wcanyon Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 They are tedious. They take about a second each. In the later missions, that can mean 5-9s at the end of every alien turn because of all the dread. It gets old and slows down the game for no good reason. My suggestion: effects log, left side of screen: Barry Allen is overcome with dread. Bruce Wayne is unnerved. Clark Kent is overcome with dread. Oliver Queen has gone berserk! And so on. Clear the log at the end of the human turn. That would be more useful than a message that is gone a second later. Ideally those messages would be hyperlinkish -- they'd set focus on the affected soldier when clicked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar Pancakes Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Perhaps, but then we run into the issue that the player may not see those messages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcanyon Posted April 12, 2014 Author Share Posted April 12, 2014 How is that any different than now? And how would they miss it if the messages stayed on screen? I think you misunderstand: > Clear the log at the end of the human turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorix58 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I like wcanyon's idea. Once I see the flashes of those messages, I can understand what soldiers were "overcome with dread" by the TUs remaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcanyon Posted April 15, 2014 Author Share Posted April 15, 2014 I like wcanyon's idea. Once I see the flashes of those messages, I can understand what soldiers were "overcome with dread" by the TUs remaining. Or just do status effect icons -- you know, like every other game since M.U.L.E. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skitso Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) It should work exactly like beign suppressed plus bleeding. Overhead icon and portrait icon. I can make the icons if GH adds the code EDIT: something like this maybe: Edited April 15, 2014 by Skitso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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