There is a fourteen digit minimap display system which displays comparitive stats when you select different items in your inventory...
A display could look like this:
QUOTE
DMG-S14
B01
This would show that the weapon you have selected, if equiped, would bring you up from your already equiped amounts. The item reads, S14, meaning, Sharp weapon type with 14 total physical damage. The already equiped number, from this you can tell it is the Zergling warrior because its hands, when no weapon is equiped, do Blunt 1 damage.
When the item is equiped, It shows a display instead of the Equiped numbers which would just be repeated because that would be the item you have equiped!
You can go up/down your list of items to select a different item, or left/right to display different Detail pages.
Pages include Base Stat, Durability, and two Specific Effect pages.
Base stat would include the following for these types of items:
• Weapon - DMG-###
• Armor - DEF-###
• Item/ Potion - Quantity Amount as a ###
Durability shows as 'Wear-##'
Durabillity is out of 27 max amount. Small items get 3, medium gets 9, and large items get 27 durabillity. Smaller items and large items get marked off durability at the same rate, the numbers just show more accurately how your items are holding up.
Specific Stat pages display other attributes of items such as Life/Soul Leach, Mana addition, Mana Regeneration increases, Accuracy, Critical Hit rates, and much more.
All of these systems come with a very easy help dropdown menu.
Everything may be done without looking at anything but the area your hero is walking around at. The shuttle command system handles all of these options.
We made it so that moving the shuttle from its original position drops down the Help for each specific area. This will display what each of the 8 units inside the shuttle do, as well as help for speific pages which use abbreviations which you might not understand. Detail pages with M for Mana, and R for Mana Regeneration will be just a few listed especially under the individual help menus.
Each menu contains a cooldown rate which allows you to reexpand the menu, but only after a specific amount of time. This provents accidental repeating and spamming.
There are many other systems and safetys that this system contains, but I really can't tell everything. For my own purposes, I will not be explaining this on the main thread because this reveals quite a few in-game features.
All of the systems listed above are completed. Nothing was "fortelled" in the msg.