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. I second, third, and fourth this suggestion.

Now this i would pay money for!!

A couple of suggestion I have are:

Move the done button from the battle viewer from off of top of the turn button. I have more than once double click on the done button or when doing several battles and getting ahead of myself and hit the turn button before I should.

Also give me numeric inputs for all sliders. Some of us like using the keyboard over the mouse. This is especially important in the trading window for money and influence especially when these get very high and the slider is not fine tuned enough to let me use 1001 influence points in my trade

One thing I would like to see is an improved "Find" option for planets on the main map or an option to click on the name of the planet on the colonies screen and be taken to the galaxy map.

I can't count how many times I have tried to find a planet that just reported a message, only to give up in frustration.

Oh, and thanks for making a game that is so good people care enough to spend a lot of time coming up with suggestions to try and improve it!!!

There has to be a way to ease making a large amount of starbases in the later games ...

a few ideas i had:

* new option - Any constructors sent to a waypoint placed on a starbase will auto upgrade the starbase (even the items that normaly promt a cost)

* allow users to tick check boxes for auto-starbase upgrades. kinda like the ship builder you can design a template for a starbase upgrade paths (say an checkbox for sensor upgrades and a checkbox for starbase defence upgrades and a checkbox for production upgrades etc)

* change the AI on ships with constructor modules so that if set to (new option, or co-opt explore), they will seek out any starbase that can be upgraded and upgrade it for you without any prompt.


The best result for me, would be if i could make 10 different constructors, build 10 starbases (different types), then the next 100 constructors i make will seek-out and upgrade my starbases for me (according to my preferences), without having to do anything except setting planets to construct them.

Also give me numeric inputs for all sliders. Some of us like using the keyboard over the mouse. This is especially important in the trading window for money and influence especially when these get very high and the slider is not fine tuned enough to let me use 1001 influence points in my trade

This is already available. Just click in the box and type the value you want. This worked with GC1 as well.

Hi!
In a game with disabled tech trading I can see in the diplomacy window the info on AIs tech. Can you made a sub-list of techs my race doesn't have but they do? Or print techs they have and my race doesn't in a different color? Or just get techs back on a "trade" window, but disable the ability to trade them?

BR, Iztok

A good suggestion, Iztok Bitenc!
The tech list in the "foreign report" window is too complex once many techs are around.

It's simply a mess. If it was one tech per line it would be at least readable.
But best would be to just list techs we don't have and techs they don't have, like it is in diplomacy window.

The UI isn't that bad, as far as I use it. However, there is one thing that I recently noticed-when I send out ships with weapons on auto-exploration, they often run into other vessels and stations. The problem with that? When I'm allied or when the Trade Federation is in effect, I get this popup window that comes right back up ever single time I close it warning me not to attack it, and the only way out of it is either to disable auto-explore (if it's selected) or to just keep hitting escape until it goes away on its own. That is the single most annoying thing that I may have ever seen in a game, most probably.

Thanks for letting me know. I tried it but must of clicked at the wrong place. I will try it again next time I play.(keyboarding numbers for sliders on trading screen)

Hey Gang,

Just wanted to let you know that we're plugging away at the UI list as we speek. SOme new welcome additions include...

-Colony Management List: Ability to toggle production focus
-Colony Management List:Number of open tiles on a planet dicplayed next to class - ex: 10 (2)
-Colony Management List:Pressing the T button on this screen will let you set the rally point of the selected colony (also works on the colony details and planet screen)

-Planet Wnd: Can now delete projects using delete key, also can decomission imps being upgraded with the Decomission bulldozer.
-Planet Wnd: Max possible population listed.

-Can select a planet without seleted ship being de-selected (for colony and invasion purposes)
-Differect Anomaly color on tactics window for Wormholes.
-Option to move camera to selected planet on the colony management list.

Alot of these changes have made gigantic games considerably easier to play. We're going to keep working on the UI and I'll have more to report later!

Thanks for all the suggestions!

On thing I forgot to ask.
Please add "tooltip" breakdown for social production, research and some other things in planet screen, like it already exist for military production, influence and approval. It would really be handy.

* new option - Any constructors sent to a waypoint placed on a starbase will auto upgrade the starbase (even the items that normaly promt a cost) * allow users to tick check boxes for auto-starbase upgrades. kinda like the ship builder you can design a template for a starbase upgrade paths (say an checkbox for sensor upgrades and a checkbox for starbase defence upgrades and a checkbox for production upgrades etc) * change the AI on ships with constructor modules so that if set to (new option, or co-opt explore), they will seek out any starbase that can be upgraded and upgrade it for you without any prompt. The best result for me, would be if i could make 10 different constructors, build 10 starbases (different types), then the next 100 constructors i make will seek-out and upgrade my starbases for me (according to my preferences), without having to do anything except setting planets to construct them.

Great ideas and imho a must for late games. Having to upgrade 50+ starbases is quite a chore. (I nowadays just play evil so I don't have to press ok for the star bases fees everytime i upgrade one of them...)

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Good list BoogieBac, hope you will continue to improve the UI. Looks like the next patch (patches) will be great.

BoogieBac, the list simply sounds great!
Keep posting, we won't move.

A log of events that you can reference. You currently only get one chance to read the fact that the Drengins built the Restaurant of the Universe wonder, for example. It would be good to have a scrollable window where you could look back at the history of achievements.