Features from FCW

[psampathkumar]

I am going to play a FCW game after LT58 to check it out. I will use this issue to list features which I find interesting and I would like to implement.

[psampathkumar]

• Include warcalc in client

[psampathkumar]

Timeout for session expiring

[psampathkumar]

Confirmation before researching a tech.

[psampathkumar]

Drag to move around map

[lmoureaux]

Drag to move around map

I don't really like this one. Dragging means you need to move the move twice as much (back and forth). We can have specific support for touch gestures, they're a different thing.

[psampathkumar]

I think there should be some minimal interaction way of going around the map for people to do when thinking.. Drag isnt optimal I agree, it only helps in cases when you are looking around a smaller region. I put that here to remember to do something better but along the same vein. A few things currently in mind are, using the navigation system from OpenTTD. It is better imo. It allows to,

• Right click and move around the map. Not exactly drag, but your pointer stays in the same position and map moves when you hold rightclick.
• There is also this option to automatically pan when reaching the edges of the screen. Kind of ambivalent about this because this needs thought into how widgets are placed across the screen.

Hold right click is better imo, it adds to the concept of centering when rightclicking on a tile.

[psampathkumar]

FCW has an optional window which shows a lot of info at a national level, I think a lot of these views would be really useful to add.

Or simply this, Probably redundant to have both, but one of it would be really useful. I think we should have the first one with upkeep as an additional column, showing upkeep overlayed on top of images.

This too is probably useful.