News:

Simutrans Wiki Manual
The official on-line manual for Simutrans. Read and contribute.

Finance window could use some improvements.

Started by ӔO, January 09, 2014, 04:26:17 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

ӔO

1. The Finance window is broken down into year/month on the left plane, but not on the right, which was a nice overview when there was no year and month tab, but now that there is, I don't think this is adequate.

I would suggest that the column displaying next month's maintenance instead display "Next year" and "Next month" in their respective tabs.


I don't think it is absolutely necessary to project the other data, but lessening ambiguity of data shown should be.



2. Showing very big numbers could be done more gracefully. (Player list window could also use this)
Currently, the game will show up to 9+2 digits (eg. -100,000,000.00c), but over that and the numbers will start to overlap and the important parts will become difficult to read.

In such cases, I think it would be better to display to the nearest Giga/billion, with one decimal place, so that it fits within the constraints.
eg. 12,345,000,000.00c becomes 12.3Gc
My Sketchup open project sources
various projects rolled up: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17111233/Roll_up.rar

Colour safe chart:

prissi

The game uses million (M) already when you reaching a billion.

ӔO

it does? oh okay, I should try out the latest then.
My Sketchup open project sources
various projects rolled up: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17111233/Roll_up.rar

Colour safe chart: