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Nearby ships in HUD
A list of the top X nearest ships displayed in the HUD. SHIFT-(number) can target a ship in the list.
a la warcraft: orcs vs. humans?
Where in the HUD?
Top 5 would make sense, then halve the area reserved for mission chat (a vertical cut, so you get a left and a right part), and put it there.
I'm against it, though. It wasn't needed thus far, and I think the available space could be used for more important things, like the display of mission objectives (once we get more important missions), or, even more interestingly, a small navmap for quick navroute plotting (9 sectors, with the current one in the middle, or 6, respectively, if you're on the border of the system map). Especially the latter would be important in my opinion.
Top 5 would make sense, then halve the area reserved for mission chat (a vertical cut, so you get a left and a right part), and put it there.
I'm against it, though. It wasn't needed thus far, and I think the available space could be used for more important things, like the display of mission objectives (once we get more important missions), or, even more interestingly, a small navmap for quick navroute plotting (9 sectors, with the current one in the middle, or 6, respectively, if you're on the border of the system map). Especially the latter would be important in my opinion.
tosh, you threadstealer! :P Make your own suggestion.
As per the original suggestion, and toshiros most excellent space point, I think it'd be cool if some HUD elements were mutually exclusive.
jack wants a list of the closest ship, drdorak wants a small green face that says "STOP POKING ME" every five minutes, thoshiro wants a Navmap Light, and I want something that displays the actual value and purchase place of my cargo.
There's obviously not room for it all, so why not make a bunch of little widget and have a "widget space" in the HUD? Maybe even let it load widget.lua from the Vendetta dir for some Custom Action?
Anyway, I like the suggestion, and I definatly want it in there.
As per the original suggestion, and toshiros most excellent space point, I think it'd be cool if some HUD elements were mutually exclusive.
jack wants a list of the closest ship, drdorak wants a small green face that says "STOP POKING ME" every five minutes, thoshiro wants a Navmap Light, and I want something that displays the actual value and purchase place of my cargo.
There's obviously not room for it all, so why not make a bunch of little widget and have a "widget space" in the HUD? Maybe even let it load widget.lua from the Vendetta dir for some Custom Action?
Anyway, I like the suggestion, and I definatly want it in there.
Very good point, Demonen. Perhaps, to make it easy for lazy slugs like me, provide a few default widgets, and let people add their own (within guidelines) if they absolutely want to.
Maybe a tabbed area for the messages at the top, could cycle through a whole bunch of info.
Right bottom corner