Anyone use a kind of mental checklist to keep track of everything?

[Iestwyn (OP)]

Huh... that's interesting. Helps a lot!

I think the only thing that leaves is for me to get used to resource management. I lose track of important resources (wealth, workers, minerals, maintenance, fuel) and end up having to deal with the consequences.

[TheTalkingMeowth]

No great solution for minerals, maintenance, people, or fuel.

But wealth is actually tracked in the upper left corner of the tactical window. It's the number in the header bar! And the value in parentheses is the change during the previous increment.

[Iestwyn (OP)]

Right, that I remember. But there isn't a way to track changes in minerals, fuel, and maintenance, at least on the colony level? I can calculate or at least eyeball net changes in minerals from the relevant screen (though I have no idea what the "SP" column means), but it'd still help to have a dedicated column. And I have no idea how to track changes in fuel and maintenance.

[StarshipCactus]

I just carefully go through everything when I start playing, I don't forget anything once I have done that. I also keep notes so if I intend to start a project, I can remember what I need for it.

[Marslettuce]

No great solution for minerals, maintenance, people, or fuel.

Aurora Dashboard (http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11123.0) works wonders for all of these.

[Iestwyn (OP)]

Why has no one mentioned this before??? Thanks so much!
No great solution for minerals, maintenance, people, or fuel.

Aurora Dashboard (http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11123.0) works wonders for all of these.

[TheTalkingMeowth]

SP is stockpile; i.e. how much of that mineral you currently have. That's the Stockpile column.

You can see the change in mineral stockpile in the last increment in the Recent SP column.

SP+Production is stockpile + 1 year of on-planet mining at current production.

No way to track fuel and maintenance changes, sorry.

[misanthropope]

"mental checklists" are how i pretend to myself that im keeping track of things, when i don't really care enough to keep track of things.  feel like i might not be the only one.

one of the benefits of a physical checklist (aside from it *working*, i mean) is that after every catastrophic failure, you get tangible improvement in improving your checklist. 

[TheTalkingMeowth]

"mental checklists" are how i pretend to myself that im keeping track of things, when i don't really care enough to keep track of things.  feel like i might not be the only one.

one of the benefits of a physical checklist (aside from it *working*, i mean) is that after every catastrophic failure, you get tangible improvement in improving your checklist.

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[Iestwyn (OP)]

"mental checklists" are how i pretend to myself that im keeping track of things, when i don't really care enough to keep track of things.  feel like i might not be the only one.

one of the benefits of a physical checklist (aside from it *working*, i mean) is that after every catastrophic failure, you get tangible improvement in improving your checklist. 

You mention physical checklists: do you keep one? What's on it?