Slitherine

• Exploration ships don't partition work in a sensible way, often it seems like 8+ ships will be heading to the same system, maybe split it up a bit?
  
• The graphics performance on the game is pretty poor, my computer can play modern shooters at 2560x1440 with candy on no problem, but this game at 1920x1080 has zoom in/out issues, screen pan issues and window open issues (issues=redraw lag). Everything just feels laggy and it only gets worse as the universe gets busy. Looks like you're using a 2d renderer which might not be cutting it.
  
• Speaking of resolution issues, I can't run at my native res because the fonts then become impossibly small.
  
• Star bases don't launch fighters when an enemy ship is in range, usually the fighters get launched only after the base has been hit a few times. This is a real problem on mining bases with fighters as it means they'll lose fights they should win.
  
• When a ship/base is selected, and it's your own, it would be great if there was a attack radius shown.
  
• The ship design components list moves when you add a component (if it's not top justified). This is a right PITA if you were about to select the component above the selected component.
  
• The ship design screen feels awkward, cramped and not well laid out. Given the number of ships that have to be designed, retrofitted, then manually edited, I must spend a significant portion of my time playing DW on this screen.
  
• Maybe the retrofit should add countermeasures/targeting to combat classed ships on upgrade?
  
• The max size limit of the ship your building should be displayed before you hit it.
  

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

Star bases don't launch fighters when an enemy ship is in range, usually the fighters get launched only after the base has been hit a few times. This is a real problem on mining bases with fighters as it means they'll lose fights they should win.

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ORIGINAL: Gandalf

Graphics performance here is flawless zooming in or out

My system (an M-Tech laptop) consists of an i7 (six core) 980 processor w/12 GByte Ram and an Nvidia 470M Graphics card with 1.5 GBytes on a 1920 x 1080 backlit screen.

To be fair, IMO, I don't believe the game was designed specifically for high performance graphically (as would be absolutely necessary in a shooter game) and instead depends more on user discretion on setup conditions and raw CPU processor power.

Have you tried reducing or turning off the Star Density on the Options screen?

and/or possibly reducing System Nebula detail (or disabling it entirely) on the Advanced Settings pop up?

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ORIGINAL: Nedrear

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

Star bases don't launch fighters when an enemy ship is in range, usually the fighters get launched only after the base has been hit a few times. This is a real problem on mining bases with fighters as it means they'll lose fights they should win.

Design error. You need to switch the defualt fighting stance in the design to distance battle instead of "point blank". Point blank means the fighter wait until the enemy is close by.

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

Perhaps bases should default to the max range unless changed (I'm pretty sure I didn't mess with the stance)

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

I'm new to DW but not the 4x genre (been playing since Stars!) and I managed to play a solid amount of DW legends over the holiday break and thought I would leave my "fresh eyes" feedback in hopes it can make things better:

Maybe the retrofit should add countermeasures/targeting to combat classed ships on upgrade?

The max size limit of the ship your building should be displayed before you hit it.

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

The ship design components list moves when you add a component (if it's not top justified). This is a right PITA if you were about to select the component above the selected component.

The ship design screen feels awkward, cramped and not well laid out. Given the number of ships that have to be designed, retrofitted, then manually edited, I must spend a significant portion of my time playing DW on this screen.

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

The graphics performance on the game is pretty poor, my computer can play modern shooters at 2560x1440 with candy on no problem, but this game at 1920x1080 has zoom in/out issues, screen pan issues and window open issues (issues=redraw lag). Everything just feels laggy and it only gets worse as the universe gets busy. Looks like you're using a 2d renderer which might not be cutting it.

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

The graphics performance on the game is pretty poor, my computer can play modern shooters at 2560x1440 with candy on no problem, but this game at 1920x1080 has zoom in/out issues, screen pan issues and window open issues (issues=redraw lag). Everything just feels laggy and it only gets worse as the universe gets busy. Looks like you're using a 2d renderer which might not be cutting it.

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ORIGINAL: Manzikert

I have a newish PC, no performance problems whatsoever.

I do think the ship design screen is a little clunky and hard to use, but they are working on that.

The exploration pathfinding could be better, but that kind of thing is surprisingly hard to code.  I think it performs as you would expect for the current state of computer science and the resources available for this project.

// assumes the desired explore location is where DW currently tries to send ships. Called when an explorer ship tries to figure out where to go next.
// Given a desired location for an explore ship to explore, checks to see if anyone is already going there, if so, find another system at random in the sector. 
// Give up if you can't find a suitable system in 5 attempts
GetLocationToExploreBasedOnDesired(Location desiredExploreLocation){
	int const maxAttempts = 5;
	int currentAttempt = 0;
	while(ships.Where(x=>x.ShipType == Explorer && x.Destination.System == desiredExploreLocation.Location).Count() > 0 && currentAttempt < maxAttempts){
		currentAttempt++;
		desiredExploreLocation = GetRandomSystemLocationInSector(desiredExploreLocation.System.Sector)
	}

	return desiredExploreLocation;
}

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ORIGINAL: Manzikert

...but that kind of thing is surprisingly hard to code.

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

		desiredExploreLocation = GetRandomSystemLocationInSector(desiredExploreLocation.System.Sector)

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ORIGINAL: Kayoz

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest

		desiredExploreLocation = GetRandomSystemLocationInSector(desiredExploreLocation.System.Sector)

You proposed that you could do better with a few lines of C# - but that would require that your proposed function - GetRandomSystemLocationInSector - code be included as well.

You are very badly oversimplifying the task.

By your measurement of lines, I should say that I can do facial recognition in one line.

desiredExploreLocation = desiredExploreLocation.System.Sector.AllSystemsInSector[(int)(new Random().NextDouble() * desiredExploreLocation.System.Sector.AllSystemsInSector.Count)];

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ORIGINAL: nickwwest
but I maintain it's not hard to do better than what is currently done without spending more than an hour coding and testing

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
Retrofitting will add countermeasures/targeting as long as they are in the new design that the ship is retrofitting to. With design automation on, these should be added to new designs as they are researched.

Check out my GAMEPLAY REDUX MOD (ROTS)

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ORIGINAL: the1sean
It would still be nice if there were a minimalist/tier1 version of all of the most basic components that was given to all empires by default (like proximity scanners, targeting/ecm gear, long-range scanners, etc). That way there wouldn't need to be nearly so much retrofitting super early in the game; the minimalist components would just get automatically more powerful as the newer techs are discovered.