Some suggestions

gbraley · #1 December 6th, 2000, 04:05 PM

Just found this forum, so I thought I'd post a few suggestions for tweaks.

First, in the research screen, allow me to toggle off completed research areas. When I reach mid/late game, I don't want to scroll through several "pages" to get to the ones I want to focus on.

Second, make the next/prev ship arrow stop in a fleet only once. That is, treat all ships in a fleet as one ship for this purpose. When I am trying to get to my 2 new colony ships, I don't like having to go through all 30 of my warships in 3 fleets, although I do want to see each fleet.

Third, when I have conquered another race, and create a colony ship on one of their worlds, the atmosphere type doesn't usually match my own, quite rightly. However, it would be nice to have an indication somewhere of what atmosphere the colonists like, or a warning message when I am about to put colonists onto a non-ideal world. I know I can fix it later, but it gets to be a pain. Is there a better way to do this?

I have more, but those are my big gripes at the moment.

Scott

James Sterrett · #2 December 6th, 2000, 07:10 PM

You can find out what atmosphere a given set of colonists like by right-clicking on them in the cargo manifest. One of the info lines tells you their atmospheric preference.

James Sterrett · #3 December 6th, 2000, 07:15 PM

You can find out what atmosphere a given set of colonists like by right-clicking on them in the cargo manifest. One of the info lines tells you their atmospheric preference.

James Sterrett · #4 December 6th, 2000, 07:15 PM

You can find out what atmosphere a given set of colonists like by right-clicking on them in the cargo manifest. One of the info lines tells you their atmospheric preference.

James Sterrett · #5 December 6th, 2000, 07:19 PM

Sorry about the triple posting. I'm rather unsure what happened there. 8(

PurpleRhino · #6 December 7th, 2000, 02:25 AM

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Second, make the next/prev ship arrow stop in a fleet only once. That is, treat all ships in a fleet as one ship for this purpose. When I am trying to get to my 2 new colony ships, I don't like having to go through all 30 of my warships in 3 fleets, although I do want to see each fleet.

Just use the next fleet command/button.

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Third, when I have conquered another race, and create a colony ship on one of their worlds, the atmosphere type doesn't usually match my own, quite rightly. However, it would be nice to have an indication somewhere of what atmosphere the colonists like, or a warning message when I am about to put colonists onto a non-ideal world. I know I can fix it later, but it gets to be a pain. Is there a better way to do this?

Right click on the portrait to get a description of the race... even works on the mini-portraits.