[Kde-games-devel] Konquest development

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Divendres, 8 de novembre de 2013, a les 20:46:08, Alexander Schuch va 
escriure:
> Hello,
> 
> Konquest right now shows each message regarding a player's planet as a
> message box. This is very annoying as it even includes supply fleet
> arrivals. With standing orders and a few planets. there are many
> messages per turn to be "acknowledged" - see
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298274 as well.
> 
> All these messages are logged in the status window area as well.
> 
> So what do you think? Should the message box simple be removed as this
> information is available in the message log already, or should I
> implement (I believe) KNotification, so that the user can configure
> whether or not to show those messages as well and, more important,
> how: as message box or as notification. Or should Konquest itself show
> some kind of turn summary - suggestions?

Not a huge Konquest player myself, but i think a turn summary makes sense. 
About KNotification i don't think it makes sense to do all the work needed for 
that.

> 
> The second thing I like to get opinions about is keyboard playing.
> 
> Konquest can be played via keyboard only. The usual flow is to simply
> select a source planet (type "A" for planet A), select a destination
> planet (type "C" for planet C). The focus jumps to the fleet size
> input box. It now is possible to use Alt+O to toggle "standing orders"
> and to enter a fleet size and accept. This can be repeated as much as
> required, and the turn finally ended by Alt+E.
> 
> For information about any planet, "?A" (for planet A") will do the trick.
> 
> As outlined in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162014, it is
> hardly possible to play with more than 26 planets, due to the lack of
> easily to reach characters on the keyboard.
> 
> My idea is to introduce a command line with following options:
> 
> - "A3B" - send 3 ships from planet A to planet B
> - "C+3D" - add 3 ships as standing order from C to D
> - "?F" - show information about planet F
> 
> The advantage of this is that planet names can be longer then: "A-Z"
> and "AA-ZZ", so even a very big universe can be played with keyboard
> only.
> 
> What do you think?

I don't think we should show a command line by default, it's ok if you want to 
make it optional for expert players, but i think "normal" people would get 
confused by a command line they have no indication on what to use for.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Regards,
> Alexander
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