I don't know about anyone else, but I really like to get exactly the information I'm looking for quickly.
Map (Normal, Mini, and Tactical)
- Sortable maps would be great. The minimap already has some of what is needed but if this was expanded to the other maps it would be really handy IMO.
- Possible sort options:
..By race
..By Ally, neutral, enemy
..Combat or non-combat
..Starbases
..Trade
..Mining resources
- Being able to bookmark spots on the map could come in handy.
Lists & Reports
- For the planet & ship lists, maybe a right-click on the sort options to bring down a list instead of scrolling through would be more efficient.
- For the news report that shows what ship was built that turn, I'd like if a window or tooltip showed which ships were already in orbit. That way I'd know quickly what I'd want to change the ship building to.
- Starbases should list at a glance how many slots they have available.
- Starbase list should be sortable by owner and should tell at a glance who that owner is w/o having to click on it.
Ship Movement, Fleet Management, and Rally Points
- Make the rally list sortable alphabetically and remember it's last location in the list. On gigantic galaxies which I like to play, having to scroll through the list looking for a particular rally point can get rough.
- An autolaunch feature would be good since creating rallies on gigantic galaxies can be somewhat tedious.
- Add a hotkey to select all ships in a stack and lock it as a stack. Pressing the same key again would unlock the stack so you could move ships individually.
- Allow moving an entire stack together at the speed of the slowest ship in the stack.
- The track target option in fleet combat would be better if your own ship didn't almost constantly block the view of the target ship.
- In the fleet manager, if a health bar was shown so I could easily tell which ships to arrange into fleet.
- Sector sweep/patrol. Also be able to set it to repeat or stop after one pass.
