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Same style for shown values of money in VAB


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In VAB make Cost meter and avaiable funds meter in same format. Right now, even single digits arent above its respective others, so figuring if my cost is less/more and how much do I have left need reading both values everytime and estimating it in mind, instead of single glance on counters and seeing, that left most digit of cost is more to the right than left most digit of avaiable funds, so I can add much more parts

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Yep, I posted this in that sneak peak video a few days ago, but it got buried:

Also one thing I noted, in the VAB, with the funds counter at the bottom right, they didn't seem to be lined up the same. It looked like:


39576.56
4315245

It's a slight niggle but wouldn't it make more sense to line them up so we can immediately see which one's bigger? Maybe it was the youtube quality, but having to parse the different decimal places in the figures as well as actually reading them takes longer than just seeing if 3 is bigger than 2. Not to mention they're different fonts and have different spacing. In essence, I'm just saying that this:


39576.56
4315245.00

Is easier and quicker to parse.

Completely agree with OP.

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This is an perfect Example for an little thing were everybody say's yahhh is in 1 Minute done we do this at the end.

Then it becomes forgotten because everybody works with the little format issue and become accustomed to this. ;)

Happens more than you think in development!

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Why would you have different styles in the first place? Its not only a different style but also seems to be a different number format - wth O_o

Different styles looks nice so it's not a grid of either white squares with black numbers, or green LCD style numbers. Different fonts and colors breaks it up visually and allows you to put them in perfect columns without making it into a number grid.

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