OT = How Does Shrapnel Stay In Business

quote:

---

Originally posted by capnq:
LCC, large chunks of your description sound like what the developers of Master of Orion III are working towards, according to their Web site.

---

I will have to check that out! I certainly do NOT want to waste my time reinventing the wheel...

quote:

---

Originally posted by capnq:
Personally, your audio status indicators idea sounds like interface Hell to me. I've seen people describe Black & White as unplayable because of the scarcity of numeric status reports, among other things.
[/b]

---

I suppose I was not clear. As an OPTION to get a FEEL for how things are going with your managers and also to visually check for problem CLUSTERS on the map, you COULD specify association of four different values NORMALLY presented as tabular alphanumeric data, bar graphs, or charts to be displayed as color, texture, pattern, and sound. Each of the variables would have several possible values. Depending on the value of the variable, you get something different displayed on the map. For example :
1) Color : Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Cyan Magenta, anything else in the color chart, whatever you LIKE to move the color selection bars to create...
2) Texture : None, pebbly (dot grid), line grid, crosshatch, whatever you LIKE.
3) Pattern : any set of icon masks you like : such as plain old vanilla triangle, square, 5 point star, 6 point star, pentagon, octagon, circle, nested targeting circles, whatever in the world you LIKE.
4) Any sound file of appropriate length, Bach to Wagner, farts, screams, laughs, applause, whatever you LIKE.

And of course there is the old filter standby, STROBE whatever lies in the specified Category....