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Hoooooooar

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Ability to type names in when assigning a room!
« on: June 03, 2011, 10:49:55 pm »
Don't know if that's been suggested but that would be glorious.  especially when you have a barracks with room attached and you want to assign them (or anyone really) without going through a list of 300 to find the one person, or alphabetical order or something along those lines.  Don't know if that has been suggested before but im just dropping it in.  Thanks.
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Re: Ability to type names in when assigning a room!
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2011, 08:06:55 am »
That'd be nice. Actually, just make an list like that sortable / searchable. Theoretically, they're all using the same codebase so it wouldn't be terribly difficult Abd there are a number of other places it'd be helpful as well.
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Re: Ability to type names in when assigning a room!
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2011, 12:24:47 pm »
UI suggestions? I'll be over here on my space ship heading to my moon ranch by the anything like this gets implemented.  I (and everyone else) would love a concentrated effort by toady to increase the usability of the UI, but he doesn't seem interested.  I for one would bet something like that would greatly increase the install base of DF, and in turn help him with donations.  But first the dead shall walk the earth.  Also it seems toady is ignoring dwarf mode for a little while.  Pastures, eggs, and bees are nice, but they are unbalanced and uneeded.
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Re: Ability to type names in when assigning a room!
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2011, 07:01:15 pm »
Quote from: Hoooooooar on June 03, 2011, 10:49:55 pm
Don't know if that's been suggested but that would be glorious.  especially when you have a barracks with room attached and you want to assign them (or anyone really) without going through a list of 300 to find the one person, or alphabetical order or something along those lines.  Don't know if that has been suggested before but im just dropping it in.  Thanks.

This is a good idea. And the alphabetical order version should only require a simple sorting algorithm.
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Re: Ability to type names in when assigning a room!
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2011, 10:33:19 am »
Quote from: aepurniet on June 05, 2011, 12:24:47 pm
UI suggestions? I'll be over here on my space ship heading to my moon ranch by the anything like this gets implemented.  I (and everyone else) would love a concentrated effort by toady to increase the usability of the UI, but he doesn't seem interested.  I for one would bet something like that would greatly increase the install base of DF, and in turn help him with donations.  But first the dead shall walk the earth.  Also it seems toady is ignoring dwarf mode for a little while.  Pastures, eggs, and bees are nice, but they are unbalanced and uneeded.

Didn't you hear? Necromancers and re-vamped undead are coming in the next release! Lol

I would love to see a general rewrite/redesign of rooms. The game has progressed so far that we have 3 different types of rooms (workshops/zones/furniture). It would be nice if he would schedule a time to think about them and decide what makes sense for what DF is now rather than what DF was whenever he added each of these features.

I bet a lot of this gets looked at when he puts in Dwarf Mode Inns though.
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