Making notes on a map - suggestion
 

It would be nice if one could leave notes to one's self on the "strategic" map and on the "tactical" map - reminding you of exactly where the enemy's main planets are, for example, so you don't have to keep a unit in the enemy's home system in order to view this...

Or is this already possible?

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Right click on the galaxy map in the lower right will give you a new window with a larger galaxy map. Then you can left click on a system in that map to get a note pad.

Geo

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Unfortunately, this method is a pain in th a** to use. You have no idea whether a system has notes or not, and you have to check all of them to see what notes you had made and where you made them.

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Not only that - it also doesn't let you make notes on the tactical map at all. So if you know where his homeworld is you have to remind yourself on the strat map that it is Utekra X or whatever then find it on the tactical map.

And as the other person in this thread pointed out you can't easily tell which systems have notes. What you should be able to do is leave one of several different kinds of icons beside each system (one for "danger", one for "empty" and so on) so you could visually scan and know the rough "shape" of your universe.

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Ahem, there is also a lovely border view somewhere in the window below the alien head.

You can see the location of the races for every known system there, even with radio buttons to switch on/off some races.

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I know about border view but it doesn't give enough info. Is the system just colonised with a tiny colony or is it full of heavily defended systems?

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derb,
I use "NotePad". It is very easy to "Alt Tab" back and forth. Each game has its own file carefuly organized so I can find what I'm looking for. Yes, this is more work than many want to do, It works for me.

Re: Making notes on a map - suggestion
 

A while back, there was a thread that discussed alternate programs for taking/organizing notes.

Strategy/Note-taking thread

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Unfortunately, this method is a pain in th a** to use. You have no idea whether a system has notes or not, and you have to check all of them to see what notes you had made and where you made them.<hr></blockquote>
I do agree that the system noets feature leaves much to be desired. However I did notice something interesting just today. If you make notes on a system, you can see them without actually clicking on the system. In the galaxy map view, if you mouse over each system it shows notes if there are any in the bottom margin. What would be really nice though is if you could highlight the systems that have notes without having to mouse over them. And it would also be nice to see the notes on the system map somewhere.

Geo

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Hmm... I had forgotten about that. But its still not very useful.

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
Ahem, there is also a lovely border view somewhere in the window below the alien head.
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I use this all the time to gauge borders... but it doesn't work if another empire decides to claim NO systems in that map. I've seen a few players do that....

Quikngruvn

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Knowing where each enemy is not AS difficult, nor as important. first of all i usualy just remember their location, works fine for me. But i never played too seriously, now i plan some serious games.

Most useful seems to be the combination of both - put notes in important systems, and write the strategies, plans, whatever in notepad. Or on a paper.

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If you actually claim the systems that you have planets in then you are either:

a) 250+% better htan everyone and can be arrogant and powerful like that

b) are really dumb beacuse now your enemies just found out somethign about without doing any work. Wanna know how some people always know where the AI is? or where you are? I just turn on random places and get dumb folks to send their entire fleets looking for my 40 soem planets all in 3 systems. Hello?

Sorry about that flamboyant and flameish remark but really, u shouldn't claim systems.

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Works fine in a non-RP game, but pull that stunt with people RPing, and you'll probably get put down like a rabid dog http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Too insane to be left around..

Phoenix-D