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Also adding map intel when getting interactive machine intel

Started by R-26 Lightspeed, February 23, 2025, 02:38:15 AM

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R-26 Lightspeed

When you get interactive machine intel (from stuff like Index(Terminal)), you get an intel marker for the interactive tiles of the relevant machines.
However, this isn't marked on the map at all, meaning that if you turn off machine intel, you can't see any of the relevant machines anymore.

My suggestion is to have interactive machine intel also directly mark the machine tiles onto the map if they weren't already known.

I thought i'd suggest this since the opposite (map intel gives machine intel for relevant tiles) was apparently added to Beta 15.
Although, i can see that there might be some annoying edge cases with locked-out machines (particularly Operator-locked Terminals), which would be reported as "functional", potentially placing an incorrect "functional machine" tile onto the map itself. Or, in the opposite case (where the actual state of the machine would be revealed on the map), this could potentially reveal that a Terminal was locked out when the player shouldn't have known that information.

Kyzrati

Yeah Beta 15 adds machine intel if you know the map, but not the other way around. The purpose for the new QoL feature is purely so that you have easier access to knowledge about known machines outside view, since markers are shown at the edge of the screen. There is no similar need to show machines (not to mention problems it causes)--simply turn on intel markers if you want to know their locations.
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