Post by: AndonSage on April 10, 2010, 04:01:03 AM
Post by: Hyfrydle on April 10, 2010, 02:54:24 PM
Post by: AndonSage on April 10, 2010, 04:19:57 PM
For the following lines:
- Show Next Order: Toggles whether or not a Fleet's next orders are shown next to it's name.
- Show Order Time and Distance: Toggles whether or not a Fleet's distance to target and estimated time to arrival is shown next to it's name. This information is only shown if "Show Next Order" is toggled on.
- Show Fleet/Contact Headings: Toggle whether or not a Fleet's or Contact's travel heading are shown next to it's name.
Should I use the term "Fleet" or "Task Group." While those two terms are used interchangeably, I don't want confusion with a "Task Fleet."
For the following line:
- Show Events: Toggles whether or not race events are displayed at the bottom of the System Map screen.
I'd like an explanation of "race events." I wasn't able to find any posts on exactly which events are "race events."
Post by: sloanjh on April 10, 2010, 06:13:44 PM
Quote from: "AndonSage"
I have a couple questions for the Display tab section, I was hoping someone could answer. They aren't highlighted above, so I'll put the questions here:TG is a much better term. "Fleet" is a hold-over from the very early days, and is likely to evolve into a higher formation (i.e. what's called Task Force now or even something above that).
For the following lines:
- Show Next Order: Toggles whether or not a Fleet's next orders are shown next to it's name.
- Show Order Time and Distance: Toggles whether or not a Fleet's distance to target and estimated time to arrival is shown next to it's name. This information is only shown if "Show Next Order" is toggled on.
- Show Fleet/Contact Headings: Toggle whether or not a Fleet's or Contact's travel heading are shown next to it's name.
Should I use the term "Fleet" or "Task Group." While those two terms are used interchangeably, I don't want confusion with a "Task Fleet."
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For the following line:
- Show Events: Toggles whether or not race events are displayed at the bottom of the System Map screen.
I'd like an explanation of "race events." I wasn't able to find any posts on exactly which events are "race events."
This should probably read "empire events". In the early days, empires could only have a single race (in programming terms, the empire and the race were jumbled together in the same object). At some point Steve decoupled races from empires - an empire can have populations of different races, and the same race can form a population in different empires. Events are specific to empires, not to races.
John
Post by: AndonSage on April 12, 2010, 12:21:48 AM
Quote from: "sloanjh"
TG is a much better term. "Fleet" is a hold-over from the very early days, and is likely to evolve into a higher formation (i.e. what's called Task Force now or even something above that).That's what I figured. I wonder if Steve should change "Fleet" references to "Task Group" then? Think I should put this in the suggestions thread?
Quote from: "sloanjh"
This should probably read "empire events".So noted. However, what I was referring to are the specific events, or class of events, that get displayed. For example, a Mineral Survey will not be displayed, but a Commander getting experience will be displayed. Any idea if there is a list of the events (or class of event) that will be displayed?
Post by: Hawkeye on April 12, 2010, 10:00:18 AM
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This should probably read "empire events". So noted. However, what I was referring to are the specific events, or class of events, that get displayed. For example, a Mineral Survey will not be displayed, but a Commander getting experience will be displayed. Any idea if there is a list of the events (or class of event) that will be displayed?
Hm, Mineral Survey Events _should_ be displayed, except if you have deselected them.
Open the event window, click on "Filter Events". There is your list of all types of events. You can select/deselect them by double-clicking on them. Any event marked red, will not be displayed. Clicking again on "Filter Events" returns you to the regular event window.
Post by: AndonSage on April 13, 2010, 04:36:17 AM
Quote from: "Hawkeye"
Hm, Mineral Survey Events _should_ be displayed, except if you have deselected them.I had never even clicked on Filter Events, so couldn't have deselected any
Open the event window, click on "Filter Events". There is your list of all types of events. You can select/deselect them by double-clicking on them. Any event marked red, will not be displayed. Clicking again on "Filter Events" returns you to the regular event window.
But I went ahead and brought up the Filter, and nothing was in red. I checked the specific event, Minerals Located, and it's listed on the Filter in black.I wonder if it's somehow associated with changing the background color of the Minerals Located event? That's the only thing I had changed. I'll do some more testing, see if I can pinpoint the problem. Thanks for the info.
Post by: AndonSage on April 13, 2010, 06:18:42 AM
In the Detail tab, Objects box, I can't see the Colonies checkbox doing anything, whether it's checked or not. Am I missing something?
I've also started entering the information into the wiki. Here's the link in case anyone is interested in taking a look.
http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=System_Map_-_Complete_Reference