Suggestions Thread for v2.4.0

[buczbucz]

It would be great to have a new Move to System Requiring Geosurvey or Gravsurvey standing order.

It could be used as a secondary standing order to complement Survey Next Three Bodies or Locations primary standing order and greatly help with survey ships automation.

[buczbucz]

It would be great to set automated assignments for academy commandants and sector governors.

Alternatively you could add an option to make death/retirement of an active governor/scientist an interrupt.

The goal is to be able to replace those roles immediately after they are emptied (same way as planet governors are replaced).

[skoormit]

Boost factor for engines in the name or description in the component design screen since that's one of the three most important characteristics about an engine along with it's power rating. Just something like x1.5 at the end of the name after engine power.

Interesting. How is it useful to know the amount of boost, when you already know the total power (which is calculated with the boost included)?
I suppose it does let you infer relative fuel consumption.
But if  that is what you want to know, why not ask for net LEPH in the description, instead of boost?

[skoormit]

I often partially refuel ships, either because I have a ship that needs just a bit more fuel to make it to its destination and I don't want to overly deplete the current source, or because I am fueling a tanker and do not want to give it a full tank for its upcoming mission.

Currently, I must give a refuel order, manually watch the tank while I advance time, clear the order when the fuel reaches the desired level, and then give the desired subsequent orders.

To reduce the micromanagement time required for this, could we have some assortment of the following options?

A) A setting per ship (on the Miscellaneous tab, probably) for desired max fuel level percent (default 100%). Refuel orders will treat this as the fuel capacity of the ship.

B) New fleet orders to "Refuel (Partial)..." (alongside the existing "Refuel..." orders) that will respect the above ship setting (while the existing "Refuel..." orders will act like they do now, ignoring the setting).

C) A Class setting (alongside Minimum Fuel) for the default partial refill percent, applied to newly built ships of the class.

D) An order setting (similar to Order Delay and Minimum Distance) to specify the desired fuel level percent for a given Refuel order. Default is blank, which is interpreted as 100%.

B and C require A.
D could stand alone, but is the weakest choice, since it would apply to all ships in the fleet for a given order, which is problematic.
Probably there are other ways to skin this cat.

[paolot]

It would be great to have a new Move to System Requiring Geosurvey or Gravsurvey standing order.

It could be used as a secondary standing order to complement Survey Next Three Bodies or Locations primary standing order and greatly help with survey ships automation.

If (grav and geo) survey ships, having orders to survey bodies or locations, can travel to a system requiring survey, they already do and start surveying.
Ships can travel to a new system if they have jump engines, or if there is a path of jump gates/stabilised JPs from the ship position to the system to survey (yellow/orange lines between systems in the Galactic map).

[Louella]

It would be great to have a new Move to System Requiring Geosurvey or Gravsurvey standing order.

I'm afraid I don't understand this question ?



This is one of my survey ships, jump capable, and it's fully automated ?

[nuclearslurpee]

It would be great to have a new Move to System Requiring Geosurvey or Gravsurvey standing order.

I'm afraid I don't understand this question ?



This is one of my survey ships, jump capable, and it's fully automated ?

OP is asking for both geo and grav in a single order, which currently we do not have.

[SpaceMarine]

I wish there was a conditional order "Enter Jump point", it would be so nice if you could automate to that level

[paolot]

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OP is asking for both geo and grav in a single order, which currently we do not have.

Order "Survey Next Three Bodies or Locations" should be enough: if a ship can travel to an unsurveyed system, it contains both move and survey actions.

[buczbucz]

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OP is asking for both geo and grav in a single order, which currently we do not have.

Order "Survey Next Three Bodies or Locations" should be enough: if a ship can travel to an unsurveyed system, it contains both move and survey actions.

I don't think that's the case.

If all bodies and locations in a given system are surveyed and it's your only standing order then you get the "Orders Not Possible" message and the ship doesn't move.

[paolot]

Is the ship jump-capable? if it isn't, at least one of the jump points in the system is it stabilised?
If your ship can't leave the system, you get that message.

[buczbucz]

Is the ship jump-capable? if it isn't, at least one of the jump points in the system is it stabilised?
If your ship can't leave the system, you get that message.

Ship is jump capable.

Could you double check if survey next three bodies or locations standing order causes your ships to change system on their own if there is nothing to survey?
I need a move to a system requiring xxx secondary order to make that happen.

I'm attaching a screenshot of my setup.

[alex_brunius]

It feels a bit odd/inconcistent that missile decoys also are automatically equipped with retargeting if the missile is and can stick around to make infinite amounts of attacks with the missile, while ship launched decoys only stick around for a single 5sec increment. Ship launched decoys are much much larger and more expensive so how come they are so much more primitive than the decoys acompanying missiles?

[paolot]

Is it possible to pause the fabrication of ground units?
As I am suffering of shortage of some minerals, I would prefer that a ship fabrication can receive them, against GUs.

[LuuBluum]

I suppose I'm obligated to ask: a SM way to transfer officers to another empire, and an SM way to transfer colonies to another empire.

It's a recurring suggestion, but it's one that I'd benefit greatly from.