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Re: LF Yard Tower
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:36:49 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Orion Pobursky wrote:

Also notice that you get almost 2000 pieces but you only use about 1/8th of
them.  I think LEGO would do good to make more bags of less pieces.

This brings up a good point.  I've not tried the software yet, but it seems like
it ought to work like this...

Selecting a piece for a model not only results in the piece being shown in the
model, but results in all of the "extra" pieces from the parts pack being placed
in a list (stick it in a tabbed window, off to the side, or something).  That
way, it would be possible for people to at least attempt to use most of the
pieces in the parts packs.

This could result in a better ratio of parts used versus parts purchased.

Comments?

Jeff



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  Re: LF Yard Tower
 
(...) Yes, something like that is needed, though I think there are other possible ways to handle the UI. For example, it's already showing us an "available" count below each piece — the problem is that this count does not correspond to the actual (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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(...) Also notice that you get almost 2000 pieces but you only use about 1/8th of them. I think LEGO would do good to make more bags of less pieces. -Orion (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)

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