DD/GUI/Build menu
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The build menu is described here.
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Proposal
The building menu is the place where you select buildings to build. It's one of the most needed menus.
Summary
This should be a window based on a left-hand side tab bar where you can select the configuration level or special buildings. If you select a configuration level, all the buildings of this class should be displayed orderd in military, manufracturing and so on. In the special menu, all the gifts of the population are shown. Below the the list is a place where the selectet building is described.
If you click once on a icon, the descriptionis shown. After a double click, the general build process starts.
Implementation related note
Workings
Firstly, the player have to secect a tab and after that the correct building. After that, it's on him, if he want's to read the description (single click) or wants to build it (double click) by clicking on the building's icon.
Graphical content
We need icons for every building and the menue graphics.
Open questions
| Open question: I'm not sure, if we should implent a building description directly in the building menu. Probably we should use an independend built-in encyclopedia. Andre 17:24, 5 April 2008 (UTC) |
| Suggestion: Basic information about a building has definitly to be diplayed in the build menu - e.g. build costs, size, and so on. More details should be listed in a tab in the building's menu itself. The encyclopedia should be implemented nevertheless. --dauerflucher 01:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC) |
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| Open question: What kind of categories we should use ? We have the following buildings in the first stage branch office storage street tent tree pasture potatoefield farmer lumberjack weaver fisher hunter marketplace church kilian 13.09.2009 |
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| Suggestion: Housing: settler, marketplace, church infrastructure: street, storage, (branch o isn't in the build menu, afaik) first stage production: lj, tree, farmer, potatoes, pasture, hunter, fisher (with lj-tree and farmer-fields being somehow visually connected) second stage production: weaver |
Use Cases
Phasing
This is a main feature wich is needed in the first milestone.
