fair gust
I'm working on a tool for lancer gms and I am looking for feedback. Here is a video detailing the workflow as it currently exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hzneiXNd0 What other features would you like to see? What workflow changes would you make? What would a better name be?
real yacht
Nice! The video is currently private, but I’d say maybe call it the “Lancer Sitrep Toolkit”?
I’m guessing it loads in LCPs or data exported from CompCon?
fair gust
Nice! The video is currently private, but I’d say maybe call it the “Lancer Sitr...
whoops lmao, should be public now, thanks for the heads up
I'm really hoping for an "NHP" abbreviation, but Lancer Sitrep Toolkit definitely seems more intelligible than "New Hostile Planner"
fair gust
I’m guessing it loads in LCPs or data exported from CompCon?
yes, that's the idea
LCPs, not compcon data exports
real yacht
whoops lmao, should be public now, thanks for the heads up
I'm really hoping for...
Ah okay, I see what you were going for haha
And nice on the LCPs; the screenshot looked like it had player names so that’s why I asked if it incorporated compcon exports
Okay I watched the video and I think the workflow is solid! You basically covered all of the “next steps” that came to my mind as well
The couple things I’d likely suggest:
fair gust
I'll add a dice roller to the list of maybes 🤔
I don't think I'm interested in tracking actions. Trying to give the program the ability to handle all that (with undos / redos / special actions) quickly and effortlessly seems like a lot of work for something that I just keep in my head as a gm anyways 🤷
real yacht
Yeah exactly what I mean about it being fiddly lol. The most I would honestly expect would be something like Protocol/[2 quicks|1 full]/movement and maaaaaaybe an off turn reaction checkmark
And you’d just click it on/off to indicate when it’s used or done (or if you’re undoing the action, whatever it was)
fair gust
tracking used reactions and refreshing them on a new round makes sense, I'll add that to the list too
rechargeable features are on the list as well
real yacht
That’s fair; tbh I was only thinking about whether a character still had their Reaction on a given turn but if it’s easy to get that data from the LCPs then I say go for it
last igloo
The drag and drop workflow does look way faster than current Compcon. Nice work!
Being able to see all the things an NPC can do spilt into those categories, and with the colour coding is really nice
Small UX change I'd recommend: changing the hostile checkbox to be a drop down with hostile / neutral / allied, to make it clearer what it's for and provide a third option
As for feature requests:
fair gust
As for feature requests:
- saving a group of players as a party to add all at o...
Do you think it would be good enough to show the details for the last X things that have been highlighted, or were you thinking more like the ability to pin / unpin details?
last igloo
Pinning would work even better yeah! That would also prevent accidentally clearing your selections. Seeing the last X things means the user doesn't have full control of what's in the panel at once, so doesn't quite achieve the goal
Though I imagine it would be best to have pins for each NPC that aren't visible when you select another, as you generally control only 1 at a time so only need to see their options, aside from reactions.
... Hmm, an available reaction pool from all NPCs might be useful too? I forget Commander stuff all the time for example haha
gray trout
Hey there! Have you done any other work on this?
fair gust
no, sorry! I didn't get as much interest as I was hoping for, and moved on to other projects. Comp/Con and other custom VTT solutions are good enough for most people, it seems 🤷
gray trout
no, sorry! I didn't get as much interest as I was hoping for, and moved on to ot...
Would love to chat about what you completed sometime! I have a working model in #1355566746840334367 and I'm hoping to work it into larger scale lancer campaign/video game generation later on :)