Make LCD's programs useful QOL

BellBirdBits shared this feedback 9 hours ago
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The LCD programs are nearly useless, there should be lots more useful info for them. Maybe they should work like the event block somewhat in that you can pick containers or blocks to display info about. The LCD programs should be the bread and butter of useful info, they should show us and allow us to aggregate all the useful info we need.

I'm often flying around with 3 screens in front of me, showing nothing, because there's nothing useful.

Here's a bit of a list for actually useful LCD programs:

Total batteries charge % on grid, Time till full/time till empty, capacity in MWH, total instantaneous output, table of individual charges

Total gases % on grid, total kg, time to full/empty, h2o2 connected and supplying/on

Base ship mass, inventory volume, inventory mass, total mass, total weight in current gravity, acceleration time to full speed, current time to full stop (at given angle while slowing), KNt thrust force for each axis. Time to complete a roll in each axis (maybe some nice bars that move up and down as you use thrusters and show how close you are to limits?)

Table of parts in grid containers, count, weight and volume

Table of weapons/ammo/tools/misc (so table of parts isnt cluttered)

Table of ores

Table of Ingots

Damage chart showing a simple top front side with markers on damaged blocks

Table of Jump drive statuses

Total % filled of all containers, with a table below it of containers on grid with fill % and weight/volume

Projectors total parts remaining list, parts in storage matching projection requirement, parts missing (like the ingot list in assembler but for parts)

Drills total fill %, table of fill % mass and volume


Even just a few of these would be amazing. LCD's are sorely neglected, its a QOL that is usually filled in by mods/PB scripts. But we cant always use those.

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If Keen wants to make them a game mechanic, it would be interesting if the "programs" were chips you buy at the stations. You then pop them in to your cockpit/LCD/station panel slots for each screen

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