UI overview

[alice-i-cecile]

Constraints

• No direct control
• No need to manually rebuild in the case of disaster
• Works in 2.5D
• Works on a hex grid
• Controls must be rebindable
• Controls must be able to be disambiguated effectively
• Mild efficiency improvements for micro-management
• Ability to respond to emergencies at a cost
• Mechanics should encourage leaving slack in system to be able to respond to emergent problems and opportunities

Soft constraints

• Joystick compatible
• Light screen footprint by default

Tools

• Zoning
• Pheromones
• Speciation

Diagnostics

• Individual view
  • Shows the exact details and statistics of the individual tile / object / unit / building selected
• Species view
  • Shows the typical characteristics of the genre of object selected
  • Tied into speciation panel
• Information overlay
  • Oxygen Not Included style of information overlays
  • Aggressive use of choropleth maps. Maybe with equipotential lines?
  • Used to debug signals
  • Used to diagnose environmental conditions like nutrients, temperature, moisture
  • Probably needs to be able to display vector fields nicely too
• Production statistics
  • Shows long term stats about colony health and progress
  • Loose correspondence to information overlay
  • Can set alerts
  • Can define "always monitor" diagnostics, as in ONI