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Hi there!
First of all I just wanted to say its a great game, just bought it three days ago and downloaded and im having good fun playing after work
However I have a few things I want to point out;
When im inside the planet window I can see "ships in orbit", but as far as I 've noticed there is no way for me to see the names of the ships in orbit. For example, I have two models of a ship, both looks the same but one is more modern and they have different names, so I want to launch the older one from orbit to send off to another world as defender, but there doesnt seem to be any way for me to see which of the two ships are which, wouldnt it be nice to add toolstips? So that when you hover over a ship in orbit it lists the name of the ship and the name of the class.
Good examples of games that uses tooltips in a great way are for example Europa Universalis series, Hearts of Iron series, Victoria etc, all made by Paradox, this makes many things in the game easier and at the same time you dont need to clutter up the interface with lots and lots of information.
Also, when it comes to starbases, wouldnt it be nice to see which modules you can build in the starbase without having to send a constructor to it? I mean, for example when you double click on the starbase you can get an additional information window stating that:
*There are no more influence modules avaiable to construct on this starbase (0)
*There are Military, Social and Influence modules left to be constructed (2)
*You have the following weapon and defence modules left:
**Beam (1)
**Missile (3)
etc etc
and the numbers within the "( )" is how many more of that modules you can construct.
Just some suggestions that would make the game a bit more streamlined, any opinions on this?
Thanks for reading
First of all I just wanted to say its a great game, just bought it three days ago and downloaded and im having good fun playing after work
However I have a few things I want to point out;
When im inside the planet window I can see "ships in orbit", but as far as I 've noticed there is no way for me to see the names of the ships in orbit. For example, I have two models of a ship, both looks the same but one is more modern and they have different names, so I want to launch the older one from orbit to send off to another world as defender, but there doesnt seem to be any way for me to see which of the two ships are which, wouldnt it be nice to add toolstips? So that when you hover over a ship in orbit it lists the name of the ship and the name of the class.
Good examples of games that uses tooltips in a great way are for example Europa Universalis series, Hearts of Iron series, Victoria etc, all made by Paradox, this makes many things in the game easier and at the same time you dont need to clutter up the interface with lots and lots of information.
Also, when it comes to starbases, wouldnt it be nice to see which modules you can build in the starbase without having to send a constructor to it? I mean, for example when you double click on the starbase you can get an additional information window stating that:
*There are no more influence modules avaiable to construct on this starbase (0)
*There are Military, Social and Influence modules left to be constructed (2)
*You have the following weapon and defence modules left:
**Beam (1)
**Missile (3)
etc etc
and the numbers within the "( )" is how many more of that modules you can construct.
Just some suggestions that would make the game a bit more streamlined, any opinions on this?
Thanks for reading