endless-sky/endless-sky

Add reverse thrust stats to the ship movement stats

brendanjones opened this issue · 7 comments

Problem Description

We currently display max speed, acceleration and turning stats, like so
Screenshot 2024-03-27 at 19 07 41

But if you have a reverse thruster installed you're clueless as to how much reverse speed and acceleration that gives you.

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Desired Solution

Add reverse speed (and acceleration?) stats to the ship movement stats.

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While I agree that this is an issue, this still runs up against the problem that the UI box is full already with the Navy Carrier, and adding even one line would cause it to overflow.

Indeed an issue, @ziproot . I’m of the opinion that when in Outfits, the stats of the currently selected ship should display in a separate box to the left of the fleet list, instead of below the fleet list. This would somewhat mitigate the issue of constantly having to scroll down to see the effect of any installed outfits.

Yes it would squish up the outfits list, but I think the trade-off is worth it.

What fleet list?

EDIT: This is the player info panel, which has a fixed size

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Maybe meaning the Outfitter screen?

Ah sorry, I meant the outfitter screen indeed, didn’t realise you mean the player info panel. That is quite a large panel, so if we really want to display this reverse thrust info then I’m sure we can get creative with the panel layout.