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Need minimap popup or display in shipyard

Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014

Hello

I have been playing your wonderful strategy games since the first iteration and the only idea that I have to offer is this scenario; I've established a large sprawling empire and am now so large I am surrounded by potential enemies, my turn generated reports popup and show a shipyard/s at some random planet/s is idle what do you want to do? I click on the link and I'm in the shipyard screen and yet I have no idea where on the map this planet/shipyard is in relation to anything...if I click out of the screen I'm not by default highlighting the location the popup just showed and unless I want to constantly dig/scroll around in screens to figure out what planet and were it is in relation to everything else I don't know what the shipyard should focus on. Do I make colony ships because there are planets nearby worth colonizing or do I need warships because the Dregin are nearby. All 3 Gal Civ's have this issue and I'm wondering why , from a strategic point of view, there isn't a map or at least a pull down menu to show where said planet is on the map? You've done so much to improve the interface in the new game it would really be nice to be a little more strategic when queuing up ships.