Move crafting resources

[hickeys]

After some great re-organization, Crafting is now the only section with more than one expandable list. Why not move the resources list somewhere else? Some ideas:

[] Space
[] Crafting
[] Resources
[] Unlocking

or

[] Time Control
[] Crafting Resources
[] Kitten Resources

or a subsection like you did for religion

[] Crafting

   WORKSHOP
                               [enable all] [disable all]
   [] Refine Catnip
   [] Wooden Beam
   [. . .]
   [] Eludium    [] Limited
   [] Thorium    [] Limited

   RESOURCES
                           [add resources] [clear unused]
   manuscript     Stock: 12       Consume 0.60        del
   compendium     Stock: 138      Consume 1.00        del

Or go all out. Replace crafting and resources with a single resources section.

[] Resources

   catnip                    Stock: 1M       Consume 1.00  // Not craftable, is a resource
   wood           [] Craft   Stock: 300k     Consume 0.13  // Craftable, is a resource
   [] wood                   Stock: 300k     Consume 0.13 // Alternate option - checkbox in front
   [] minerals               Stock: 300k     Consume 0.13 // Checkbox grayed out since not craftable?
   [EVERY. SINGLE. RESOURCE.]
   relic                     Stock 100k                    // Keep 100k in reserve before buying cryptos or bcoins
   wrapping paper [] Craft                                 // You craft this by opening present boxes, obviously

This last option is obviously not completely thought out. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.

[hickeys]

For the last option, you could even do things like:

furs         [] auto-hunt             
ships        [] force to 243  
blackcoin    [] auto-trade

[oliversalzburg]

Very good thinking. Thanks for the nice sketches :)

I definitely agree with you that the third panel feels out of place. It's weird how the resources panel and the regular "items" panel flip-flop between each other when the user uses the buttons. I'm not a fan and feel like the behavior is a bit unintuitive.

I had some thoughts on resources as well. Mostly, I don't think the add/remove behavior is really helping users. It's too complicated and resources switch positions in the list when they are added/removed. I was thinking there should be a flat list with all resources that is static. I feel like this combines well with the idea of moving resources to a dedicated panel. One non-obvious reason for this is that the default consume rate of 0.6 is invisible to users unless they add the resource to the list.

Combining the resource control list with the resource craft UI seems like a powerful concept. I like that it puts all the relevant aspects in a single place. So crafting intake and output are visible in a single view.

This seems very in-line with the rewrite/cleanup effort. I'll definitely keep it on my mental list.