Re: beta testing comments

[Nick Mann]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, David Philippi wrote:

> On Thursday 31 October 2002 15:14, Nick Mann wrote:
> > While I'm at it, is there any chance I could suggest a couple of features?
>
> It would be better to subscribe to the list for doing this. Adding you per cc
> isn't likely to be done (remembered) by everyone and there isn't much traffic
> on the list anyway.

fair point.  I guess I can filter yet another mailing list ;)

> > It would make a world of usabilty difference if there was a way to select
> > a more specific pingu from a group under the cursor - eg to be able to
> > select only a pingu going left or right, or to select the "working"
> > pingu - its very annoying to find out you've just used your last builder
> > building the wrong way!
>
> 1. How do you suggest doing this? In pause mode? With a modifier key? It works
> right now in most cases if you apply the action in pause mode but I wouldn't
> count on this "feature" to stay forever.

Definitely with a modifier.  I've never been a pause mode person ;)  I'd
not thought of trying pausing.

> 2. Don't you think that the way it is may be seen as feature. You have to be
> fast to apply the action before to many pingus arrive (or lucky).

Personally, I'd not consider it a feature, but I can see how some
people might.  Certainly with some situations (trying to stop a pingus
digging, for instance) you really want to select the digger an not a
random one, but no matter how fast you are, by the time the digger has
got down far enough, there will be many pingus in the hole.  An example of
left/right selection is left as an exercise to the reader.

In some ways your point is self defeating - you either have to be fast or
-lucky-.  Pingus is one of those game which really doesnt rely very much
on luck.  It'd be a shame to make is so (at least for us not so fast
people ;)

Of course, throwing up ideas is the easy bit, so I'd not begrudge people
ignoring me :)

Sneezy.