How do you reduce the size of news items SEV

[Moriarty]

The first time I saw that functionality (clicking the column header to shrink pics) I thought it was a bug and added it to my bug list. I eventually figured out it was intended behaviour.

For me the small pictures are all broken - They show the top 1/5th of so the picture but 5 times.

Here's a simple question - Why does the player need to be able to change the size of the pictures? If you just left them on small pictures, wouldn't that be sufficient for everyone? The only reason I don't use small pictures is because of the afore-mentioned bug - thus I use the all-text news?
That's the sort of thing you should be asking yourself with every feature implementation - does the player need it?


Personally I think Stars! had the best news collating system I've ever seen in a 4x game. You don't want a message type (i.e. that a building has been built) you click "hide" and you never see it again unless you select "show hidden messages".

That's just one little checkbox. You wouldn't need the "research, construction, combat" sub-categories (which are practically useless to me because they all contain news items that I'm un-interested in so I stick to "All").

You don't HAVE to reinvent the wheel you know.
Keep It Simple