Malfadors New Site Is Up WITH SCREEN SHOTS!

[clark]

[put the detectives hat on]

"Elementary, my dear Watson!"

Regarding this screen shot: http://malfador.com/SE5scr001.htm

Bottom Right corner control panel contains five icons in a row above a grid of other icons. Those 5 icons should represent various solar system view controls (from left to right: free form view?, rotate clockwise, rotate counter clockwise, zoom in, and zoom out)

The icon grid beneath seems to be a hodgepodge of hot button key commands like cargo unload, warp to, fleet join/unjoin, build, etc.

To the left of these icons is the selected sector information panel (i.e. the Homeworld planet info... but I assume that it would detail any selected sector, such as sun or stellar storm). It looks to show planet improvements as icons to the right of the planet (people, ship building, repair). I wonder if it will least icons for sats, fighters, Weapon Platforms, mines, etc. The flag of course tells you who owns the planet (which is also displayed above the planet in the solar system view screen).

Above this panel, and below the solar system map are six buttons, three on the left, three on the right. The three right ones look to be quick buttons (from left to right)for solar system grid (so you can turn it on and off), system info, and planet name/info. The three other buttons on the left hand side (a check, a cancel, a play button) all look to be some kind of "issue command", more than likely to confirm ship orders- but then, maybe not.

At the bottom left hand corner you have the galaxy map which looks to show the location of every other player in this game (they all are represented as being "known" (compare it to a an unknown solar system area- this is the first turn)

Above the galaxy map you have quick buttons for (left to right) Previous Ship, Next Ship, Previous Colony, Next Colony, Previous Fleet, Next Fleet, a big N button (no clue, maybe a quick button to an area of interest), and then some other button with 4 arrows (could be free form).

For the game map, it looks like moons have their own hex in relation to their orbiting parent (the planet they orbit).

And I think I've bored you all long enough... thanks for listening, I'm excited about the next version too!