Random wishlist and suggestions from a new player

The Galaxy Lives On! Distant Worlds, the critically acclaimed 4X space strategy game is back with a brand new 64-bit engine, 3D graphics and a polished interface to begin an epic new Distant Worlds series with Distant Worlds 2. Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

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Psycho78
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Random wishlist and suggestions from a new player

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I tried to get into DWU and could certainly appreciate the game, but I personally couldn't get past the UI, graphics, and 2D overhead view.  It's just me, I need my space games to be 3D. I could see that DW2 would appeal to me more, and I've been playing it since release on Thursday. DW2 is beautiful, and the UI is very nice as well, great job.

Random wishlist and suggestions:

-Click and drag to pan works great, but it would also be great to have up/down panning as well.  Would be nice to fully rotate around the nice looking ships and planets.

-For new player quality of life, I was confused by the 5 blue dots on the colony badge.  I'm guessing it is infantry but it wasn't obvious for a while.  Maybe a tooltip?

-Also for new players explaining or having a tooltip for what things like MS-1 and RS-1 mean would be good.

-Minor UI nitpick, at 2560x1080 resolution in Resources screen with UI scaled one size larger, "Fuel and Construction Resources In Use" filter pulldown text doesn't fit.

-The Bridge camera view for ships is really cool.  I would love to see that sort of thing expanded on, it's so immersive to me.  A free camera would be a lot of fun for sightseeing if the engine would do well with it.

-Would be nice if the badges on the galaxy map had tooltips for each item.

-Allow moving the tour window, it keeps blocking things I'd like to see.

-Screenshot key (mine is Scroll Lock) in Steam doesn't work.

-Steam overlay (Shift-Tab) is washed out. GTX 1050Ti, Fullscreen at 2560x1080

-Shift plus WASD to fast scroll would be useful.

-"Advisor Suggestion / Assign Mission" screen, 2 options Assign Mission or Decline.  Need an option to zoom to system/planet/whatever so we can see what/where they are talking about.

-Let us change the order of ships in the lists.

-An option to disable Auto-Enabling the Exploration map overlay when clicking on ships in the Exploration tab would be great.  When I'm trying to decide which ship to reassign it's hard to see the map with the overlay.

-A bookmark or notes function would be great, with nothing else selected right-click on something like a planet and type a name to set a bookmark or note.

-Technology Recovered screen, "Hyperdrive technologyy" has a typo.

-For spies on Auto, they keep stealing the same maps from the same factions over and over, would be good to have a cooldown so they don't take the frequent chance of getting caught.

-Sometimes I select an exploration ship that can explore up to 25 and right-click and hold on a star, the Survey System option comes up and I select it but then the ship goes right back to No Mission. Some information or error message to explain why it won't do it would help. I instead gave the ship a move command and just had it survey the planets manually.

Don't take this as complaints, the game is vast and great and very playable.
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