2.3 Suggestions

[Erik L (OP)]

Very very low priority.

Have the game on New Game creation, select a random starting year between say 2000 and 2500. Of course, leave the field to be modifyable still.

[Erik L (OP)]

Put a limit to the distance on the potential colony screen. It's depressing to see a 0.2 cost colony 22,000 AU from the primary

[Steve Walmsley]

Move the Geo Status button off the F9 screen. Mining tab of F2 would be nice

Its also on the System Map window in v2.3. I have added it to the F2 window for v2.4

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

Don't show Jump Gate components in the build queue until at least the first level of the construction component is researched.

I have added this to v2.4. A side-effect is that I have added code to restrict which planetary installations can be built, based on tech research. At the moment it is only jump gate components, which are linked to Jump Gate Construction Module 180. However, I could add tech requirements for other installations. For example, I think I will probably add an Improved Command and Control tech, which will be needed before you can build Sector Commands. I probably should link Fighter Factories to Fighter Design too but that will screw up the initial Create Race code.

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

Put a limit to the distance on the potential colony screen. It's depressing to see a 0.2 cost colony 22,000 AU from the primary

I have added an "Exclude Planets over 100 AU" option.

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

Population and Production -> Shipyard tab: Set the default fleet to Shipyard TG.

Pete

Better - allow us to designate a default fleet for each planet (or shipyard under the new rules).

Once you have more than 1 planet building ships it'll get real annoying for the second one to always be trying to add new ships to the fleet in the first system (or no fleet at all...)

You can set a default fleet for each shipyard in v2.4

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

Option in the Commander search by ability to show only unassigned officers.

Added for v2.4

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

Add Terraformer Installations to the planetary SM mods page (sorry if I missed a reason why they aren't there posted on the boards).  

Either include a sector command on the home world, or allow one to be added by the SM...

Both of these have been added to the SM Mods window for v2.4

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

On the Ship text export button, maybe give an option to export with BBCode embedded, replacing the dashed lines with

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Good idea! I have added a question after you hit the button, allowing the BBcode instead. Here is the first result of that change, using a single cut and paste from the text file to this post:

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Hugin class Geosurvey Ship    2800 tons     220 Crew     488 BP      TCS 56  TH 100  EM 0
1785 km/s     Armour 1     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/0/0/0/3     Damage Control 0-0     PPV 0
Replacement Parts 5    

Nuclear Thermal Engine  (4)    Power 25    Efficiency 0.80    Signature 25    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres    Range 96.4 billion km   (625 days at full power)

Geological Survey Sensors (3)   3 Survey Points


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[Steve Walmsley]

Why not HTML encoding of the ship list? That would be real sweet  

I have never used HTML, but if you tell me how I can take a look at it.

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

2 suggestions:

1) On the galactic map, color the "WP Survey not complete" circle and the "jump gates in place" line in "WP Orange" from the system map.  Which will help to reinforce the WP stuff is orange.  (You might want to define the color as a constant then just use the constant, that way if you change your mind, you only have to change 1 color instead of searching for all the places you use it).  This is a low-priority suggestion.

I have changed the number icon showing the number of unexplored WP, the circle showing unexplored WP and the jump gate lines to "WP Orange".

Steve

[Erik L (OP)]

de-stickying.