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Old 03-18-2003, 08:49 AM   #9
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1. Cycle/Change the fish after a fixed length of time, say every 10 or 20 minutes (same as pressing SPACE bar twice)

2. Create your own "tanks" (preset selections of fish/settings) (not to be confused with moving/adjusting coral)

3. Favorite Fish - Control the likelihood of each fish being chosen to fill slots. Either choices of Rarely, Seldom, Sometimes, Often, or a slider from Less Often to More Often.

In After Dark, these were labeled "Never, Seldom, Often, Always", but this could create confusion if a user has a Yellow Tang manually selected and then sets the yellow tang to 'Never', expecting to never see a Yellow Tang (they would still get the 1 they manually selected).

The alternate is to have a checkbox "Use Advanced Fish Selection" which would eliminate the 7 fish slots and rely exclusively on "Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often, Always".

4. Set Starfish Position - drag the Starfish around in a mock thumbnail Aquarium to one of a dozen preset positions including positions on the glass and also "hidden".

I found this four as the important to implement.
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