Ares

Toggle power button in the bottom UI bar

Bug #895915 reported by Chanterier on 2010-10-23

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ares	New	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

This is another of UI improvements I'd like to suggest for the eventual future development. It's great that Toggle Power is working now. However, we can either use it via hotkeys or a.. superweapon.

While I understand that modification of the right sidebar is probably problematic, there's still bottom bar which I think could handle "Toggle Power" button (and probably other functions if provided in the future). Also, yes - I realize that most of long-time YR players simply use hotkeys for everything but Toggle Power button could be another way of reminding people that "Hey! There's Toggle Power function and you haven't noticed it yet! Good, now that you've acknowledged my existence you can go to keyboard settings and set hotkeys for me!". I mean, most players don't read manuals, do they.

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RandomNutjob (randomnutjob) wrote on 2010-10-23:

Toggle power was a sweet addition to TS and FS - to have a button for this would be really useful and there is space down there [though idk how hard be to add]

This gets my vote

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WoRmINaToR (worminator) wrote on 2010-10-24:

Agreed. Vast majority of mod players don't read any manuals or documentation and unfortunately we can't change that. Only way for us to cope is with features like this.

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Renegade (renegade) wrote on 2010-10-24:

Independent from the merit of this request, it most definitely isn't Ares's job to make up for the stupidity and ignorance of the player base.
If a mod's players don't read the manual, that's the mod's author's problem, not ours.

We most certainly will not implement features based on that kind of argumentation.

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RandomNutjob (randomnutjob) wrote on 2010-10-24:

I'd not use that as a basis - I'd go with convenience and fact it would remain true to how it was before, no superweapon just a simple option like repair/sell

Anyone too lazy/stupid to read/follow manual imo shouldn't use Ares but that's neither here nor there