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Author Topic: A bit information when you examine an item in detail.  (Read 908 times)

Aquillion

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A bit information when you examine an item in detail.
« on: January 25, 2010, 02:21:09 pm »

If you select an item and hit 'enter', you get this big full-screen information display...  which is mostly empty.

It'd be nice to put some stuff there.  So how about these?

First, the main thing I wanted to suggest:  It should show the object's place in the stockpile setup hierarchy -- in other words, which default stockpile it belongs in.  This will tell you what sort of stockpile you need more of if something is piling up in a workshop, and also help confused players figure out what it is.

Even better, of course, would be listings of what workshops can produce it, and which could utilize it.  We have some of this for ores, but more would be better.

Finally...  it would be nice to have an init option to view an item's raw entry, if it has one (maybe with another keystroke to go to a raw-viewer).  Obviously that would be off by default, but it would be very useful to people who use those anyway, and could also be used for debugging changes we make to the raws.
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