Forgive if other people have made the same comments. I played all my test games on Immense galaxy size, tight clusters, abundant everything except black hole frequency and ascension crystals.
UI Comments
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Scroll wheel speed on Colony Screen is very, very slow going through the list of options for development.
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Scroll wheel doesn’t work at all on the colonies list until you mouse over a planet, and is slow when it does work.
Playability Comments
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It would be nice to be able to direct ships on multi-point routes (or waypoints for patrol) via shift-clicking.
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Colonies needs sort orders (which I’m sure is on the to-do list, but still…) - or find some way to sort by highest research, highest production, lowest approval, where my manufacturering/research/finance capitals are, etc.
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Perhaps make colonies that are on countdown for takeover have a yellow outline or some other warning?
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When we get the notice a colony has been taken over (in either direction), it’d be nice to have a way to quickly have the camera pan to that system.
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It would be really nice to be able to tag starbases, colonies (maybe ships, but that’s not as desperate for me) with notes I type in to give reminders as to the purpose of the colony, starbase, for when upgrade times come.
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In the technology screen, more of a hint that you can’t research technologies for an age you’re not in yet - I went down a long path cause I really wanted an “Age of Ascenson” tech that I couldn’t even get yet.
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Scroll wheel on Research Technologies tech tree doesn’t zoom like GalCiv 2. Only occasionally useful, but would be nice.
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The colored dashed lines giving turns to get to that point on the path are very nice, but could we get a few more levels? Up to 5 would be nice.
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On auto-survey, sometimes multiple survey ships all race to the exact same item - somewhat counter-productive.
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Some way to prevent my auto-survey and auto-explore ships from entering enemy territory (preferably enabled by default)
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A way to disable auto-ship-type generation, or some what to filter the auto-generated ships out of the various lists.
Bugs Encountered
- If you double-click a starbase and do upgrades while a ship is moving, you don’t use up the constructor but it DOES add it to the installed modules list. It also doesn’t REMOVE it from the to-do list, so you can add the same module multiple times (while I like having Relics providing 330% or more, that’s probably not intended…) This sequence of events is flakey, at best.