Saving map generation settings

[Kyouko Tsukino]

It would be nice if those could be saved, or at least remembered from last time they were used. I like making things annoying by only having the map generate uncolored pure asteroids, or make it so shapes have a higher chance of having colors but no colors asteroids exist, or other weird things like that (1% asteroids, anyone? Don't try it unlike you love the idea of watching a space belt carry a task shape for fifty quadrants...)

Having to redefine all the slider settings each time I want to replay a certain map generation style is, however, not fun.

And speaking of not fun, the sliders should also have input boxes. Some of us don't have mouses capable of nine million DPIs so getting an exact percentage can be either impossible or take a while.

[elidoran]

Wow. Totally agree with this.

1a. being able to store the MapGen settings, with a name, to reuse would be so helpful.

1b. if they could be shared like blueprints, it'd allow sharing a kind of world design for various community challenges.

2. input boxes because sliders are actually horrible to use when trying to do exact amounts. some of the settings I can't get it to set them to a multiple of 100 and it's annoying.

Also, I think the UI was designed by devs who know the inner workings of the generation algorithms so the UI serves that. However, it's lacking design to support those who use the UI.

One simple change, don't regenerate the map until there's been a long enough delay, or, better, make it a button to regen on click. The button becomes available when something has changed. That way, I can change a bunch of settings and then click the button for it to regen. All the regen'ing over and over which I don't want to happen yet is wasted time, and there's a whole lot of that.

I doubt there's much interest in changing the MapGen UI, but, if there's any interest in some opinions on it I could provide a deluge of ideas.

(Also, @Kyouko Tsukino, this is in General Discussions instead of Suggestions & Ideas)