Note to game designers on Air Group Management for DLC
May 25, 2021 15:27:52 GMT -6
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Post by indy on May 25, 2021 15:27:52 GMT -6
Hello. Since the game will progress through 1970 in the new DLC, aircraft management could use a couple things to make it more user friendly since aircraft will be so important. Dealing with so many aircraft on various bases in varying squadron numbers isn’t easy in the UI. Here are some simple ideas.
Place some clickable buttons on the bottom of the Air Group Management window so we can better select aircraft through progressive filters. The current tabs at the top that sort don’t always work, fix that please, and being able to remove groups using filters and sorting would make life easier.
We need filters (Read that as a button or a drop down selection check mark or whatever toggle) for Types of aircraft so if I only want to see Torpedo Bombers and nothing else I can.
Filter for type of Base the squadrons are on. So if I only want to see torpedo bombers on Naval Air Stations, I’d select those two filters and then it would only display torpedo bombers on naval air stations and exclude any torpedo bombers on carriers, reserve, or air bases.
So we would need filters for Air Bases, CV’s, CVL’s, Naval Air Stations, Reserve, All, and then filters for all the various types of aircraft, torpedo bombers, medium bombers, flying boats, dive bombers, fighters, jet fighters, jet bombers, etc.
I was just struck by how long it was taking me to manage my aircraft squadrons after 1942. I had a lot of bases and going from war to peace was taking forever as I kept fiddling with squadron numbers, base sizes, etc. It wasn’t enough to put squadrons on reserve, I had to disband them entirely due to high cost which meant recreating them later and slowly building up their numbers where they were needed as tensions rose.
I really think having working sorting tabs plus filters to select only what I want to see would make managing aircraft a lot easier and seem less of a chore. It’s not that fun to do atm. You got to really love this game to deal with all that. Yeah, this game is pretty awesome, Air Management can be as well.
Place some clickable buttons on the bottom of the Air Group Management window so we can better select aircraft through progressive filters. The current tabs at the top that sort don’t always work, fix that please, and being able to remove groups using filters and sorting would make life easier.
We need filters (Read that as a button or a drop down selection check mark or whatever toggle) for Types of aircraft so if I only want to see Torpedo Bombers and nothing else I can.
Filter for type of Base the squadrons are on. So if I only want to see torpedo bombers on Naval Air Stations, I’d select those two filters and then it would only display torpedo bombers on naval air stations and exclude any torpedo bombers on carriers, reserve, or air bases.
So we would need filters for Air Bases, CV’s, CVL’s, Naval Air Stations, Reserve, All, and then filters for all the various types of aircraft, torpedo bombers, medium bombers, flying boats, dive bombers, fighters, jet fighters, jet bombers, etc.
I was just struck by how long it was taking me to manage my aircraft squadrons after 1942. I had a lot of bases and going from war to peace was taking forever as I kept fiddling with squadron numbers, base sizes, etc. It wasn’t enough to put squadrons on reserve, I had to disband them entirely due to high cost which meant recreating them later and slowly building up their numbers where they were needed as tensions rose.
I really think having working sorting tabs plus filters to select only what I want to see would make managing aircraft a lot easier and seem less of a chore. It’s not that fun to do atm. You got to really love this game to deal with all that. Yeah, this game is pretty awesome, Air Management can be as well.
