Interface improvements

[macross]

Hi.

Just bought this game at Fry's and started playing it. I like it!

After playing for a while, though, there are some interface improvements I'd like to suggest that would just make life a lot better.

I don't know if things like this have been suggested before but I browsed through the forum a bit and didn't see anything, so here are my ideas:

The Colony Window - why is it two clicks to get to each area? Seeing how often we use this window, there's a lot of extra mousing and clicking going on here. Couldn't each area (Galactic News Center, Terran Contact, etc) just be a button? Also, it would be great if right-clicking the mouse was the same as pressing the "close" button. These two things would cut way down on unnecessary mousing and clicking, and would speed up the interface too.

The Jobs Window / Commerce Guild - it sure would be great if, when you had this window open your mission list window would open off to the side. That way I could see where I'm headed next which helps me decide which jobs are best. As it stands currently you have to quit all the way back to your ship to bring up the mission list.

If you didn't use the Colony Window of the Job Window very often these things wouldn't be an issue, but you can use them hundreds of times in a session, and making these little changes would give the interface a slicker feel, and help prevent RSI issues!

Thanks for your time.
Macross