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Author Topic: [QoL] Add toggle to display sensor range on map  (Read 1932 times)

Daniexpert

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[QoL] Add toggle to display sensor range on map
« on: February 19, 2023, 05:14:57 PM »

At the moment, if you want to see the range of the equipped sensor on the map, you have to move the mouse over the sensor so that it shows the range, and if you're in keyboard mode, you have to switch to mouse mode so that it doesn't disappear when you move it once.

It would be really great if you could toggle the range display on the map without having to move the mouse, similar to Farcom. Perhaps a toggle in the spacebar menu would do the trick? If not, a setting in advanced.cfg?
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Re: [QoL] Add toggle to display sensor range on map
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2023, 05:32:12 PM »

Yeah you can still do it in keyboard mode, but have to toggle it manually when you want to see it specifically. You're actually wanting to switch to mouse mode to put your cursor over the thing to keep the hover range visible?!

I don't currently plan to add this particular permanent view to the map, though, for various reasons. If it was going to happen it would've been done ages ago, but there is too much variety in terms of the circle sizes there and it could interfere with more important info. The precise edges of the sensor range are much less important or reliable than, say, FarCom and others because it's not real-time info.

This is something that could theoretically be added one day, but most importantly can't be added now because it might need to be removed one day, and that's something that you don't want to do in a game wherever possible :P

So for example this could be added at the very end of development if it's still feasible.
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Re: [QoL] Add toggle to display sensor range on map
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2023, 05:23:19 PM »

Makes sense. Well, hopefully we'll see it one day :P

Thank you.
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