Suggestion: Fleet Icons should display information about the fleet.

[tonnyP]

All fleet icons are the exact same regardless of composition.

It would greatly improve player experience/actions per minute if when zoomed out to a suitable level the fleet icons displayed some information such as fleet number/fuel/attack power/mission.

These are several data points but given the size of the fleet icon itself its possible to pictorially display this info within the icon itself at a minimum you could put the fleet number in the centre of the icon. For me just this would be a huge improvement to managing my extensive military. There could be a line around the icon that filled/depleted with fuel/health etc.

It would also improve immersion, if the map is meant to be some kind of operations map, then of course the fleet icons would have some differentiation, say in the same way NATO Joint Military Symbology displays different divisions/battalions etc.

The army icons do this to some extent, you can tell infantry from mechanised for example.

If you have a pop up telling you X fleet is experiencing Y, it would make managing and playing the game so much easier if at requisite zoom, I could immediately see on the map where that fleet was without having to click show me.

However it would just make planning easier because at requite zoom, you would know where each fleet number was on the map all at once, without having to mouse over/look through the fleets index for each fleet individually .

[Thineboot]

Making use of the existing five fleet icons should be easy to achieve.
Adding badges, visible when any fleet is selected, could offer more detailed info on the strategic map (aka zoomed out).
Should also keep performance impact low (if any).

[Thineboot]

Making use of the existing five fleet icons should be easy to achieve.
Adding badges, visible when any fleet is selected, could offer more detailed info on the strategic map (aka zoomed out).
Should also keep performance impact low (if any).

Correction: you're making use of these icons - you just have to scroll in to realize that they are used They are hardly to see under all these overlapping circles...