I see our focus on UI issues is a good thing

The game is 99% UI manipulation. Where as something like WC3 (WarCraft 3) is 75-99% manipulating the units one the main screen to play (the rest being minimap hits and and some other minor things), GalCiv2 is 99% manipulating screens and sliders etc to play. We don't really directly manipulate units especially the more you play. Rally points and other screen do this for you. So really the UI is THE most important aspect in a game.

So anyhow THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH for adressing the UI issues.

We ALL appreciate it

Sitting here re-reading my UI goodness that will soon be given unto me (and drooling madly) I am curious though as to why these things have been brought up before many times in the forums but ONLY got changed/addressed when it affected someone at the Company?

Especially the Auto-Focus...

This apparenlty annoys 100 people but it doesnt annoy me so let's leave it.
I mean the CUSTOMERS are the ones paying your salaries

I'm not trying to be a smart ass or cynical but I am truly curious...

wow... nice!


Nothing to add, just waiting now....

Keep on rocking in the free world.

Yey!!

Would it also be possible for the "Upgrade" section of the Shipyard (f7) to include mouse-over indications of what those units ARE which we may delete or move? (Or have a little tiny text-box section somewhere in which these indications may appear?)

Ok, first, very nice changes. Don't play really large galaxies much, but some of them will really come in handy.

Now, any chance you can put in icons that show planets/ships/trade routes that are affected by starbases? Nothing too fancy, although having a line+anchor that goes back to the starbase(s) that affect the ship/planet/route would be really neat.

"Also tweaked the list so it shouldn’t reset to the top when returning from the Planet Screen."

Agh! That brings a tear to me eye, it does!

Frogboy, any idea on when the Dreadlords will become a fully playable race? I don't know if many people are looking forward to that, but I definitely am. It'd be fun to be the bad guy for a change.

Great work!

No more auto focus..... so there is a god after all

You also made the wife & the cat a very very happy - no more of my expletives, strident mutterings and random frustration induced swipes at the cat while fighting GalCiv auto focus

Simply put - you're my Hero. May the Gods shower you with Gifts and Tokens of Reward from On High - double Bonus this FY would be a good start !

Regards
Zy

Ack - sorry about the double post forgot a suggested tweek amid the auto focus euphoria

I play Gigantic maps a lot, and therefore mainly use the reduced graphics zoomed out interface. The anomalies are represented by an ASCI star - the same white star whether its a 'normal' anomaly or a black hole - the end result being I'm often off on a mandatory spin across the Galaxy as I did not zoom in to check if that particular anomalies in the full graphics display was a black hole. Obviously the remedy is always check before opening it, but there are dozens/hundreds of the suckers in a Gigantic map, and its too easy to hit 'auto-mode', forget, and of course Sods Law operates in that the only time you get caught (and of course are dumped 'out of range' at destination) is when you don’t check ....

It could be sorted easily by making the ASCI star a different colour when it’s a black hole - it would save a hell of a lot of very boring repeat zooming in out just to check what it was.

Regards
Zy

Before v1.11 when you had moves left after auto orders where done the ship with moves left was autofocused.

It's the option "skip moves left over from auto pilot".

I would also find a keyboard command and/or button to "find ship/fleet with moves left" useful.

Tab-key.

Now, any chance you can put in icons that show planets/ships/trade routes that are affected by starbases? Nothing too fancy, although having a line+anchor that goes back to the starbase(s) that affect the ship/planet/route would be really neat.

Starbase range is shown already when you highlight the base. Additionally you can see the starbase effects in the planet "details".

All great suggestions...I'm formulating my list and will email it off to the team on Monday so see what can be done without forcing 1.2 to be released in August

Rouge Metro: I know it looks that way, and I appologize that alot of these things have gone un-tweaked until now (when we finally started to feel their pain of their bite), but there was never a time set aside for focusing on JUST UI tweaks.

Many of these items were noted, and planned to be fixed, but always got overwhelmed by real bugs (the memory leak, for example ), and sometimes were fogotten after that. But no more...UI oddities have become too comfortable in the game...soon they will all be hunted down like the vermin they are! We will be victorious!!!! 

Ummm will we see the fix for 'Set Homeworld' button please?? This 'bug' has been in place since the game was launched and i for one have requested it to be fixed on each build since then.

PLEASE PLEASE fix it or remove the darn button. If i find a nice class 26 planet i want to be able to set the place as my new homeworld and not as of now click the button and then evacuate 'Earth' (or chosen planet) then destroy the colony there to make the game realise i have moved the capital Please guys get this fixed!!!

Oh and one last thing

Get the alignment colors sorted here in the website!! I mean Grey for Very Good???? Surely its grey for Neutral????

Just one more thing, maybe something for your growing list, BoogieBac

If one attacks a planet without fleet manager, it isn't really fun to click around several times to destroy every single ship in orbit. Would be nice, if a little pop-up could appear to ask the player, if he wants to continue his attack or stop it and move on as long as movement points or defenders in orbit are left.