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Order management
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Steffstoff Posts: 22
9/1/2018
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Dear Dr.Dread,
It seems that some new players quit the game after just few days playing. I think it is important to investigate what the reason could be for discontinue playing. One think which I have in mind when I'am thinking about this is the order management system. So I'd like to drop my thoughts about it. What do you and all others are thinking about these suggestions to make the management a bit easier? Or where do you see usability issues or perhaps just space for improvement?
- Drag & drop
Move single orders via drag & drop into another position in the order list.
- Simple change order
Changing the input by clicking (double click) directly in the cell (for order number, amount, move to location, product, and so on...).
- Check boxes
With check boxes it would be possible to implement multi delete for specific orders in a list. Or... mark them grey what means "no action" but keep it for later (re-activating) which is useful too.
"No action" / grey is more in a larger purchase plans. I need some stuff on regular base for the city and it would be nice to have a big order list were I could blend out some buy orders including move to location stuff. 300 turns later I need this buy orders again.... so just clicking for re-activating those.  "
I think that would makes changes in an existing order list much easier.
On the other hand we should re-check the tutorial. Is anything in the tutorial what a new player really needs to enjoy? I know the community (we) are extremely helpful. But often new players like to explore a game first by their own. That would mean we are losing players before they are ready to get in touch with us. A good UI and game design should be kind of self-explanatory. May I'll open another thread regarding this.
Greetings
Steffstoff
edited by Steffstoff on 9/1/2018
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Exeler Posts: 3
9/2/2018
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I agree. Programming units to run orders is the mechanic that drew me to the game. I also think it ends up being one of the more time consuming aspects of the game.
As far as dragging and dropping to change the order of orders, I don't know how the game is implimented behind the scenes, but since it is browser based I'll take a guess that html, css, javascript are used for the onterface we get to see. I personally haven't messed with it before, but I believe html5 allows for draggable elements that can call specific functions when they are dragged around. I can't say how difficult something like this would be to impliment within the current design of the interface, but I think a couple of features like this would be worth the time/effort.
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_draganddrop.asp
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