World Interface Changes
- Did more color improvements to targets pane, to help distinguish varying kinds of information.
- Consolidated these zone stats to targets pane: cover, concealment, ambient mana, terrain type and difficulty, and searched status.
- Consolidated these player stats to target pane: mana, mana regen, stamina, force field, alteration, and evasion (most stats also included for now for NPCs and monsters).
- Reorganized left and right information panes to fill in the newly-available space.
- Resized the modal action dialogs.
Scouting Update
Previously, actions would accumulate disturbance, which decayed slowly and stuck with characters wherever they went. I’m now trying a flatter system, where each action provides disturbance for a single turn.
So, you can be spotted one turn, and if you do something less obvious, you can hide (as can NPCs/monsters).
Note that disturbance (and detection) can physical or magical.
Equipment and Path Dialogs
I changed the equipment and path dialogs to use the new inline action pane layout. This means all possible actions are visible at-a-glance, instead of requiring a lot of clicking to reveal.
I still need to do more color work, and probably more fundamental rework, but I’m liking how it’s looking so far.
Screenshot of the new path dialog (the path content is experimental and will likely change):
Other Changes
- Low-level improvements and bugfixes.
- Reduced searching to a single skill/difficulty gate. The previous system was more generic, and not tuned to the current magitech theme.
- Actions like searching, harvesting, fabrication, construction, and research now provide experience to used skills and faction prestige. For now, that’s a one-for-one transaction based on progress contributed (even if due to merging, there’s more total progress than required).
- Harvests now show progress in action button.