Lair Larrikin
Posts: 18
Joined: Thursday, 15th November 2012, 16:04
Interface proposal : life savers screen
I'm not used to post a lot, so I'll start my message with a big thanks to the developpers of this great game.
Now, my suggestion.
I don't know if I'm absent-minded of whatever, but I keep losing my characters around level 15-20 in very savable situations. My problem is that I often forget that I have such special ability or such item that would save the day, and I realise when reading my morgue file that I worshipped Makhleb and could have summon some friend to kick ass for me, or that I had some blink scroll left to take me out of melee. I'm talking about life-saving options, that are accessible from various interfaces, and that are surrounded by so much non-life-saving options that I don't have them in mind all the time.
My suggestion here is to add a new interface screen to the game, where one would be able to add whatever ability/spell/scroll/evokable item/etc. he wants for a quick and direct access. Such interface could serve many purposes, but the one I see is to put all those life-saving options at the same place, at the exclusion of everything else. So that when I find myself in trouble, I just have to hit a key and have a clear view of what I can do to survive.
Some list hosted in the option file would prefill this screen when a given option become accessible.
Thanks for reading.
Gilles