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gogis

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Graphical UI
« on: January 14, 2013, 10:23:17 pm »

Anybody working on it or planning to make it? I just really sank many hours playing this, but interface is unbearable, seriously. It's actually harder than DF, because you have no loitering moments and constantly pushing miriads of key combos to a great frustration.
I am not asking for graphics, but merely streamlined drag'n'drop goodies cheapo style.

I recently had a huge urge for a mafia themed games, but only other game I watched was Gangsters 1 LP and it's not very convincing. Is anywhere other games with LCS depth and better interface I can derp around? Search didnt revealed much discussion on that theme.

Thank you
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Re: Graphical UI
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2013, 05:34:55 pm »

I don't have any idea of what you are talking about, the only issue I see is that it isn't AAA graphics and is instead ASCII.
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Re: Graphical UI
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2013, 07:21:09 pm »

Yeah, a tile based GUI would be purty, but I kinda like using my imagination here and there.

Re Gangsters: I have a copy.  LCS is far superior IMO.
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gogis

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Re: Graphical UI
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2013, 06:36:55 am »

I don't have any idea of what you are talking about

Well, there is huge difeerence between

drag-select all troops in squad and click on make clothes->repair clothes

and

AAD+ENTER+BD+ENTER+CD+ENTER+DD+ENTER+ED+ENTER+FD+ENTER+ENTER

And thats easiest combo so far. And you do similar stuff every 10 seconds. And I am talking about just one squad.
I ended up with my F1-F12 filled with Autohotkey macros just to bear some burden  :P

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, the only issue I see is that it isn't AAA graphics and is instead ASCII.

This comment usually ends up with 'you should watch Transformers instead' on IMDB. Cheap.
I never issued ASCII graphics, I merely asked if somebody ever wanted to replace curses with windows GUI.
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Re: Graphical UI
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2013, 06:41:02 am »

Yeah, a tile based GUI would be purty, but I kinda like using my imagination here and there.

Re Gangsters: I have a copy.  LCS is far superior IMO.

Yeah I disliked feeling and depth of Gangsters after watching full LP form some guy on youtube, on the other hand I played LCS for like 14 straight hours yesterday.
I dont think this needs tile graphics, I am talking about Aurora type interface using all screen for information and all drag-n-drop goodies coming with package.
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