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Excellion
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Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:00 pm

I have been looking around for a bit and didn't manage to find a dedicated suggestion thread, and i didn't feel like it would be a good idea to hijack another persons thread to add my own to them. In other words - new thread ho! (And apologies if i just overlooked a thread where i should be posting :)).

Having played the game a couple hours over the past several weeks, there are two slight fairly minor suggestions i came up with, since i felt they were lacking when playing the game.

1) Customizable character titles.
I tend to name my characters after their respective role in my party (Medic, Katana, Heavy, Saber et cetera), since having 10+ characters made it somewhat confusing to remember who did what if i gave them more common names (Loads of fun to see "Ben" being chopped down, just to remember he was actually my medic who got ambushed by a second group of bandits). While the naming is quite effective, its rather silly to have 10 people named Katana and one named medic running about in a squad.

As of such, it would be nice if you could add a custom title to a character, which would display in small print under their name in both the character panel and on the field. For example:
[BEN]
[Medic]

2) Click-n-drag reordering the squad panel.
This one might just be me, but i like to have a fairly orderly character panel where people can be sorted. That would allow me to have my main character in front, then the two medics, then the 4 katana's, the 2 sabers et cetera, rather then the "You recruited them in that order" mess it is now (Now where did i leave katana number 7 again? Hmmmm?). Would make it quite a bit simpler to find that one character i was actually looking for, rather then having to go trough their stats every time.
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Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:03 pm

I whole-heartedly agree with the squad panel I would love to be able to reorder the list. Also if you have someone with a long name it runs into the other names on the current panel, it gets confusing.

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Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:42 pm

Totally agree. Being able to cycle through squadmates with the keyboard instead of having to click each one would be neat too.

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Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:22 am

I would love to be actually able to assign their name text to a different colour from a panel of colours. I could have all of one group of guys have their names appear in green so I can remember them as a specific task, others in red, etc.

Alternatively, I could make them into raiding teams. Green team, red team, blue team. Lots of different uses for easy to see colour labelling.
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Excellion
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Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:21 pm

Blxz wrote:I would love to be actually able to assign their name text to a different colour from a panel of colours. I could have all of one group of guys have their names appear in green so I can remember them as a specific task, others in red, etc.

Alternatively, I could make them into raiding teams. Green team, red team, blue team. Lots of different uses for easy to see colour labelling.
*Nods* I assume that Kenshi will need some form of squad / army control when multi-threading makes its way into the game. After all, i can't imagine that a 500 man army would still be efficient to control one by one; Just think of the horror of supplying each individually with arnor, medkits and so on. And just imagine what it would be like to control different groups, as i assume that one would leave a small guard at an outpost while another larger force is raiding something.

For now i guess that is all future music, music i am really looking forward to :D. Still, a few minor tweaks to squad sorting would be a very nice addition, even at this stage.

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Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:57 am

Excellion wrote:music i am really looking forward to :D.
Don't get your hopes up. Music has been ruled out in favour of ambient sounds only.
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