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A few suggestions. - 4/7/2010 8:39:57 AM

aVoided

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Please ! For all that is holy in this great game !!!

ALLOW US TO ISSUE ORDERS TO OUR SHIPS AND STATIONS IN THE ***SHIPS AND BASES*** LIST VIEW SCREEN !!!!

I'm currently playing a game where i have literally about 400 military ships flying around (I'm sure there is players out there with even more) and decided... hmmm I think it's time to retrofit a lot of these suckers. Now I find out I have to open the ship menu, select the ship, go to the ship, close the ship menu right click the ship and issue my retrofit order. Open the window, select another ship close the window right click.... rince and repeat... oh 300 times for every ship I want retrofitted. This is ABSOLUTE ludicrous ! I have roughly 300 ships that are out of date... Loving the game, but in all seriousness did you really expect us to sit around and right click hundreds of ships when it comes to retrofitting?

So please I love micro management and everything that comes with it (including the bad) but this is WAY OVER THE LIMIT ! Allow highlighting and multiple ship selection and the ability to issue common orders from the nice neat list that is the Ships and Bases List. Example I have my list open and set to military ships. Shift and click about 50 ships to be retrofitted. One right click on the list with these ships selected and the menu opens with the basics. Refuel, Explore, Retrofit, ect. Seriously do i need to dial 1 before the number to call each of my ships individualy to issue orders in the age of hyper space flight and colonization lol? sarcasim aside i think this is VERY needed. No actually i dont think I KNOW !

If I may add one more to the wish list. Allow us to sub catagorey to the classes (Frigate, Destroyer, ect....) I know we can list them by role but by individual screen would be a nice luxury.

A few other tid bits I noticed. Please seperate planet bombarding torps and ship to ship torps for upgrade purposes. It is not cool to fly a shiny new fleet into battle and find that I have 30 ships all armed with planet torps as they all get mulched missing 80% of thier fire power :P I dread the moment I research a new planet torp and find my upgrade button turns my stuff into a mess.

Oh wait one more ! Seperate the hab modules too ! Dmg control and Repair mods should be seperate. Even though thier dmg reduction does not stack I did notice that when both equipped to a ship I gain the repairing of the bots and the dmg reduction of the damage control. Please seperate these it would helps lots with upgrading.

Man now I'm on a roll. Give us the ability to retrofit mining stations and star bases as well !!! I shouldn't have to build a whole new one to incorprate thier newer designs !

Also for some reason when I rename designs and auto upgrade them they lose thier name and become a basic name. This is esspecially frustrating with the different research star bases. I mod thier design and name them as such. Along comes a few upgrade and I hit the upgrade button on them and suddenly thier names are all *star base*

Well.. off I go to resume retrofitting ships of my empire... I will require click therapy by the time i'm done but it will be worth it !

I really am enjoying your game. In fact I LOVE your game. Just a few managment gaps to fill and you have an absolute winner as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't rant if I wasn't enjoying it !

avoided

Edit : just read 1.03. Its a good start. Really need the ability to order ships in mass from the ships and bases screen though. Not all ships you have are in fleets. Though it will be nice to have mass orders for fleets. but we need some for the random patrols too. I have about 400 ships in my current game and maybe 150 of them are in 3 fleets.. what about the other 250 randomly patrolling and serving with pride?

< Message edited by aVoided -- 4/7/2010 11:47:01 AM >

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RE: A few suggestions. - 4/8/2010 3:22:07 AM

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ORIGINAL: aVoided Edit : just read 1.03. Its a good start. Really need the ability to order ships in mass from the ships and bases screen though. Not all ships you have are in fleets. Though it will be nice to have mass orders for fleets. but we need some for the random patrols too. I have about 400 ships in my current game and maybe 150 of them are in 3 fleets.. what about the other 250 randomly patrolling and serving with pride?

A Mass Retrofit option from the Ships and Bases screen is on the list for the next patch. Would love to have put it in 1.0.3 but ran out of time. So we hear ya - we know it's important