Along the way, I've occasionally thought, "Hmm, this technomancy thing would be easier if the game had this feature." As is my standard practice, 
I'm accumulating these changes in my new Technomancy Tweaks addon. Here's what I've got so far:
- My terrene technomancer was having trouble keeping track of where all his spiderbots were and what they were doing, so we add a status tracker to the Micro Spiderbot talent. At a glance, it shows the number of active spiderbots you have and the highest of their remaining durations; the tooltip goes into more detail, listing their locations, the actor (if any) they're attacking, and their remaining durations.
- My galvanic technomancer obviously wanted a metallic tinker on her staff for purposes of Galvanic Arcing, and I found myself digging around in the tinker definitions to find out which ones qualify. Easy enough to add that information to the object tooltip; I'm currently showing it for everything, but I can limit it to just weapons and tinkers if people think it's superfluous elsewhere.
Spiderbot, spiderbot / Has whatever a spider got " unstuck out of my head… 
)[Looking ahead, I can see this as a likely candidate for a future version of ZOmnibus, and maybe ZOmnibus Lite, depending on whether we think it violates the "otherwise unavailable information" constraint. Either way, we'd probably need a game option to turn off at least the spiderbot tracker.]
[Implementation notes:
Code: Select all
Hooks:
ToME:load [to modify Micro Spiderbot talent]
Object:descMisc [to add "Metallic" to tooltip as needed]
), but I fired one up recently and discovered that the status display for the Spiderbots Shield effect only shows the remaining duration — which is kind of anemic compared to, for instance, Damage Shield, which nowadays shows both duration and remaining shield strength.