by loftar » Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:21 pm
Well, yes, it is very far from obvious that some item can be used as string, indeed. As for tooltips, even with better text rendering, it would be hard to auto-generate such information, and it would be undesirable to have to maintain it manually.
I think that an improvement of the crafting system which would allow you to choose which items to use for crafting and also display which items were autoselected would be the best way to solve the problem.
"Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing." -- Rob Pike