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[Teppo Maenpaa <teppo.maenpaa@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 08:34:35PM +0200, Holger Rapp wrote:

> I like the suggestion - however I am a bit concerned how this can be 
> explained to the user. So if you implement this, you will also need to 
> implement a mouse over text of some sort or a status image inside the 
> constructionsite window or something. The color alone is not easy to 
> understand.
Hi,

Are you sure?

People generally associate red with "something wrong", green with "going 
strong" and yellow with in-between. The details would, of course, not be 
obvious at day zero.
In my opinion, there are many more severe documentatation issues with the 
game. For example, it is not easy for the novice guy to figure out, which 
wares a brewery produces (like that it is not producing beer..). While I 
agree that tooltip texts would be nice, I am unsure how to do it: More 
experienced players could be irritated by trivialities like the tooltip 
popping all the time. If you think that mouse over test *must* be present 
too, then this would surely be a future release thing.
Regards,


	Teppo