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Author Topic: Simplify intel tag order  (Read 701 times)

Histidine

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Simplify intel tag order
« on: June 16, 2022, 06:15:48 AM »

Current order of tags in the intel screen:
- New
- Important
- An arbitrary and impossible-to-remember sequence of tags, defined in tag_data.json
- Everything else, in alphabetical order

This makes finding some things take way longer than it should.

My suggestion is two-fold. First, what it should look like:
- New
- Important
- maybe Accepted, Local and/or Story
- Everything else in alphabetical order

Then, to keep things findable, perhaps some key tags (such as Colony threats and Story) could have highlight colors. Although it leads to colors in seemingly random places, so I'm not too sure about this (maybe only the box rather than the text should be colored).

Test with a lightly modded game
Current:


Alphabetical order, some light coloring:

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Drazan

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Re: Simplify intel tag order
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2022, 06:21:29 AM »

Absolutely supporting this. Navigating tha intel screen is a nightmare.
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Thaago

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Re: Simplify intel tag order
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2022, 10:45:01 AM »

This would be very very welcome!
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Re: Simplify intel tag order
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2022, 05:58:11 AM »

The most irritating part of using the intel screen is (imo) the tags keep moving around, so it sometimes takes a while to find what I'm looking for.

Alphabetising and/or highlighting the important ones would go a long way to making it easier to use if the tags can't be locked in place.
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Re: Simplify intel tag order
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2022, 06:36:30 AM »

Big fan of this, especially the use of colors for the tags, which helps an absolute ton, even to find default-colored tags if you just know it should be about halfway between colony-threat-red and story-green.
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Re: Simplify intel tag order
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2022, 02:53:50 AM »

dont know if its possible but, it would be cool if you could drag the tabs so you could put them in an order that is comfortable for every player. aka every player could personalize it.

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Re: Simplify intel tag order
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2022, 04:53:08 AM »

Looks nice
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