Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

Sliders are innaccurate, imprecise, and just not good overall for most purposes.

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

Instead of sliders how about:

Move 1
Move 5
Move 10
Other
Move All

And when you click "Other" a little box pops up and you type in the amount you want transfered! maybe even leave that number up until the player changes it again. So it would look like...

Move 1
Move 5
Move 10
Other 512
Move All

[ April 07, 2003, 16:00: Message edited by: jimbob ]

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

This has probably been mentioned already, but:

A Player logs file that you can keep all of your game notes in. This should be saved as a simple test document for offline reading and editing as well.

I know you can make notes per system, but you can't even do simple formating like a carriage return.

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

Copy a carriage return in wordpad, and then you can paste it into the system notes. Before 1.84, you could do carriage returns in the system notes because hitting the enter key did not select ok. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hoho this is an awesome idea!
I'll add to my Version of Proportions a cheap colonization module with no population cargo space to build "outPosts" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Humm, I wonder if the AI would use it, or worst, what if the AI starts colonizing planets without population?..... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

That would be very easy to abuse. Colonies are next to worthless with only a few million pop in Proportions anyways. They only start being useful after a number of transports have increased the pop level. 1 less million starting pop makes little difference if you follow the colony ship with some transports anyways.

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

Prearranged resource conVersion and trades - e.g. give an order that "from now on, every N turns I'll convert X organics to minerals", and "every N turns I give you X minerals for Y radioactives".

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

You can have prearranged resource conVersion. Hit the Convert button, place your orders, hit OK, then click Repeat Orders. I'm using it right this minute in a PBW game (Okay, not this minute, but whenever the turn processes...).

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Older guys like me remember that a carriage return is a CTRL-M. This works in the system notes as a carriage return. Now where is my Geritol.

Slick.

Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
 

no need for slider. as i said:
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">4 clicks and you could transfer 1000.
5 clicks and you could transfer 2000.
5 clicks and you could transfer 10000.