EPTCore Interface Improvements:
Output Data Customization:
While I think that the idea of the 4 outputs from EvoChamber are nice, I think that the best angle to emulate output would be like sc2gears and how it's fully customizable to a person's needs. Have default ones you can choose with bullets and it will change the default, or have the ability to save your own.
Example:
^T: ^m^g^e^S - ^A (Full output filter)
^S - ^A (Simple Output Filter)
^S - ^A [^m^g] (Someone's idea of a better simple output filter)
Add color to Output
I think that adding some basic color coding would help it's readability quite well. Have it as an option because some would find it distracting. Just a checkbox to add it and remove it would be great. Two things to consider, coloring the "Min/Gas/Energy/Supply". Also Coloring entire rows for common actions, such as "Build Probe" in a faded color to allow the core parts of the build to be more prominent, or specifically coloring "chrono actions" in a different non-distracting shade of pink/purple.
Later on this feature can be exanded upon if you cared to allow people to add their own colors to the filtering if you deemed it worthwhile.
Inherit Previous Waypoints Visually
Sometimes when working with waypoints it can be confusing when a build doesn't work and suddenly you find yourself trying to find the issue. A way to fix this would to be inheriting previous waypoints and their data on later waypoint screens. You can do this by simply having it show as a grey number of the accumulated total so far. Merely a visual/user ease feature which would add a LOT of polish.
Example: Waypoint 1 has 1 zealot. Waypoint 2 has 1 stalker. On the Waypoint 2 screen, it will show a grey number 1 for "zealot" as it's on a previous waypoint. If you try to change the number one, there is no problem, but if you put 1 or less it will change to a grey one, signifying what's been previously entered.
Long Term Polish: Improved "ability" interface with graphics
Add small icons for each ability you'd click on. The border of the icon would tell what you'd want.
No border - Unchecked and unneccessary
Green Border - Checked on this waypoint
Grey Border - Checked on previous waypoint
Obviously you'd need them as words first, but down the road the ability to have the icons before or after the names may prove to be more user friendly.
Feature Suggestions:
Sort Builds for future load
The ability to have a basic container that you can add a saved build to, and choose a container to open would be great. Default Containers would be Terran/Protoss/Zerg. But you could create/add your own. All it would be is a simple file that opens a list of build orders you've assigned it to. You can also setup the default container to load upon startup.
Add logic to the unit/building entry fields
It would be nice to allow logic to be added before the numbers in some cases, if no logic exists, it will assume "Greater than or equal to". This way you can not only use this tool to create the most efficient build order, but also compare poorer build orders to efficient ones. This way you could actually RESEARCH using this to see why you don't want to do other features. The bottom two examples would show how you could use this to obtain data for your own research of builds, not just what's considered the "most efficient" as they would have good chances to obtain different results. These results could help people brainstorm more possibilities than what you can obtain them so far, expanding it's uses quite so.
Example:
[ 30 probes ][ 30 probes; =0 assimilators ]
[ =1 Nexus; 30 DT] [ 1 Nexus; 30 DT ]
Long Term Suggestion: Allow submitted build times for comparison of your build.
Assuming your build order tester evolves, I think it would be nice to have a small list of "VERY COMMON timings" that you could have pop up on demand with a button. Examples are the timing of a 6 pool, 10 pool, basic timing pushes, etc. They could be "default saved build orders" which you could use to find out efficient "Target times" for your waypoints or finals. It could even go so far as to allow a dropdown to select the timings for your needs, such as: 00:40 - Worker rush, 5:30 - 7 Roach Rush; 05:49: DT rush.
[u]Reset button[u]
Add a reset button not only for the current tab, but for all tabs as well.
Time since last Build Order Change
Adding a "time since last build order change" field would be nice for us to judge whether it's done or not. With EvoChamber I found this useful cause when it hit 2 minutes I'd consider it an "acceptable" build. It could easily be added to the top fields.
Yabot Formatting
I found Yabot formatting very useful in EvoChamber and would like to see it put in here. (Looks up "Yet another build order tester") Only suggestion is to ensure it doesn't do the "monotonous" actions, such as all the "Build Drones".
More to come if you like this...
