Suggestion - changing mana usage scale in lexicon

adarsh

Hiya. I thought it'd be nice if the zoom options in the lexicon under mana infusion recipes were x100 and x1, rather than x10 and x1. Would be much more useful for players using Diluted pools, and doesn't seem too tricky to implement given it's entirely located in the clientside Patchi ManaComponent class.

Wormbo

Switching between 1x and 100x magnification also has its downsides for anything slightly above one diluted pool worth of mana.

At some point I had an idea for a somewhat radically different way to show it: The cost indicator is split into two parts, the bar on the right and one or more pools on the left. Amounts below one diluted pool just display a partially filled diluted pool and the bar that indicates how much of a diluted pool it is. If it's somewhere in the range of, say, up to 5 diluted pools, you get a number of full diluted pool icons and a partially-filled one for the mana bar that shows the remainder. (For something like a mana diamond, where it's exactly a multiple of diluted pools, the bar is full and the full pools part contains one fewer than the actual multiple, since that last one is represented by the bar.)
When the amount exceeds a reasonable number of diluted pools, the display switches to showing it as regular pools. I guess a special case would be exactly a full pool + 1 mana, which is allowed as the maximum cost for mana infusion to only do that in creative pools. Other lower or higher amounts (e.g. terra plate recipes requiring a couple of pools worth) just use the same mechanism as the diluted pool approach above.

I haven't tried mocking up this approach to see if it can be presented in a reasonable way, but maybe I should do that to see if it's viable.

artemis

I've also been meaning to streamline the mana display. the default x10 zoom in recipe viewers that's not annotated and can't be change is extra bad. Maybe something could be done with logarithms, different scales, something like that. I don't really like the idea of "amount of diluted pools", since that kinda brings numbers into it in a very obvious way. The game will directly be telling you "this recipe costs 3 diluted pools", "this recipe costs one diluted pool", which i don't think is something we want to do.

adarsh

A mix of both might not be bad. For recipes that can be done in a diluted pool, it shows the x1 scale with a small diluted pool to the side of the bar, while anything more would have a regular pool on the side (with a zoom option as there is currently). As someone who did maths but hated every minute of it, I understand why logs might be appealing but I feel like for many players it wouldn't be intuitive, however I do agree on why displaying # of diluted pools might fringe on numerical mana.