UI Glitches

[raynor]

I downloaded Patch #3 because I'd seen some notes on 1.74 and 1.74 about improvements to the use of ENTER and ESC.

There are the UI problems I'm still unhappy with.

When you start a game, you may add five, ten or even twenty custom empires. Then, you have to go in one by one by one and turn on computer control. It would be nice if you could turn them all on at once. But you can't.

So, you click on the first one, you click on 'Edit', you turn on the AI, you click Create. You go back to the list. You click on the second one, you click on 'Edit', you turn on the AI, you click 'Create', you go back to the list. You do this for as many as sixteen more. You start the game. Ooops! You forgot to adjust one of the other setting. So, that 20 minutes was just wasted.

This time, you adjust all your other settting first before adding the empires and turning on computer control. But you just created one empire. But was the Last one the Drushocka or the EEE. I just can't remember. It would be nice if the Last empire you edited was still selected after you create it.

You get into the game and find that you still forgot to turn one on. Sure, you can look at the empire listing and turn them on to computer AI before you press 'End Turn'. I guess that would be better than all the tedium above.

Finally, you get into the game. You go to rename a ship. You type in the name and press 'Enter'. The game just beeps at you. You have to click the mouse somewhere to rename the ship.

You start playing the game. You are building defensive WEP's on a planet using 'Repeat Build'. Then, you clear the queue and start building a Space Port. Nine turns later, you realize that you have three Space Ports.

So, you uninstall the game and wait for Gold Patch 4. Thankfully, MOO III is coming out on Tuesday and Gal Civ a month later.

[ February 22, 2003, 18:58: Message edited by: raynor ]