Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Tomcat

ability to upgrade mining stations, gas mining stations, and research stations

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ORIGINAL: pad152

Distant Worlds – some suggestions for future updates, add-ons etc.

1. Go Back Button
- Your doing something in a system and event(s) happen, when you click on them you go to another system but, you forget what system you were working on before the event(s) happened. Add a go back button that would take you back to the previous system, even four or five systems back.

2. Selection Panel
You select ship(s) to respond to an event, without knowing if they will ever get there in time. It’s not always easy to find the right ship or the nearest fighting ship when you need one.
- Eliminate unfinished ships when selecting next/previous ships.
- Ability to toggle (automation on/off) when a ship is in the selection panel.
- Needs a next Military (fighting ship) button to respond to an event.
- Show current location, distance (how many systems away), and ETA of ship in the selection panel.
- maybe up in the left or right corner of the main view next to the time-speed adjustment buttons or the credits display , they could add :

Current View: Sector A8
Selected Item: Sector H6

maybe even add X-Y coordinates and system names or (deep space) if selected item is not in any system .

3. Ship Refit
- Allow ships to be refit from the Ship Window (refit button) or Selection Panel
- Allow multiple ships to be refit (cntr-right click) to select multiple ships in the ship window.

4. Ship Design
- Ability to save ship designs for an empire (like you can in Space Empires IV/V). So you don’t have to recreate the same ship designs for each new game.
- Ability to sort components by type/category on a ship when creating/editing a ship.

5. Custom Race
- Ability to create a custom race when starting a new game.

6. Build Recommendations
- Allow the user to select only some of the Recommendations to reduce costs.
Example: Recommend 4 Troop Ships, 10 Frigates, 14 Escorts
Show as: Recommend
4 Troop Ships (checkbox -Y/N)
10 Frigates (checkbox -Y/N)
14 Escorts (checkbox -Y/N )

7. Refuel
- Have a new class of ship (tanker) that can be used to refuel ships at remote locations or extend range of a small group of ships, something cheaper easier than re-supply ships.

8. Other Races
- Have major races appear as minor races when they are not one of the AI opponents. I keep seeing only the 6 opponent races selected at start over and over as minor races.

9. Ground Troops
- Ability to unload troops from a troop transport, there doesn’t seem to be any way to send troops or unload them on a planet/moon that is revolting.
- More troop types, maybe some to put down a revolt, effect corruption.

10. Leaders/rulers (RPG element)
- Each race gets 4 or 5 leaders.
- New way to win, kill off the leaders/rulers/royal family of an empire.
- Leaders can be (engineers, scientist, entertainers, generals, admirals, chief law enforcer, spy master, master assassin etc.) that can speed up or effect production/planet development/research/fleet attack/defense/happiness/corruption/spying/etc.
- New Intel missions to bribe, kidnap/ransom, kill, or convert/defect the other race’s leaders people.
- Find a few new leaders on new planets/ships like ruins.
- New mission for spies, guard/protect leaders.
- Ability to trade/pay ransom to get back captured leaders/spies.

11. Alt-tab
- Alt-tab switches between apps but, DW will not reduce to an icon on the taskbar on Windows XP. (and Vista)

12. Go to Ship Button
- This doesn’t always work, about 50% of the time, I get nothing put empty space. I seem to go where a ship was and not where it is!

very nice list . i like all the suggestions on this list mainly because most r on my own MUST-HAVE list of things i badly need in the game .

the ones i italicized and underlined and colored r ones i really would like to see implemented in-game since yesterday .

i hope that we see some of these suggestions make it into the game soon and not some distant future with patch version 56.9.18 or sumthin just because it's so deep in the wish list , they probly won't be able to get to it anytime soon .

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ORIGINAL: pad152

b]4. Ship Design
- Ability to save ship designs for an empire (like you can in Space Empires IV/V). So you don’t have to recreate the same ship designs for each new game.

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ORIGINAL: Davor

UH, you can do that from day one. When you design a ship, and you exit the desing process, just click on the ship, then click on Save. When you start a new game, then click on load and volia, there is your old ship desgin.

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

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course, there are all the attendant caveats of order-queuing, such as that orders are not balanced between constructors. If the Order Queue were maintained in a constructor-independent manner, as an empire-level "to do" list, instead of a per-ship queue, this would probably not happen.

I find they are pretty well balanced across constructors actually, but I can see the value in an empire-level queue. Good suggestion, can you please put it in the Master Wishlist as well?

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ORIGINAL: Davor

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ORIGINAL: Nabobalis

A windowed mode unless one already exists,

I am shure it exsists. Check your options. Sorry I forget how it's done.

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11. Alt-tab
- Alt-tab switches between apps but, DW will not reduce to an icon on the taskbar on Windows XP

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ORIGINAL: taltamir

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ORIGINAL: Davor

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ORIGINAL: Nabobalis

A windowed mode unless one already exists,

I am shure it exsists. Check your options. Sorry I forget how it's done.

The game is always in a borderless window sized to your desktop... it actually doesn't have a full screen mode.
This is why when you click "window" key on the keyboard your taskbar covers the bottom of the game without the game minimizing, it is why alt-tabbing is instant, and it is why FRAPS doesn't work for it (unless you tell it to work in windows which is not as accurate)

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11. Alt-tab
- Alt-tab switches between apps but, DW will not reduce to an icon on the taskbar on Windows XP

hit the "show desktop" button and it will.

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ORIGINAL:  Malevolence

I have posted elsewhere about this, but I've noticed my operations center is very lax on their reporting.

I do get combat messages when they start, but it doesn't include the location of the attack. The messages do not differentiate between when I am attacked versus when I initiate the attack -- in fact, I get no message that my ships are initiating an attack (with basic information on location).

I get no messages when a ship is lost or presumed lost due to lack of contact.

All messages should contain these basic elements: who, what, when, where, why. I realize the why is difficult for the AI sometimes, but others I think are pretty easy to include. The when can be the timestamp of the message.

Negative reports and fog of war reporting is also ok --- "We have lost contact with an exploration ship in the Sol system."

As ships start warping off on their own to refuel, this is also going to become an issue.

"A frigate from 1st Fleet is moving to Sol 4 Star Port to refuel. They will return when complete."

Visual queues in the ship and fleet summary window (in the bottom left corner of the map) are not consistent. Red for damaged is there in the fleet summary. Yellow for under construction is not there. Refueling is going to be needed (orange?). How about a color for in combat? Let us see those states at a glance.

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1) exponential tech trading/diplomacy
Seeing as I was the least developed race in the galaxy, I concentrated all my efforts into a single tech tree: shipyards. I crash researched that tree one time after the other, until I had one tech, that was superior to all other AI races. Now the fun can begin:
Trade my shipyard tech to another race for money. Trade money+shipyard to 2nd race for their galaxy map, which reveals a lot of colonies. Now you have a trade item, the galaxy map, worth like 150k cash. Trade galaxy map to 3rd empire for like 4 more lower techs, rinse and repeat. Trade major techs to lower developed races for even more money. Trade vast ammounts of money for superior techs, that only 1 race has.
To make it short, I paused the game and did 45 minutes only diplomacy, going through the whole list of 20 AI races like 5 times, grabbing everything I could, exploiting and bargaining. IN THE END, I had tons of money, ALL techs from everyone, and the whole galaxy map revealing all colonies. All in exchange for just 1 shipyard tech!!!