Posted by: Zincat
« on: January 26, 2014, 07:06:01 AM »Another thing, Steve, that might help with actually making civilians more useful. Right now the priority of user-given civilian orders is very low. Civilians basically do whatever they want, and do not care much about your orders unless they just happen to be in orbit around the world where the order is.
Even though I have 8 shipping lines and close to 150 freighters now, I have an order for moving automated mines that has been waiting for 2 years, and not a single mine was moved yet. And this even though there are freighters in the system. Most of the freighters though are in the nearby system, cause I have 5 colonized planets there.
So, I'd like to request that either player-issued orders are prioritized, or that the player can prioritize them by paying more! Say that I pay double for the transports, of course the civvies would come and carry my stuff first!
Also, a question, I have 8 shipping lines (3 were born in the last 2 years) and I can't help but notice that things slowed down a LOT lately.
Could it be that the number of shipping lines is also an important fact in slowdowns? Aside from the total number of ships I mean. I say so because lately it takes about a minute to open up the shipping lines window, while before it did not though I had the same number of ships.
If so I assure you we can live with just one shipping line, for performance's sake....
Even though I have 8 shipping lines and close to 150 freighters now, I have an order for moving automated mines that has been waiting for 2 years, and not a single mine was moved yet. And this even though there are freighters in the system. Most of the freighters though are in the nearby system, cause I have 5 colonized planets there.
So, I'd like to request that either player-issued orders are prioritized, or that the player can prioritize them by paying more! Say that I pay double for the transports, of course the civvies would come and carry my stuff first!
Also, a question, I have 8 shipping lines (3 were born in the last 2 years) and I can't help but notice that things slowed down a LOT lately.
Could it be that the number of shipping lines is also an important fact in slowdowns? Aside from the total number of ships I mean. I say so because lately it takes about a minute to open up the shipping lines window, while before it did not though I had the same number of ships.
If so I assure you we can live with just one shipping line, for performance's sake....