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Resource UI order is illogical, Silicon and Chemicals should be swapped

Published on Saturday, February 28, 2015 By _ColdFire_ In Offworld Trading Company

Currently the resources are listed on the left of the screen as:

  • Power
  • Water
  • Food
  • O2
  • Fuel
  • Aluminium
  • Iron
  • Steel
  • Carbon
  • Chem
  • Silicon
  • Glass
  • Electronics

In many respects this order is very well thought out. Power at the top as it is somewhat unique and fundamental, grouped with all the life/colony support resources like Water which leads to Food, O2, and Fuel. Then the metal mines Aluminium and Iron, which leads to Steel.

What should happen next is the two elemental mine resources Carbon and Silicon should be next to each other, leading to the final 3 advanced resources Glass, Chemicals, and Electronics.

Given the care taken for the rest of the ordering, it seems like Silicon and Chemicals should be swapped, to group the elemental mines, and advances resources. The only cost to this is a short adjustment of muscle memory for players, and the earlier in development the smaller and issue this is.