Summarised talent info

[Grey]

Currently in the talent window there is displayed the talent description and details, and you have to scroll down to see what it's like at a higher talent level. Why not incorporate the two into one? For instance, the display for Dirty Fighting could be:

Dirty Fighting (class talent)

Current talent level: 1 [-> 2]
- Talent category known
- Cunning 12 [-> 14]
- Level 0 [-> 1]

Effective talent level: 1.3 [-> 2.6]
Use mode: Activated
Stamina cost: 10.6
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage speed: 1 turn
Description: You hit your target doing 45% [-> 56%] damage, trying to stun it instead of damaging it. If your attack hits, the target is stunned for 5 [->6] turns.
Stun chance increase with talent level and your Dexterity stat.


This would shorten the talent screen, and make it clear which attributes change. You could even go further and make each bracket list its dependencies.

[Susramanian]

Great idea, Grey. Darkgod, this would go nicely in your list of b27 UI improvements.

[Grey]

Bump cause I want to see this :P Means a lot of boring recoding of talent descriptions, but would be a marked improvement, and others can be gotten to do the grunt work. It would also allow for more detailed talent descriptions without overfilling the description window, which would benefit certain talents that need a bit more verbosity.

[darkgod]

Yeah but as I said, it either requires changing all talent descriptions (many hundreds!) or finding a very very smart solution ...

Luckily for you I'm very very smart!

No talents description changes required, it uses the fact that TStrings are tables and not real strings to facilitate tokenization and automatic diff

[Grey]

This is why they call you a god ;)

[Susramanian]

Beautiful. As a further refinement to the talent screen, how about a three-column format-- one for class talents, one for generic talents, and the third for the talent info as you've displayed. I suggest this since vertical space is much more limited than horizontal space, so listing the talent trees in one giant column is suboptimal.

[Nori]

Looks great!