Tiles: Add Option for General Threat Level Icons


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Mines Malingerer

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Post Tuesday, 26th June 2018, 16:27

Tiles: Add Option for General Threat Level Icons

Proposal: new option - tile_show_threat_level (default: true)

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This would save a lot of xv'ing for offline players and could even give online players more situational awareness, though the monster list does a lot of the same work online.


I posted this a couple years ago and it was very well received. I thought it might be worth a revisit now and see if anyone's available/interested in implementing it: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22436
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Post Thursday, 28th June 2018, 11:22

Re: Tiles: Add Option for General Threat Level Icons

This is too cluttered for my taste. I would much rather just see the monster list implemented for offline tiles.

At the very least I would reserve the mark for dangerous and extremely dangerous enemies.

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Post Thursday, 28th June 2018, 17:29

Re: Tiles: Add Option for General Threat Level Icons

As someone who plays almost exclusively online, something like this would be very useful for me. I use that monster list all the time to the point where I can't really play offline. I'd love the full list to be implemented, but I get why that might not be feasible.

To the point about clutter, I agree, but maybe it's just a threshold in the rc_file - display all threats above <whatever>. That way, the code can have all the icons if people want them, and the default can be dangerous (or off, or whatever.)
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Post Tuesday, 3rd July 2018, 21:51

Re: Tiles: Add Option for General Threat Level Icons

I like the threshold idea. Makes it easy for everyone to pick the right balance for them.
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