The Starbase Management Console

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I think Stardock has done a pretty good job with the UI....I am not a manual reader so I keep stumbling across cool screens that present info and allow me to manage things. One thing I have not seen is a starbase management screen. I have a bunch of constructors running and I constantly send them to bases that have all the upgrades I want on them. Is there anyway to see what all your starbases have and what mods they can still take without clicking on every starbase and then figuring out what techs you have that provide modules that the starbase does not have. Am I missing something?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nope. Once opun a time they said they'd do something here, but instead just gave us the reroute ships. (which is nice, except it hits existing ships which i don't like)

If not a console, they should at least give you :
1) a way to find them. (i've forgotten about them)
2) make the fact that there are more bonus upgrades available visible on the screen without having to click the starbase 3 times...
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
OR make unfinished and finished starbases look different on the screen somehow.

I usually spend the time to click on a strbase and see what it has before i send a constructor. Sometimes i send an extra and then i just add to the bases weapons / defenses.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
make unfinished and finished starbases look different on the screen somehow.
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They *do* look different if you're zoomed in to the 3D level of the map. But that's not much help for larger-map players who spend most time looking at the 2D icons.

I'm still interested in a set of Constructor-only automation commands: Improve Nearest Econ Base, Improve Nearest Resource Mine, etc. Maybe they could be "virtual" rally points, always on the list but never fixed to a specific location?

But then that reminds me how much help the rally point UI still needs for large-map players...
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Once again I look at Supreme Commander for a better way. (Not that it's THAT good, it's just the small things. Zooming in on the cursor location for example.)

When upgrading a building, they add small dots in the zoomed out view to the icon, telling which tech-level the building is on. A level 1 would have 1 dot, 2 would have 2 dots, etc. Perhaps something similar could be done to starbases (and fleets, for that matter -> display size as dots above the icon like in NATO symbolism) in order to display how many upgrade are remaining.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
is this not going to be implemented with TA??? i thought it was cause they talked about doing it for the previous patch befor anouncing that TA exists... then said wed have to wait for the cool features.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
A hover or single click and popup showing the upgrades currently available as if you were trying to construct there would be super.

Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I hope they add it for twilight. Starbases and Constructors are a huge part of the game now and the starbase management screen along with some enhanced orders for constructors would be sweet.

Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Last I heard, it was slated to be released in the 2.0 patches after TA was released.