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1664 days, 4 hours, 59 minutes ago

Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on...

Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on planets it isn't obvious a capital 'i' and lowercase 'l' are in fact different.

Is this just my settings or is it hard to tell for others?

1664 days, 4 hours, 51 minutes ago

RE: Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on...

It's the font Joshua specified in the CSS file. For FC fields, he should specify a fixed-width font.

1664 days, 3 hours, 34 minutes ago

RE: Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on...

I agree. Ideally, the Friendly Code should be displayed in Courier (or similar).

1664 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes ago

RE: Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on...

I use this so when my planets have no defenses it is not obvious what the code is.

lol, IoI, loI, and Iol

all look like lol. Nice trick, huh?

1664 days, 0 hours, 35 minutes ago

RE: Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on...

Sorry, when I typed them they were correct, but got all converted to lol upon posting. That was:

"small ell,small oh. small el"
'small ell, small oh, capital eye"
'capital eye, small oh, capital eye"
capital eye, small oh, capital eye"

1664 days, 0 hours, 31 minutes ago

RE: Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on...

Sorry again, just woke up, need tea...

That last one should have been:

"capital eye, small oh, small ell"

Haven't checked out whether the small oh and graphic "bullet" are also identical as well.

1664 days, 0 hours, 28 minutes ago

RE: Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on...

experienced cmdrs will copy the FC and change the font in an external application like wordpad et al :-)

Raise the hurdle, but not too much :-)

1663 days, 22 hours, 26 minutes ago

RE: Wow, never realized that in the friendly code box on...

Hail,

Its not just the friendly codes. I have a hard time distinguishing between the 5 and 6 when setting a waypoint of 81.5 LY or 81.6 LY for instance. To my eyes they look pretty similar and even zooming up the map keeps them small. I guess reading glasses :)

I was testing how far a normal ship could move in one turn. For most ships its 81.5 LY. However, depending on vector, it is sometimes only 81.4 LY. I think this is the same issue with respect to traversing a minefield where some vectors (ie diagonal) cause more odds of a minehit then moving in a straight line as more grids are traversed)

Cheers,

MEGA