News tab for each industry

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Frostypaws
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News tab for each industry

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We have the news ticker at the bottom, and the message history, but if you’re not paying attention, updates relating to specific industries can easily get lost - especially when dealing with lots of industries. My suggestion is to implement a “news” tab for each specific industry - ie when you click on a forest, in the overview you get there, you have the option to display chain, then “news”

This would primarily be for production changes and I think recessions should fall under this title too - but could be used to highlight if stations which the industry falls under catchment for stations which have a “first vehicle” or “now accepts/no longer accepts” message attached to them.
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odisseus
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Re: News tab for each industry

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In my opinion, production changes are the most useless type of notification. They definitely don't deserve a separate tab in the interface. Moreover, when you click on the industry, you already see whether its production has changed and how much.
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It would make more sense to have a proper production-over-time graph for each industry.
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LaChupacabra
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Post by LaChupacabra »

jfs wrote: 11 Oct 2022 14:37 It would make more sense to have a proper production-over-time graph for each industry.
I like this idea. :)
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There is also possible to include other additional interesting information in the window.
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Perhaps the problem could be the amount of data the game would have to collect and the size of the save files...
I am sorry for may English. I know is bed.
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