Semi-Official 6.x Suggestion Thread

[Rich.h]

It would be handy to have a couple of extra filters for the events window. We already have one for command assignments but there times where I would like to see some assignments. If possible it would be useful to be able to have different command assignment types filters, so I could have a filter for ground troops, a filter for commercial ships, and a filter for military ships.

[83athom]

Would it be possible/Steve-be-willing to add an AOE warhead to the game like the Continuous-rod warhead (annular blast fragmentation)? Except with nuclear/antimatter equivalent, kind of like the Diamondback missile (prototype nuclear sidewinder variant). Also, possibly a proximity fuse to go along with it so even if you miss you might get a slight boost to your chance at a hit (like a reroll or a +xx%).
Pros; AOE damage, Some damage is done even if shot down at close range(possibly), Actual mines that don't just fire another missile (but a lot more ineffective), Can hit multiple ships in a TG. Effective against; Light Fighters, Drones, Missiles, lightly armored ships (civilian, recon, commercial, civilian, etc)
Cons;Reduced damage per warhead msp, Reduced damage per distance.

Possibly it could go something like this;
Targeted ship; when the normal rolls to see if you hit or not, If it fails roll again with the same chances and if that hits do 50%-75% damage (passing both does nothing extra)
Ships in TG; Roll twice, if both pass do 50%-75% damage, if one passes do 25%-50% damage, and if all fail do nothing
Ships within a set of range (idk, maybe 5000 km?); Divide CtH by 2 and roll, if pass do 10%-25% damage.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

If you look at the newtonian aurora mechanics documents, you can see steve's design for AOE high-power nukes

[backstab]

I'd like to see the ability to name colonies.  I have a power on a planet that has taken multiple colonies from various other nations and it is getting hard to determine which prior colony is which.

[MarcAFK]

Am I blind or is there no easy way to sort through a bazillion contacts on the system menu?
I would love clicking on a contact on the list to recenter the window to its location. There's a Russian colony somewhere I'm at a loss to find, it may be on the moon.
Ok I can see it on the system information menu, but it would be helpful for sorting through ships too.
Another suggestion, allow permanent research/wealth/industry/population growth etc bonuses to be set for an empire when it's first created.

[83athom]

I'd like to see the ability to name colonies.  I have a power on a planet that has taken multiple colonies from various other nations and it is getting hard to determine which prior colony is which.

Can't you already do that? On the bottom bar of the summary screen there is a button called "Rename".

[swarm_sadist]

Can't you already do that? On the bottom bar of the summary screen there is a button called "Rename".

That renames the whole planet. When there are multiple colonies on the planet from occupation and surrender, they just rename themselves to whatever the planet is named. Therefor you would have 2+ colonies named "Earth". He wants to be able to rename just the colony.

[MarcAFK]

A default order for task force training would be excellent, combined with making a fleet receiving conditional orders not cause an interrupt would make my game run smoother.
At the moment half my interrupts are from training squadrons announcing they're going back to earth to refuel, then later that they have done so and are waiting for new orders.
Ideally I should be able to automate a squadron for training, refuelling then training again and get no interrupts until either the entire fleet reaches 100% or they start getting maintenance failures.

[linkxsc]

A default order for task force training would be excellent, combined with making a fleet receiving conditional orders not cause an interrupt would make my game run smoother.
At the moment half my interrupts are from training squadrons announcing they're going back to earth to refuel, then later that they have done so and are waiting for new orders.
Ideally I should be able to automate a squadron for training, refuelling then training again and get no interrupts until either the entire fleet reaches 100% or they start getting maintenance failures.

I concur
Its also an annoyance when trying to use conditionals to order state run colony ships, every pickup and dropoff results in an interrupt.
Ofcourse fuel usage ones are kinda important sometimes. For example, scout ships and survey ships that are often FAR away from any kind of refueling support, I do like that they cause interrupts, but on other ships, not so much.
Perhaps have a checkbox next to the order where it is set such that when checked, it actas as an interrupt, oterwise, the ship just automatically executes its conditional orders and chugs along (perhaps still notifying the player in events though.

[MarcAFK]

At the moment you will get an interrupt when the ship runs out of orders anyway.

[Krictic]

So, my idea is to make pre-TN technologies more relevant, i know the game revolve around TN, but i think adding a few "current-day" tech would add tremendously to realism, i mean, by deacelerating TN development and adding a few pre-TN tech we would be able to do smaller, longer missions that requires more planning, by travelling at speed as slow as 70km/s, space travel wouldn´t be so trivial to do as it is.

maybe that´s already been discussed, but i wanted to give some input anyway.

[Rich.h]

If possible can we have more shift/ctrl clicking on the combat overview screen? So far we can select multiple weapons when assigning them to a fire control, but when assigning a target with FC's can only select on FC at a time. I have noticed now I have moved into larger ships with large numbers of weapon systems and FC that this can become a serious chore. When they AI decides to offload 50+ large salvos of missiles at me and I have a group of PD escorts along I can almost hear the cries of agony from my mouse. I'm not sure if it was simply never thought to be needed or cannot be done for that section of the screen.

In a similar fashion could we get shift/ctrl clicks added to the ground unit tab of the population window, and also to the task group window for the ships in the TG section?

[chrislocke2000]

It would be great to have an order to jump and divide survey vessels as well as the jump and divide vessels currently in place. With the new fuel rules I'm finding a need for larger support fleets for my survey expeditions and it gets to a bit of micro management when I need to split and regroup different parts of the group

[Yonder]

It would be nice to have shore leave conditional orders.

Triggers:
Deployment time 80% of Intended
Deployment time 90% of Intended
Deployment time 100% of Intended

Actions:
Return to Colony or Recreation Ship (if small enough) for shore leave

[Yonder]

Because of the long and variable turn processing times it would be great if there was some sort of gentle chime when turn processing had completed and it was time for your input again.