Improving item selection and troop management
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:51 am
All in all, the whole squad select process is *very* clunky at the moment. I basically check every detail on every soldier before going on a mission. You ususally have to juggle armor, weapons, utility items and upgrades so much that it might actually be less time consuming to start with a completely blank slate every time (exaggerating a little bit here, of course - but not all that much!). Once you've ever pressed a "remove all" button, you have to become paranoid about equipment, or else, sooner or later, you'll find your best ranger bringing a standard rifle to a hard mission through oversight, or your best grenadier carrying regular grenades instead of plasma ones.
So I guess there's still room for improvement, even though there probably is only so much you can do as a modder on the less than ideal basis of the original game.
Two first ideas:
- Adding a "lock" button for each item slot to keep it from ever being emptied automatically.
- Adding "set default equipment" and "restore default equipment" buttons for each soldier, making the game try to auto-fill as much of your preferred choices as possible and maybe marking slots in red that couldn't be filled.
So I guess there's still room for improvement, even though there probably is only so much you can do as a modder on the less than ideal basis of the original game.
Two first ideas:
- Adding a "lock" button for each item slot to keep it from ever being emptied automatically.
- Adding "set default equipment" and "restore default equipment" buttons for each soldier, making the game try to auto-fill as much of your preferred choices as possible and maybe marking slots in red that couldn't be filled.