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Discussion in 'Clockwork Empires General' started by Nicholas, May 28, 2015.

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  1. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    Care to elaborate?
     
    Nicholas, Jun 2, 2015
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  2. Samut

    Samut Member

    Work crews are shown as a set of icons at the building they work at. Staffed positions fill in from the left side, and show the sprite for that worker. Empty slots are on the right, and are grayed out.

    If you click on an empty position, that one and all positions to the right get a red X on them, showing that those positions will not be filled. Very simple and intuitive.

    If the folks at Gaslamp are not familiar with the Tropico series, it's absoutely worth a look - Tropico 3 and 4 are probably the most useful. Lots of good UI and display ideas that would fit into CE.
     
    Samut, Jun 2, 2015
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  3. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    Huh, interesting... and yes, I need to grab Tropico 4 at some point and spend some time with it.
     
    Nicholas, Jun 2, 2015
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  4. Seriously Mike

    Seriously Mike Member

    /define "nearby". Entire screen, half a screen, what happens if I build a mine in a place far away from surface ore nodes? Because I assume that if I built a mine next to a cluster of, let's say, coal and malachite nodes, the miners will retrieve coal and malachite. But, there's another question: would they be able to randomly find other things in that mine (not counting strange artifacts)?
     
    Seriously Mike, Jun 6, 2015
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  5. Wolg

    Wolg Member

    They do, though its unpredictable; putting a mine next to hematite and malachite, for example, I've also got healthy amounts of clay and even sand as other products.
     
    Wolg, Jun 6, 2015
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  6. dbaumgart

    dbaumgart Art Director Staff Member

    Yeah, mines will have some basic products (stone, sand, clay) based on where on the map they're built. Sand near the beach, stone more inland, clay in the middle. On top of that, the mine will search for whatever mineralogy points are nearby and add those to the list of products (and I'll probably weight it even more heavily toward ores vs. base products).
     
    dbaumgart, Jun 8, 2015
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  7. Seriously Mike

    Seriously Mike Member

    Well, duh. With that, I was thinking whether there would be a possibility to mark places where the surface deposits were, in case you mine everything on the ground and want to go deeper.

    Any idea what to consider "nearby"?
     
    Seriously Mike, Jun 8, 2015
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