want religions to be scrapped completely" and no discussions like "creative is overpowered". i intend this to be mainly an improvement of handling and the user interface.

please also note that bugs belong in the bug-thread

[sabrewolf]

and i'll make the start:

we all know the F6 screen is pretty f'ed up. maybe not all bugs but intentional, but what we've seen so far:

a) other F1-F12 shortcuts do not work
b) escape doesn't exit the screen
c) it is not centred unlike other advisor screens
d) right-clicking for civilopedia exits back to the game and selects the thing you right-clicked

and improvement requests: it would be nice to see by different colours:
- which techs are immediately researchable
- (optionally) which techs are researchable with 1 extra tech
also:

last:
sid's tips are nice, but mostly the exact same thing as is written in the description just lines above... maybe something like "civil service is a crucial tech that opens up many other branches" would be more helpful.

[sabrewolf]

i also quite like to see the number pad keyboard shortcuts "extended" because notebooks do not have number pads but instead the normal arrows and pgup pgdown, etc.

as those key are used for cycling through cities etc, could we have the

SHIFT-UP equals to number pad 8
SHIFT-DOWN equals to number pad 2
SHIFT-LEFT equals to number pad 4
SHIFT-RIGHT equals to number pad 6

SHIFT-Home equals to number pad 7
SHIFT-End equals to number pad 1
SHIFT-PageUp equals to number pad 9
SHIFT-PageDown equals to number pad 3

of course CTRL or ALT instead of shift is also fine by me.

this would not conflict with other shortcuts and allow notebook using players to use the keyboard.

also, the combat odds could be shown while holding the CRTL key (or whatever) and moving the direction keys onto the enemy unit. if you want to attack, let go of CTRL (like letting go of the right mouse button), if not, just "steer" back to the starting field... or similar

[cni_crazylegs]

1) Custom Maps in Hot Seat Play !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please Please Please

Thanx

[Tuberski]

I think this thread will work for what you want.....

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=141743

ACK!

[sabrewolf]

thanks for that link... i transferred my stuff

[Nikolai]

Some good ideas you have there sabre. Only bad for you that yin beat you to posting the topic.