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WHAT:

Please fix that the yield messages from mining ruins on Fulgora clutter the screen too much.

WHY:

When a player mines a resource, a yield message appears immediately to the right of the cursor, and it drifts slowly upwards for about 5 seconds.

When mining ruins on Fulgora, the yield messages from mining ruins clutter the area right around the player. If the cursor is to the left of the character, or the character is moving to the right, the area becomes obscured.

Generally, the floating yield messages are a nice extra bit of info, but never so valuable that it's worth obscuring the player's view of the gameplay.


My character and some ruins are under there somewhere.


HOW:

Please give options to shorten the duration of the messages, change the relative offset, or eliminate them entirely.

They should be centered on the player instead of the rocks/ruins, and they should increase the displayed numbers and extend the duration instead of popping up a new message. (So you'd have just one message that lasts a slightly longer time, with changing numebrs, if you're mining a lot of rocks/ruins.) That'd be similar to how consecutive damage numbers are displayed in Slay the Spire and other games.

Y'all went offworld without a stack of construction bots?

computeraddict wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:58 pm Y'all went offworld without a stack of construction bots?

You can't bring bots with you into space. You have to gather resources and build a cargo landing pad first to receive them.

runamucker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 3:52 am You can't bring bots with you into space. You have to gather resources and build a cargo landing pad first to receive them.

Actually, you can drop resources from a second rocket-launch directly onto the planet without a landing pad. They get scattered around your starting island, as far as I know.

computeraddict wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:58 pm Y'all went offworld without a stack of construction bots?

My first ship actually crashed from asteroids, and my Nauvis base was pre-bots. So I had no way to get robots to help me, and I was stuck on Fulgora until I restarted a new game. Either way, changing how these numbers are displayed should be a small change, and definitely not affect balance or anything else. Pure UX improvement.

runamucker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 3:52 am

computeraddict wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:58 pm Y'all went offworld without a stack of construction bots?

You can't bring bots with you into space. You have to gather resources and build a cargo landing pad first to receive them.

You can drop stuff manually to the surface without a landing pad. You just can't do it automatically. I landed on Vulcanus with refineries, miners, steam turbines, a tank, a stack of U238, a stack of regular cannon shells, bots, roboports, etc. The only thing I dropped without a landing pad was myself and a landing pad, though.

computeraddict wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:04 am You can drop stuff manually to the surface without a landing pad. You just can't do it automatically. I landed on Vulcanus with refineries, miners, steam turbines, a tank, a stack of U238, a stack of regular cannon shells, bots, roboports, etc. The only thing I dropped without a landing pad was myself and a landing pad, though.

WHAT NOW!??!

And how did you drop yourself onto a landing pad without having placed one first?