UI Suggestion: Geoscape chinook flying icon with a figher escort

[stx]

In the latest build (10.2), when a chinook is flying it has its green icon.

The same is true when a fighter is flying. The green fighter icon is displayed.

When a group is composed of a fighter and a chinook, however, the geoscape icon is the icon of the first plane type selected.

If I click on the fighter and then on the chinook in the intercept window, the group icon is the fighter's one.

If I click on the chinook and then on the fighter in the intercept window, the group icon is the chinook's one.

I think this is a little confusing.

When a chinook (or any other chopper) is part of a flying group, then the group icon should at least be always the chinook's one. In order to make it clearer, the chinook icon could also be differently colored if the chinook flies with a fighter. It could for example be blue instead of green. Or it may be just a little different, such as a chinook with an asterisk or another symbol.

When many planes are flying, sometimes the action becomes a bit messy. The player should be able to distinguish the intercerptors groups from the transport groups at a glance, even if the chinook has an escort.

It's just a suggestion, as always.

Edited May 7, 2012 by stx

[erutan]

Sounds good to me.

[Belmakor]

I always get the drop ship icon?

[Chris]

Fair point. I'll put it on my list of usability tweaks for beta.

[IceVamp]

I like the idea of asterisks or something similar. And not only for dropships. One asterisk per extra unit in the flight. So if we get to have three escorts to our dropships, the icon would be drop ship and three asterisks. While a normal interceptor squadron of three only two asterisks.