Creature Chooser Interface, player tabs

[andretchen0]

@DreadKnight

Question

Can the "dash" player tabs be dropped? Or made unclickable?

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Background

It's been a fair amount of work, but I have the "dash" – rebaptised as CreatureChooser – pulled out of interface.js.

One thing I'm wondering about are the "player tabs", shown outlined in pink below.

In the current version of the game, when you click on a player's tab, the interface shows you their creatures.

It's not hard to code up the behavior, but it seems to me that changing players in the dash is:

• non-obvious – I didn't realize the "priest" icons did anything until beginning work on this feature.
• confusing when accessed via the "summon" command – a player who clicks on the opposing player's priest icon can't summon until they realize they have to click on their own priest icon.

It just doesn't seem worth adding extra branches to the code, in order to keep a small feature that breaks the flow of actually choosing a creature. It seems like simplifying here helps the interface and the code.

Can the tabs be dropped? Or made unclickable?

[DreadKnight]

Yeah, they will get dropped pretty soon.
Once we have a decent amount of playable units, we'll switch to another picking type for the vanilla version of the game; basically, each unit will be materializable only once, on a first come, first served basis.
There will be some colored circles/squares around unit avatars indicating which players owns that unit.

I think there's an open issue for it already, will have to check properly, otherwise will make it soon with the proper specs.