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Geoff the Medio wrote:...but I think "Aggressive" describes the first option better than the (meaningless) "Standard". Also, there's no reason to assume or imply that "Aggressive" would be the normal / most commonly used setting.

I don't really care what a player might do more often -- depends on play style, but attacking and blockading your enemy is very easily understood as the default or normal interaction. I thought about "open" as the opposite to "secret", but that word has too many meanings to clarify anything.

"Aggressive" makes no sense for any empires you are not at war with.

Also, the same icons are used for both settings for empires and fleets. "combat.png" is unused.
Can you link one of them to different icons so i can help visually distinguish diplomatic status from fleet settings.

eleazar wrote:...attacking and blockading your enemy is very easily understood as the default or normal interaction.

I disagree, but I don't think it matters, as IMO the state / setting should give some direct indication of what it means, rather than assuming the player knows what "standard" means.

"Aggressive" makes no sense for any empires you are not at war with.

And "Hidden" doesn't apply if you have a vision sharing agreement with an empire... There are going to be causes where the orders don't have any relevance, but I think we should focus their names to apply to situations when they are relevant.

Also, the same icons are used for both settings for empires and fleets. "combat.png" is unused. Can you link one of them to different icons so i can help visually distinguish diplomatic status from fleet settings.

I've added fleet_aggressive.png, fleet_aggressive_mouseover.png, fleet_passive.png, and fleet_passive_mouseover.png.

Geoff the Medio wrote:And "Hidden" doesn't apply if you have a vision sharing agreement with an empire...

Vision sharing currently doesn't exist, and, while i like the idea, may not ever. I'm worried about explaining current behavior.

I've added fleet_aggressive.png, fleet_aggressive_mouseover.png, fleet_passive.png, and fleet_passive_mouseover.png.

Thanks.

How about "Control System" and "Hide"? This way they're both verbs, both sort of indicate the benefit or purpose of the settings (vaguely covering both attacking enemies and blocking supply propagation), and perhaps it makes more sense to not object to empires you're at peace with being present if you're controlling rather than aggressive?

Geoff the Medio wrote:How about "Control System" and "Hide"?

Sounds good.

revision 5089
"clarified-- if quick-- icons and lables for fleet stances."