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#1 Re: Website Utilities » S/C Design Page » 2018-11-15 13:03:38

Now that I'm looking at this on my PC, it really looks good!

Here are some things that I had on my design spreadsheet that I think should be on this page:
- Jump range (based on lowest HEN TL - but, since you broke out max mass based on highest TL, that would be good to include as well)
- I had a Crew Stats section with excess/shortage of PRO, SLD(MRB), USK(AUT)
- Speaking of sections, I had calculated totals in groups for easy assessment like "Fuel Use", "Crew Status", "Crew needs", etc.  There will inevitably be a good amount of information generated here, so it would be a kindness to the user to break it up into logical sections.
- Combat factors ground and space
- Transport capacity for combat, TFR, and LOAD
- Along with Current Speed, I had "Loaded Speed", mostly for designing cargo and colonizing ships
- Of course, the ability to save the class once designed is important, but I'm sure that's where you were going anyways

Less important:
- Along with total mass, I had the mass number (the log() of the mass)
- I had a scratch-pad type area where I'd calculate FCT prod in a colony and compare that to the manufactured items in the ship to see how many of a class I could make per turn or year
- Aligning the objects on the page and maybe some borders to spruce it up for show

OK, the constantly spinning atom is making me dizzy!  Guess I shouldn't stare at it! smile

Excellent!  You don't let someone add a unit with a stupid count like e34598745!

Probably should disallow the E notation in the TL boxes.  I just added 100 ESH-2E4.  Maybe set an upper limit to match the limit for the game?

Right-justifying the numbers would help readability.

Regarding population and races, if the game continues to use different race numbers for population, I think it would be good to allow the user to NOT specify the race number, unless he really wants to.  Perhaps allow the user to specify a preference, but when the order is executed, the game should pull from whatever races are available in the S/C.

For deleting an item, I see that setting the item and TL, then setting the number to 0 makes the entry go away.  How hard would it be to add an "X" next to each line that would delete the line when clicked?

...and if that works, just clicking on the number you want to change and either changing it there or having the selection populate the edit boxes would be nice.

OK, that's enough.  I'm going to shut up before you vote me off the island!

#2 Re: Website Utilities » S/C Design Page » 2018-11-14 13:29:21

Beautiful start!  It's not mobile friendly, but I was still able to use it from my phone.  It does need some more details, like not allowing TL for fuel. I'll add more when I get a few minutes. It's a busy time of year!

However, it's a great start and I like the way your thinking

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