Color-Coded Monster List for Tiles

[8bitsdeep]

Community aspects aside, the Monster List HUD in WebTiles is easily the best thing about playing online.

It is extremely handy to have a visual shorthand for how dangerous every monster in your LOS is. It also greatly cuts down on the tedium of examining monsters to get their danger rating. I honestly find playing offline kind of painful now just because of this one UI omission.

I enjoy the displayed monster names in webtiles, but even adding a colored mark or something that denotes the danger level of a monster to the existing Tiles monster list would be an immediate improvement.

[8bitsdeep]

So, thanks to hurricane Matthew, I found myself forced to play offline again yesterday. While forlornly combing through the options txt, I noticed the "tile_show_demon_tier" option for the first time.

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I didn't even know demons had tiers and I'm not sure why that's important. Regardless, using this same system but for danger ratings would be a great alternative to changing the monster list for offline tiles, if that's preferable for some reason. I'd be happy to pixel up the icons for it if needed. I imagine them as just smaller versions of the 'Detected Monster outside of LOS' icons.

[dpeg]

8bitsdeep: In console, demons populate the letters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 -- these are the tiers (with 5 demons the easiest, such as crimson imps, and 1 the hardest, such as executioners). I guess these tiers are not really needed to play the game and, if my memory serves right (only from reading commit messages, I never played tiles), then the tier used to indicated on tiles and then was removed, i.e. turned into an option. Kudos to the artist for coming up with the partially coloured pentagram -- very cool!

Re: local tiles vs webtiles: It's unfortunate that we have two tiles versions with, as I hear, different advantages. No idea what the plans are for merging them, if any. Perhaps someone can chime in.