Neccessary improvements

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HTG
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Neccessary improvements

Post by HTG »

Hi, I am playing Distant Worlds for quite some time. Before I am listing the things which need improvement, I want to say, that I like the game in general, but ...

Here are those things which are really bugging me the most about the game:
Performance! Why is it still not performing well? The game jerks while scrolling and sometimes it simply doesn't react for about 5 to 10 seconds ...

1. Planning expansion when you in mid game: If you have about 40 colonies, it is impossible to planning building a colony ship on one of your colonies and sending it to a specific planet you want to colonize. Building the colony ship takes quite some time in real time. So, when the colony ship is ready, one does not remember exactly, what was the plan for it in detail ... The same for any other kind of ship type, e. g. war ships, construction ships ...
To deal with the situation, I want to be able to queue commands to any ship, already even, when I order it.

2. Why is it impossible to search a planet by name?
Why can't I search a new Colony giving a type AND a suitability?
Why can't I search something in the vicinity of a ship or colony, planet, star, black hole, etc.?

3. Why is it still a pain to see how resources are distributed? I mean this is already a big problem in DW1. The additional micro management to define the amount of resources a colony or station needs as minimum does not help. Still several planet are missing resources and at the same time lots of freighters are sitting around doing nothing useful. Resource distribution is quite inefficient.

I stop here for now.

Please keep in mind, that I only writing here to help improve the game so that it is more fun to play it.

Tom.
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