Got some general UI questions:
1) F2: Population and Production screen. Problem: The Population Locations list is pretty annoying once I start working with more a handful of systems. The default sort seems to be highest population first, then a mixed up jumble of colonies with no population. The colonies with no population seems to change order, and I haven't figured out what the sort criteria there is. Its fine when there are only a handful of colonies, but right now I have a large mixed list of populated colonies, mining colonies (fixed and mobile), fuel dumps and locations being surveyed by geological teams. Any time I have to try to find 'Stevenage-C VIII Asteroid #60' I have to manually search through the list to locate it. Painful.
Question: Is there a way to sort the Population Locations list, and is there a way to force it to group by system? Or an existing screen I've overlooked that lets me do something like this?
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2) F12: Task Groups screen. Problem: Like the Population Locations list, the Details and Special Orders: Name dropdown is fine when working with a handful of task groups. But as the fleets grow, the list becomes pretty lengthy, and only a rigidly adhered to name standard allows me to (painfully) find the ship or fleet I need. I tried breaking the ships into multiple Task Forces, slotting all the PDCs and picket task groups out of the default Fleet Headquarters task force and into their own Task Force, for example, but this still leaves me scrolling through all the task groups in all the task forces in one looonnggg dropdown list.
Q: is there a better way? Some screen I missed or something that lets me break the task groups dropdown into a more manageable order or subset?
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Those two are the most used sections of the Aurora UI for me. If there are other options, I'm all ears. There are several other smaller 'quirks' of the UI I find awkward, but I'm (mostly) found ways around them, so I just ignore them. The inability to sort damn near anywhere is probably the most irritating, but I understand Steve has only 24 hours in a day.