My feelings on the Shipyard
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I discovered GalCiv2 only recently (less than a week!) but I already love it. I expecially love the shipyard, spending more time building good looking ships than actually playing the game!
However, I think some things could use some tweaking, as it make the creation of a good ship quite harder than it could be. I will list the things that I thought could use some improvement, hoping a developper see that and can tell wich is doable and wich is day-dreaming
- No function to copy/paste an object.
- Objects can be moved only individually. We cannot move a whole group by moving a parent component. This can be annoying when you build a good chunk, and then realize the whole chunk should be a little lower, or something. You are then forced to remove ALL the components one by one, move the first component, and rebuild on it one by one.
- Since there is no copy/paste, to copy an object I click on it to have its size/orientation values, then I put another one of the same. Work well, BUT the new object is actually a little tiny bit smaller than the original. A little bug in the value, I guess, wich force me to resize a little each new component.
- About resizing, we could use a +/- button for fine tuning. And a numeric value would be great!!!
- New objects are attached with one anchor point. Always the same, and that's a shame! Would be great to have the possibility to switch by wich of his own anchor point we attach an item. For example, I want to make a stack of cylindric containers. Right now, I can only attach them end to end, and not side to side.
- Rotations could use a fine tuning option, allowing less than 45° rotations. I know this will probably not be possible, but I would love to have an option like that.
- When scrolling trough the list of placed components at top of the screen, there is a bug when you come at the last components and back by one page: you come back two pages instead. To have the correct page of components, you need to back two times, and forward once.
- This list of components could use some tweaking, its kinda hard to find what you look for when you have a hundred components, and simply getting to the end of the list start to be annoying.
- The list of available components could also use some tweaking. For example, I would love to have the options to put components in a "favorites" list. There is already three categories, it would simply be a fourth category, and for each component we click on, we could have the option to add/remove it to/from the favs.
That's all I'm thinking off right now. If I remember anything else, I'll add it here.
Anyway, the game is still awesome, and the shipyard even more! I think I didnt had so much fun building something since my childhood when I was playing Lego! Great job!!
PS: excuse any english mistake I could make, its not my native language, thx (but dont hesitate to correct me anyway, learning blablabla)
However, I think some things could use some tweaking, as it make the creation of a good ship quite harder than it could be. I will list the things that I thought could use some improvement, hoping a developper see that and can tell wich is doable and wich is day-dreaming
- No function to copy/paste an object.
- Objects can be moved only individually. We cannot move a whole group by moving a parent component. This can be annoying when you build a good chunk, and then realize the whole chunk should be a little lower, or something. You are then forced to remove ALL the components one by one, move the first component, and rebuild on it one by one.
- Since there is no copy/paste, to copy an object I click on it to have its size/orientation values, then I put another one of the same. Work well, BUT the new object is actually a little tiny bit smaller than the original. A little bug in the value, I guess, wich force me to resize a little each new component.
- About resizing, we could use a +/- button for fine tuning. And a numeric value would be great!!!
- New objects are attached with one anchor point. Always the same, and that's a shame! Would be great to have the possibility to switch by wich of his own anchor point we attach an item. For example, I want to make a stack of cylindric containers. Right now, I can only attach them end to end, and not side to side.
- Rotations could use a fine tuning option, allowing less than 45° rotations. I know this will probably not be possible, but I would love to have an option like that.
- When scrolling trough the list of placed components at top of the screen, there is a bug when you come at the last components and back by one page: you come back two pages instead. To have the correct page of components, you need to back two times, and forward once.
- This list of components could use some tweaking, its kinda hard to find what you look for when you have a hundred components, and simply getting to the end of the list start to be annoying.
- The list of available components could also use some tweaking. For example, I would love to have the options to put components in a "favorites" list. There is already three categories, it would simply be a fourth category, and for each component we click on, we could have the option to add/remove it to/from the favs.
That's all I'm thinking off right now. If I remember anything else, I'll add it here.
Anyway, the game is still awesome, and the shipyard even more! I think I didnt had so much fun building something since my childhood when I was playing Lego! Great job!!
PS: excuse any english mistake I could make, its not my native language, thx (but dont hesitate to correct me anyway, learning blablabla)
