Tooltip for knowing which ores new drill will hit

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Zaflis
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Tooltip for knowing which ores new drill will hit

Post by Zaflis »

When i have interface option set to show tooltips next to cursor, there is no tooltip shown at all when placing a new drill.
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What i'm looking to see is only this, no need for full miner tooltip:
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This is a thread continuation from bug report, where it was said to be intentionally hidden:
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I can agree that it serves no purpose seeing the building entity tooltip for everything like assemblers and chem plants, i really do need the information on the miner. But if it's really this small tooltip for resources only then it will not obstruct.
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Re: Tooltip for knowing which ores new drill will hit

Post by kpreid »

Or, the tooltip could be automatically moved to the right side instead of hidden.
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Re: Tooltip for knowing which ores new drill will hit

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I agree, it would be very useful to see this before placing the mining drill.
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Re: Tooltip for knowing which ores new drill will hit

Post by StrangePan »

It could be drawn similar to how the copy tool, cut tool, upgrade planner, and similar tools display the number and types of selected entities? So rather than a proper tooltip, it’s just a set of icons with numbers displayed below the cursor or entity.
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Re: Tooltip for knowing which ores new drill will hit

Post by Kyralessa »

StrangePan wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:18 am It could be drawn similar to how the copy tool, cut tool, upgrade planner, and similar tools display the number and types of selected entities? So rather than a proper tooltip, it’s just a set of icons with numbers displayed below the cursor or entity.
Sure, that sounds good. I think what most of us care about isn't how much ore, but what types, so we know whether we need a filter splitter, for instance.
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