Two words only:

Thank you

It is gratifying to see the developers continuing to put effort into correcting/enhancing the game. It does seem to me that this is not the norm among some of the larger game companies. Can anyone say Master of Orion 3?

I am completely convinced that this is a complicated piece of software with I'm guessing hundreds of thousands of lines of code. It has to be extremely easy for some errors to simply not get caught during testing. Continue the great work, please!

Is there some central place to post a list of cosmetic/annoyance bugs that will be reviewed by the programming staff?

Is there an explanation for why the AI doesn't seem to, if I've read some of the posts correctly, initialize properly?

Good luck on your quest to slay those sneaky, elusive, pesky bugs!

Thank you.

MY UI SUGGESTION FOR 1.2 :

You see that "goto" button, in the window that appears when you finished building a ship? Well, please make this button so that it centers the strategic view on the planet that just built the ship. For the moment, it goes to the shipyard, which is completely useless. Even more, when you leave the shipyard, you aren't even centered on the building planet ; the view just returns where you were.

* Auto-Focus on next availabe Ship with Moves ** OMG! Perhaps I never payed attention…perhaps it’s worse playing on a large Galaxy…I don’t know, but I wanted to KILL auto-focus half-way through my last game. Cari’s currently turning this into an option…one that I will promptly disable.

Oh joy, oh joy.

You my friend are now officially my god.


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A new option I would like would be the possibility to make ship moves instantaneous. Especially on larger maps it can take quite some time to move your ships, especially if you have dozens of 50 movement constructors...

Keep up to good work.

Ugrok: I'll bring that up to the team, but note that you're taken to the shipyard for the purpose of selecting a new design if you wish. I do like the idea of centering on the planet though.

Vandenburg: Cari's your new diety, not me My office-wise cursing at the feature was just the straw that broke the camels back. She's the one that knew how to fix it.

I also like your suggestion on instant movement on ships (very useful on those gigantic galaxies)...that was something else I ment to list but forgot to. Thanks for reminding me

As for saving clicks, I like the proposed changes, but I would like to add...

Colony ships...When I pull up the Planet Screen to see the Unowned Planets, if I click on one to move the screen to it, might it be possible not to de-select my colony ship? I hate having to click the find button a few times until I find my colony ship again.

Also, finding starbases are a nightmare for me on gigantic maps. The mini map is useless for this as you can't show just starbases (if there is a way, I can't find it). The Starbase Screen (planet screen) list all starbases on the map, so finding mine becomes almost impossible. Then once I find them I have the same problem as I did with colony ships, the constructor has been de-selected so I have to track them back down while trying to remember which starbase I had that can be upgraded. (not to mention the fact that you cant tell what upgrades you have or haven't got on the SB.)

All in all I enjoy the game, but those two are annoyances to me.

Thanks for the continued support for the game!

I hope that some consideration will be given to add some starbase management tools. Many have been mentioned.

I am of course speaking of some kind of auto upgrade option or an icon that tells you a starbase has improvements available.

Thanks for the efforts so far.

** Colony Management List ** Added shield so you know what planets are defended. Tweaked income display to now display Net Income instead of plain ol’ income…should be more useful. Also tweaked the list so it shouldn’t reset to the top when returning from the Planet Screen.

What means net income? Tax income minus expenses for the planet? I'm not sure if this is really useful, but I wouldn't mind either.

One suggestion regarding the colony management: Please implement some kind of quick build function or list for planets in the colony list, similar to the one for ships (I know there are problems because of the tiles, but I'm sure there are possibilities).
And please include some kind of "decomission all buildings" and/or "delete all ongoing improvements" for planets, too. It's always a clickfest to shape conq... - ahem - liberated planets to your liking. Thank you.

Oh, two more things for the colony list: It would be nice to have an indicator when a planet has empty tiles, it could save a lot of time on larger maps. Maybe an extra column with the number of empty tiles right next to the planet quality would be the best idea.

The other thing would be a highlighting of the planet's production/research focus, and the ability to change that directly on the list (right-click, maybe).

Please the most anoying thing i am finding is when i want to upgrade ships in the shipyard, the little icons that tell you what the ship has are almost useless, their is no text or info and makes it very hard to work out what level of the item you have in your ship, I strart taking ages to remove and check what the item is and what level and space it takes up. Upgrading is becomeing such a pain and time consuming, Can you have a description or some pop up screen that tell you the information you need when the mouse goes over the items in your ship.
That would be the biggest improvement to the game.

** Colony Management List **
It would be nice to be able to focus the different planets on military/social/research here.

It's a start, but I can certainly think of a lot more obvious changes or additions required before the UI is truly friendly and easy to use

https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=274&AID=111357

I've identified a further 20 or so issues since forming that list of 48, but there's not much pointing stopping my game to keep taking notes until some of the issues I had listed are fixed.

Starheaven does have a point. In the shipbuilder it would also be nice to have the ability to Remove stacked items. Like if I change my mind, if I want to remove something and other pieces are attached to it, maybe give a warning/prompt but if answered yes, remove everything.

Also, obsolete should give a prompt in case of accidental clicking or maybe a list of obsolete ships in case you want to pull one out of mothball status.

The thing that annoys me a lot is that there is no "run all automated orders button".
I mean, since most goto orders take not "integer" number of turns turns, but between x and x+1 turns (like 5.4weeks), that means that since goto-orders are done at the end of the turn, you will effectively have unused movment points in last autopilot turn (no way to spend them since goto is done at the end of the turn).

If there was a button to force goto for all units, before end of the turn, i could see if some unit has finished its autopilot and spend remaining movement points.

p22: I'm not a 100% but I think thats what the
"skip moves left over from autopilot"
option does. Uncheck it and you are good to go