I am sure this has been asked before and I apologise if it has, but I was wondering if anyone has tried to mod in a new UI? If not is that because Steve does not want anyone tinkering with his code (which is fair) or because no one wants to attempt it etc.
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A pity there is not some sort of work being done to upgrade the interface, a kind of roundtable where Steve ultimately guides it in the direction he wants but perhaps delegating work to others.
I agree.
Dwarf fortress works much in this way, a very small team that focuses on the core game, and a myriad of interface mods and plugins that present that core info and let you manipulate it in efficient ways (interface). Id guess that 90% of the players probably use some kind of interface mod.
I think Aurora could gain alot of fans that currently wouldn't be the slightest interested due to lack of graphics if a similar approach could be taken for Aurora.
The biggest interface improvement I would want is a starmap and galaxy map rolled into the same + mousewheel scroll zoom. Ideally you just click on a system in the galaxy map to jump to that starmap and click a button to zoom back out.