Thread:Lumbye/@comment-15636815-20140214203038/@comment-5275054-20140215013646

HISTORY:

Originally it was just the building template. Then some of the contract shops starting having the same buildings at different costs. We started by just duplicating the building template and then DocTrain wrote the contractor piece. It was intended that you could put multiple contractor templates, within the building template and for a while it worked great.

At some point while I wasn't very active it broke and not being a programmer myself I couldn't tell you why.

The other change that was made along the way was to allow for the cost template to be used instead of the seperate amt lines. The is still working sort of but if you look close the cost template seems to add an additional space in front of the first item so it doesn't exactly line up.

FUTURE:

We (ok mostly Kata) have nicely redesigned the train and wagon template to account for new changes in the game (mainly the price changing between offers) and we should consider the same for the building and decoration template. In addition to getting the contractor portion to work again, we should also consider incorporating a similar special offer section as the train and wagon. We may also want to consider IF (and this is a big IF) we can somehow nicely work in the night view for buildings. I don't now if you can have an active button that flips between images like the sun and moon in the game.

Not being a programmer I don't know how involved this all is so maybe fix the contractor portion first and a full redesign later.