Gameplay menus improvement

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nick87720z
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Gameplay menus improvement

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Filtering
This is about menu of everything, that may be organized to long list, splited by pages.

I initially thinked about making categories, but most items match to most part of category, so it is better just to filter by name, description, may be some tags.

Some examples for research menu:
- lancer: only tech for lancer, mk improvements, including minirocket technologies, affecting it, cyborg kinds, structure researches;
- anti-tank: implies lancer, tank-killer, scorge, rocket fortresses.
- anti-air: imply both special AA and versatile (hitting both air and ground), including latest rocket fortress.
- sensor, radar: there could be both sensors and command unit

For unit and production menus filtering may be done by propulsion, body and weapon - also by name and class (AA, anti-tank, indirect, sensor,
etc).

There should be separate tags menu with possible user favorite menu, displayed by button after search field with possible auto-completion.

Unlimited pages number
Also there could be scrolling support instead of pages, and menu itself may have different size and placement (sticked to any side with crolling in same direction), while additional views (unit info and preview in design mode) could be floating or sticked as well.
If item number is too small, it could shrink up to some minimal size.
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Re: Gameplay menus improvement

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I still think that I support the idea of categorizing.
But instead of similarities and differences it could be more between the links in their research paths.

Still not a bad idea. Started to get myself thinking.
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Re: Gameplay menus improvement

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My previous post was just focusing on the research tree.
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