{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/72","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/72/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/72/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/72/events","html_url":"https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/72","id":98486618,"number":72,"title":"Too hard to track what is going on when several missions are active","user":{"login":"speeder","id":380918,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/380918?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder","html_url":"https://github.com/speeder","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/speeder/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":16,"created_at":"2015-07-31T23:13:54Z","updated_at":"2015-08-04T00:54:23Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I started to be handed the pirate hunt missions...\r\n\r\nI accepted several of them, but there is no clear indication of what ones I already killed the pirate so I can return to the planet that ordered the mission.\r\n\r\nThis is not an issue only with this though, the Free Planets mission to scan all ships in another system I had the same problem, I went there, and scanned all ships I could find, the red marker disappeared, then I flew back, and nothing happened, then I flew AGAIN to the place where I was supposed to go, and scanned much, much more ships, and eventually got a message saying I could go back.\r\n\r\nI think the markers should change (specially because the red markers are also confusing).\r\n\r\nCurrent system:\r\n\r\nGreen: accepted mission\r\nYellow: Mission you can do\r\nOrange: Mission you cannot do\r\nRed: Waypoint\r\n\r\nProblems with it:\r\n\r\ngreen marker in many instances is useless, it only end showing the origin point of the mission\r\nthe yellow marker is mission you can do, orange you can't, and red looks like it would proceed from orange (thus something that maybe you should not do at all).\r\n\r\nMy suggestion:\r\n\r\nblue: accepted\r\nyellow: can do\r\nred: can't do\r\ngreen: \"Go there\", this is where to go next, always, for pirate hunting missions this mean the marker stay blue, until you kill the pirate, then it becomes green, for the scouting missions, the origin marker is blue, and green markers spawn showing where you should go, when it is time to return to the planet, it turns from blue to green.\r\n\r\nAlso I suggested dropping orange for two reasons: one, many people have vision problems and can't see the different between the orange and yellow marker. Second, on some monitors (like my monitor) that are \"budget\", the contrast is low, and the orange and yellow marker look too similar to each other.\r\n\r\nA second suggestion is maybe change the mission text as needed (ie: before killing a pirate it says the current text, after killing the pirate it says you  can go back, also applies to any \"fetch\" mission, like the one to steal a drone scanner)."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/comments/127443526","html_url":"https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/72#issuecomment-127443526","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/72","id":127443526,"user":{"login":"endless-sky","id":11450262,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11450262?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky","html_url":"https://github.com/endless-sky","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/endless-sky/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-04T00:54:23Z","updated_at":"2015-08-04T00:54:23Z","body":"Well, here's what I've switched it to for now:\r\n\r\n![final](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/11450262/9050893/6d192e04-3a21-11e5-87a7-8a0a0d6c3e68.jpg)\r\n\r\nAccording to an online [color blindness simulator](http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/), that color scheme ought to allow both red-green and blue-yellow color blind people to distinguish between the three different hues. I also switched the pointers back to \"fading out\" at the far end, but still with the tapered effect because I think it looks more interesting than a plain triangle."}}