C# Suggestions

[Kristover]

There should be some way to avoid opening up multiple instances of a single windows (ex. multiple ground forces windows), and when one clicks the button on the system view top bar, it should bring forward the corresponding window (like in VB6)

Yeah, that has been an annoyance when after an hour of clicking I hover over the task bar and see twenty instances of the same window open.

[nhb1986]

Regarding Medals.

So far it seems the Auto Assignment is working great and the variety of Triggers is great.  But it seems that multiple conditions are always OR, so just one of the Triggers will trigger the medal

Can we get an AND logic connection for multiple triggers?

E. g. 

10. 000 research points to achieve "Nobel Prize Nominee"
10. 000 research points + 20 years of Service both required to achieve Medal "Nobel Prize Winner"

[nhb1986]

There should be some way to avoid opening up multiple instances of a single windows (ex.  multiple ground forces windows), and when one clicks the button on the system view top bar, it should bring forward the corresponding window (like in VB6)

Yeah, that has been an annoyance when after an hour of clicking I hover over the task bar and see twenty instances of the same window open.

Or maybe a "close all" Button (except for the Main Game Window of course) OpenTTD does this nicely with the "Delete" Hotkey

[sloanjh]

No, it's a terrible idea.  Then we'd be right back where we were before, where 90% of the officer corps would retire before the first ship was launched.

And what's wrong with it? Starting with aerospace forces, they nearly should retire before the first ship was launched, younger ones will get their places, that's ok.

Steve could run a simple side game with only the player empire and no NPR for a few hundred years to get the steady-state officer age distribution.  He might need to turn off "up or out", but that should give a good distribution for at-start.

John

[Jorgen_CAB]

I found out that the Escort functionality of VB6 is not present in C#... I would really like to have some of that functionality in C# as well.

Being able to move entire formations using escort orders and have your escort ships move along specific set distances and direction from a main force is very useful. It is practically mandatory to manage large complex fleet formations and with the changes to sensors it is even more important in C# I think.

So when there is time I hope you add the Escort functionality back into the game, perhaps even expanding on it a bit too.

[smoelf]

There should be some way to avoid opening up multiple instances of a single windows (ex.  multiple ground forces windows), and when one clicks the button on the system view top bar, it should bring forward the corresponding window (like in VB6)

Yeah, that has been an annoyance when after an hour of clicking I hover over the task bar and see twenty instances of the same window open.

Or maybe a "close all" Button (except for the Main Game Window of course) OpenTTD does this nicely with the "Delete" Hotkey

I would prefer a 'Close All' button. I remember seeing somewhere that having multiple instances of the same window was specifically implented as an improvement, so it's unlikely to be removed again. There are situations where it can be immensely useful, like trying to design multiple ships at the same time (like making a fighter and a carrier or a squad with command ship, escort, and main armament) or some technologies that are interdependent (designing active sensor and fire control in two different windows). This is definitely an improvement over VB6 where you had to deside on parameters before creating the technology.

[Garfunkel]

Maybe it could be made that Left-Click activates already existing window and Right-Click opens a new instance of that window. Then we could have both!

[firsal]

Also a tiny nitpick, it would be cool if the sort buttons on the ground forces screen also work on the hierarchy panel on the left, when the option to display elements is enabled

EDIT: Might as well add this on here, to avoid spamming up this thread

It would also be nice to have the Production Overview screen from VB6, which showed ongoing production/shipbuilding/research tasks, the time to complete them, where they were happening, etc... it was a neat little window where one could keep track of an entire empire's industry and research.

[Shadow]

It'd be ideal if the interface icons could be externalized, so we could customize them like we do race, ship, station and flag images.

I have plans.

[Doren]

It would be nice if "In Overhaul" was painted red for readability and to be easier to spot on fleet screen.

[Vivalas]

Would be neat if hangars had a tech associated with them called "Launch operations". To avoid making hangars a designed component it could just be a racial tech, but would just change the number of fighters you can launch in a minute. Say, starting at 100t/min at lower techs and rising to maybe 1000t / min at the highest techs.

would add a little more in terms of immersion along with the new refueling and ordnance transfer rules so you don't have all of your fighters just pop out at once

[Kelewan]

Regarding Known Issues with  the date format and the decimal separator, can you override the value in aurora.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.globalization.cultureinfo.currentculture?view=netframework-4.8

[Wieseltrupp]

It would be nice if the design of a new component with the [CREATE] Button would also create a Research Prototype

[Scorchicus]

Currently, only lasers have enough tech levels to let your racial weapons level keep up with racial armour level at maxtech, meaning that to fully upgrade your ground weapons, you have to fully research lasers.

Specifically, lasers have 12 levels, particle beams have 11 and both railguns and plasma carronades have 10.

I'm suggesting that the tech branches without 12 tech levels either have some techs introduced to make 12, their racial weapon level bumped slightly so they reach the same racial weapons level at maxtech, or have racial weapon level based off of the capacitor recharge rate tech, since that's required for all of the primary energy weapons anyway.

[Jaz010]

Hi 
I may be missing something,  is there a way to see the available percentage of unused construction factories.  Am always opening a calculator and adding the percentages to determine  how much I have available. 
Also a neet feature would be not only to fix the percentage , but the number of items you want built per year .   (For example 12 mines per year) and the percentage changes accordingly.