Suggestion: Highlight the planet/moon within a system
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:55 am
So, at the galaxy level, if I have say new colony locations tab open, the game shows me which systems have a candidate in.
However, if I zoom in on the system (because I want to actually know how good the candidate it at a given strategic location), that highlight disappears at the system-level, so I cannot tell which is which.
In and of itself, this is an attempt to hack at getting the real info: WHAT WORLD? HOW GOOD IS IT? SHOULD IS SEND A COLONIZER?
None of that can be answered from the galaxy screen without randomly scrolling down through the list until I match up highlighted system, and can evaluate it.
In general - it would be very nice - if when a given mode is enabled (such as new mining locations, new construction locations, new colony locations, etc.) if I moused over the highlighted system - it would TELL ME what's there that's relevant in this mode - i.e. the stats of the world(s) at that location that matter for colonization, or for mining, or exploration, etc.
In general - it would be really really nice if at the galaxy level right clicking on a system was context-sensitive - so that if I've selected a colonizer - right clicking would offer me the ability to move-to or colonize-at available targets, directly, rather than randomly offering for whatever thing was in that system and "under my mouse" at that time (i.e. trying to discern sub-pixel pointer intention - which is bogus by definition). List available target-actions, rather than having to zoom into a system to blow it up to the point where it's meaningful / available to right click on...
Well, that's probably a substantial bit of work - so maybe just keep highlighting enabled when we zoom in on systems so we don't have to GUESS which one is which when we do have to zoom in to be able to select which one with the mouse as it currently stands...
However, if I zoom in on the system (because I want to actually know how good the candidate it at a given strategic location), that highlight disappears at the system-level, so I cannot tell which is which.
In and of itself, this is an attempt to hack at getting the real info: WHAT WORLD? HOW GOOD IS IT? SHOULD IS SEND A COLONIZER?
None of that can be answered from the galaxy screen without randomly scrolling down through the list until I match up highlighted system, and can evaluate it.
In general - it would be very nice - if when a given mode is enabled (such as new mining locations, new construction locations, new colony locations, etc.) if I moused over the highlighted system - it would TELL ME what's there that's relevant in this mode - i.e. the stats of the world(s) at that location that matter for colonization, or for mining, or exploration, etc.
In general - it would be really really nice if at the galaxy level right clicking on a system was context-sensitive - so that if I've selected a colonizer - right clicking would offer me the ability to move-to or colonize-at available targets, directly, rather than randomly offering for whatever thing was in that system and "under my mouse" at that time (i.e. trying to discern sub-pixel pointer intention - which is bogus by definition). List available target-actions, rather than having to zoom into a system to blow it up to the point where it's meaningful / available to right click on...
Well, that's probably a substantial bit of work - so maybe just keep highlighting enabled when we zoom in on systems so we don't have to GUESS which one is which when we do have to zoom in to be able to select which one with the mouse as it currently stands...
