Buy all button in colony manager

It's very boring to buy every building/ship on 50 planets when you have big profit and little spendings on social or military producation. i think it will be a good move to introduse a button/ui "buy all but cheaper then xxxx credits" can save a lot of time.

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I doubt we'll be seeing major UI changes now that game dev time is shifting to Elemental. But just in case, I like the general idea, but maybe a Buy All dialog where you could select an improvement type rather than setting a maximum cost would be easier? Greedy players like me want it all, though...

Reply #3 Top

I would use it, too. 

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An additional button would make the colony manager more complicated and crowded. Also, adding a feature requires dev time and work. That button you suggest would be used ony by a part of all players, and is only useful in certain situations (late game, very good economy). Basically, it´s not worth the effort.

What exactly is the problem, gameplay-wise, you would like to have fixed? And what would be the easiest, most convenient way to fix it?

 

Reply #5 Top

I would use it even in the early game.   Buy All that would cost 4bc or 8bc to purchase.

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Quoting tetleytea, reply 5
I would use it even in the early game.   Buy All that would cost 4bc or 8bc to purchase.
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If you do that, you invest additional time and effort into micromanagement to have your colonys develop a little bit faster (by havin improvements finished a week or two earlier). If you automate the buying of nearly-finished improvements, you take away this option.

Reply #7 Top

"buy all but cheaper then xxxx credits"
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Than - not then.

Two totally different words, with two totally different meanings.

Sigh! The level of education these days (or is it just the individuals level of attentiveness?) is getting appalling.

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Sigh! The level of education these days (or is it just the individuals level of attentiveness?) is getting appalling.
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I think they would find their education appealing ;)

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just the individuals level of attentiveness
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Proper apostrophe use definitely requires an individual's attentiveness... ;)

Reply #11 Top

Muphry’s Law - any piece of writing aiming to correct another’s spelling or grammar will inevitably contains at least one spelling or grammatical error.

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Murphy's

contain

;)

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Quoting Sole, reply 12
Muphry's

contains


End of Sole's quote

I think that might be deliberate. (And if it's not just go with it!) I laughed when i read it. Clever I think.

Reply #14 Top

Both completely deliberate - it's a direct copy/paste from somewhere else :grin: