One thing that I feel in GC2 is that I never really seem to have "control" over my civilisation and that I have to just remember what planet is doing what and who is where.

I'd like to see perhaps the "focus" of a planet (research, military or civil) as well as the number for these stats on the planet list screen. This would help me to see which planets I'm using for research could be quickly refocussed for military production in times of war (ie. the ones that have a shipyard). Perhaps it'd be nice to be able to change the focus from the planet screen - so during times of peace you can quickly push a lot of planets over to research.

Also, the number of free "tiles" would be nice, to see which planets can have new things built.

I'd like to be able to disable the "we've researched a new tech!" messages as an option perhaps. I sometimes find that in the middle of a war, I'll end a turn and a lot of things will happen. I want to respond immediately to an attack, but then I get plagued with screens of "Research completed!" and "Here's the news!" and "We've found something on a planet, what should we do" or "Hey, pay us money or we'll come after you". All nice things on their own, but when it's war I want to not be distracted at the start of a turn. How to deal with this in an easy-to-fix-manner though, is tricky. I haven't had any good ideas on how it could be resolved, without a lot of code.

I'd like to know when two civilisations declare war on each other. At the moment I find that I'll be happily trading and then suddenly a trade route is cut off - and I then find that two AIs have gone to war. Well, thanks guys!

A while back I made a thread about UI tweaks I'd like to possibly see (though some were indeed trivial and can well be forgiven ). One that I would really like to see is the glow of "relation status" around each of the civ logos on the relations screen, relative to the currently selected civ. An alternative, maybe easier fix could be to add the civ name to the logo - I still have a hard time picking up which civ is which just from its logo.

I found it hard to find where to break an alliance. If you make an alliance by speaking to, it makes sense that you should break an alliance by speaking to (except unlike "normal" trades, breaking alliances must always be a deal - unless the player has added something like "break alliance and give me all your money" - that would be a no deal ). I found it illogical that the "break alliance" was a checkbox that takes over "trade embargo". I can't remember, but was there any confirmation for selecting this dramatic action?

I'd like to be able to complain to AI about it building starbases in my influence field. If they can do it to me (and I ignore it), surely I could complain to them too - even if they ignore it as well? Hahaha... well, perhaps if you've got a massive military and they don't, they might rescind. At least it would make me feel better about annoying AI starbases

How can I tell when a major race is at war with a minor race?

Happily, with the 1.11 patch, things are getting better. The AI seems to be getting more clever, some UI issues were fixed. Good work

Hi!
One thing that annoys me when upgrading ship design is I don't see what exactly are component on it. Esp. annoying when quite some components have the same picture. Currently I'm so limited with that I rather design a new ship than upgrade the old one.

Could you improve the UI in such a way I'd get some info on components? Like I'd click the component, and the left "window" would change the focus on it. Or I'd move a a mouse pointer over the component, and a texbox with the name of the component would appear.

BR, Iztok

If those ui changes will make it in 1.2 ( and i hope earlier betas ) its another few weeks no frash air for me ^^ seriously stop improving this game or ill never stop playing :<

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Could you please add a Rally point selector button for planets in Colony Management screen. Would be super useful atleast to me, anybody else support? Pretty please

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Also when you currently move a rallypoint, sometimes ships do actually go to the new locations, sometimes they just drop it and stay where they are.

Could you also check out, the "show only fleet battles option", I have been getting battle viewer battles even if both parties are not fleets aka fleet vs 1 ship. I think some other people have mentioned this too.

A very small suggestion about land battles, could you make the laser and other sounds bit quieter? I don´t know how it is possible, but I tend to play with quite quiet sounds and the land battles are still booming loud. Weird

Well anyway I really think UI is the weakest spot of GC2 at the moment so lot of effort should be given to that department. Keep making it better

Please add an option so that the fleet that was previously selected on the main map appears highlighted on the diplomacy screen. The only thing I hate is when I trade a lot of ships, I need to write down on paper the specific ships that I want to trade to the AI.

Dano

e-stab,

Before v1.11 when you had moves left after auto orders where done the ship with moves left was autofocused.

It's the option "skip moves left over from auto pilot".

I know. What I'm driving at is that before v1.11 when you had a ship/fleet with moves left over from automove that ship/fleet was autoselected. Not anymore. Now I have to use the find button to find the ship/fleet in question. But it did make me find the find button so it's not all bad, but still.

I would also find a keyboard command and/or button to "find ship/fleet with moves left" useful.

Tab-key.

Thanks!

While I'm at it I think I should mention that I have noticed that transfer of unused social production to military doesn't always work. I suspect it has something to with loading a saved game, but I'm not sure. Speaking of transferring production, it would be nice if unused military production was transferred to social. Would be useful for planets that can't build ships.

Not really a UI pure change, but I think splitting industrial production and research production on the domestic screen would be a good idea. So instead of one spending slider there would be two, one for industrial capacity and one for research. And there would only be two distribution sliders for military and social distribution of the industrial capacity. So if you put your industrial slider to 100% your factories would be running at full capacity and if the distribution sliders where set to 50/50 between social and military then a planet with an industrial capacity of 20 would use 10 for social and 10 for miltary. And if the same planet had a research capacity of 10 and the research spending slider was set at 50% the planet would produce 5 research points. That would make the economy model make more sense and be easier to understand I think. As it is now it's just plain weird that the spending slider affects two types of buildings which can be set to run at 100% capacity but then be distributed 100% to military so no research gets done even though they are supposedly running at full capacity when in fact only the factories are running at full capacity. Having one industrial spending slider and one research spending slider makes it possible to have both types of buildings run at full capacity if you have the cash flow to afford it. I don't know how difficult such a change would be or how it would affect the AI but I do believe it would improve the game considerably. I hope this makes sense to you all and not only to me. If not, ask and I'll try to explain what I mean better.

Indeed Walldorf2000 post made me realize how badly this game need a quick button for "move all autopilot moves". Make it happen please

I would love this as well!

Keep up the good work, it's much appreciated!

I'd like to know when two civilisations declare war on each other. At the moment I find that I'll be happily trading and then suddenly a trade route is cut off - and I then find that two AIs have gone to war. Well, thanks guys!

Knowing when civs declared war on each other was a benefit of espionage in GCI. It ought to be again.

Here is the thing if implemented would make my life easier.
Since 100% approval colonies give monsterous +100% growth rate I try to keep all growing colonies at that rate.
That needs a lot of micromanaging of tax slider evey few turns.


So it could be a great if you could set taxes to "keep 100% approval", with option to exclude some colonies from this equation (making it keep all colonies exempt those selected to 100% aproval).

This would greatly reduce micromanagement for my playstyle.
On the other hand, if 100% approval didn't gave extra growth bonus, then all this would be unneccesary.

Well yes, while I personally have no problem with some extra growth you get from >75% approval, the whole idea that having 100% approval, instead of 99%, would somehow double your growth is very weird. And encourages high micromanagement to best optimize cities.

After every party elections I really feel like dictator, with more then 90% votes beeing for me.

Outstanding set of suggestions from everyone and thanks to Startdock for listening. Nothing worse than haveing the map yank out from under you to move to a ship with moves left just as you click and the ship wyo were going to sent into battle goes the opposite direction, or worse, right into the fray when you wanted to escape. CarElf is a goddess.