Topic: New main menu item - Where?
I've been asked to post some topics where we ask your opinion on proposed features, so here we go.
We'd like to add another button to the top right row of the main menu bar. It would be the place where you exchange energy credits into goodies (yes, it's coming).
The problem is, adding another one would make it already too wide and interfere with the deploy button, in the minimum required resolution of 1024x768. So we have to make space somehow.
In the past we solved this by narrowing down the margin between buttons, but there is a point where that isn't a solution anymore.
This is pretty much a simple usability/gui issue, but since I believe you're using those buttons quite often, I wouldn't want to go against any habits of yours.
My suggestions:
1. Move over the private storage and corporation storage buttons over to the left bunch of buttons, right next to agent profile and corp management. In this case, we would be obviously f***ed again if we wanted to put in another 2 buttons in the future.
2. Forget the separation of the left and right sections, and simply align the deploy button on the left and all the menu buttons together on the right (or vice versa).
3. Gather all industry-related buttons on the right under one dropdown menu, just like the terrain windows menu when outside. This would free up 4-5 button spaces, but would slightly slow down the access of industrial facilities (even though you can also use hotkeys).
Thoughts?