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Area/Game:	Wooden Ships & Iron Men
1Topic:	Bugs and Improvements
Subject:	Re: [IDEAS]Disable turning buttons unless you can turn
Posted by:	dcr66 - 14years 296days ago.

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BlueDragon wrote:

dcr66 wrote:

Can you please (if possible) disable the turn left / turn right buttons on the "Ships's move input window" for the particular ships with this restrictions? Otherwise people will start sending bugs about their ships are not following orders, again.

When you can't turn because of the new dismasted rule, it should already tell you so (it will say "Unable to move").
Do you suggest to gray out buttons so that they can't be clicked? Sounds like a nice idea, we could gray them out when the ship is grappled too

I don't think I saw this "Unable to move" thing for turning when I clicked the turning buttons. For better GUI practice, disable or gray out the buttons when that ship cannot do that move. Put a tooltip over the grayed out button saying "Unable to Turn due to loss of riggings". If you can somehow list the length of turn until the end of the restriction, it will even be better. Then there will be no confusion after that.

dcr66 wrote:

Game URL: http://www.youplay.it/beta/play/ws_GameMove.asp?GameID=22936

For many turns the Neptune have been suffering from rigging damages. I have been trying to turn it clockwise for couple of turns but nothing happens

until turn 19. I suspect it has to do with this fix.

So you tried to turn Neptune on turn 17 and 18, your move was displayed in the preview, accepted as legal when you pressed the Move my Ships button but nothing had happened when the next turn appeared?
(just checking that I understood exactly what happened)

Yes. I swear I saw my move (turning) displayed in the preview before I pressed the Move my ships button.

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14years 296days	dcr66	[IDEAS]Disable turning buttons unless you can turn
14years 296days	BlueDragon	Re: [IDEAS]Disable turning buttons unless you can turn
14years 296days	dcr66	Re: [IDEAS]Disable turning buttons unless you can turn