Showing fetched runes on the screen?

[Turgon]

When I look at games of other players one of the first things I'm interested in is which runes they have collected. This is shown via % (or asking the players) - but what about showing this in the upper right part of the screen?

It could be shown below the gold/time information with something like

Gold: 4242 Time: 42.042
De/Ba Se/Gs Sl Si Ab Go Gl Ma Fi Da De Ir Ic Ob Bo

where De/Ba indicates decaying/barnacled rune (swamp/shoals) etc,
Gl Ma Fi Da De indicate pan runes,
Ir Ic Ob Bo indicate hell runes.

These letters could be shown in bold or in another colour when the player got this rune. Of course there are various other possibilities to do this, consider this as an example.

The question is if there is place for this information and if others are interested in this idea too.

[evilmike]

Sounds like it would just cause interface clutter, in my opinion.

If you want to get this info from a player, you should just send them a message like "Could you make a character dump (press #)? Thanks." 99% of players will be happy to do this as long as you ask nicely.

[Galefury]

IMO what information is useful for the player is by far the most important consideration when thinking about what information to show. Showing a list of runes on the main screen is simply a waste of space for the player.

[Bloax]

I thought we already had the } screen?

[crate]

Yes, you can already see this on the % and } screens, I don't see a reason to add it in more places.

If you are watching someone online you can actually get this information from Sequell if you want.

  Code:

!lm <playername> rune !ktyp s=rune

That should give you what you want, unless the player has more than one game active under the same name/nick (usually not a problem, and you can get around that too by refining your query).

[ketsa]

Would it be possible to allow spectators to access this kind of information without interfering with the player's game ?

allowing spectators to press % i ^ etc.

[dpeg]

ketsa: That would be the ultimate goal, but as far as I understood the relevant developers, it's a long way.