Interface improvements
 

Hi.

Just bought this game at Fry's and started playing it. I like it!

After playing for a while, though, there are some interface improvements I'd like to suggest that would just make life a lot better.

I don't know if things like this have been suggested before but I browsed through the forum a bit and didn't see anything, so here are my ideas:

The Colony Window - why is it two clicks to get to each area? Seeing how often we use this window, there's a lot of extra mousing and clicking going on here. Couldn't each area (Galactic News Center, Terran Contact, etc) just be a button? Also, it would be great if right-clicking the mouse was the same as pressing the "close" button. These two things would cut way down on unnecessary mousing and clicking, and would speed up the interface too.

The Jobs Window / Commerce Guild - it sure would be great if, when you had this window open your mission list window would open off to the side. That way I could see where I'm headed next which helps me decide which jobs are best. As it stands currently you have to quit all the way back to your ship to bring up the mission list.

If you didn't use the Colony Window of the Job Window very often these things wouldn't be an issue, but you can use them hundreds of times in a session, and making these little changes would give the interface a slicker feel, and help prevent RSI issues!

Thanks for your time.
Macross

Re: Interface improvements
 

Our first retail customer has found his way onto these boards! Only took 10 days from the release date.

You've got some good suggestions here, but I sincerely doubt they'll get implemented. You see, Starfury's original release through Shrapnel Games was way back in September 2003, it got patched up through January 2004, and no further development on it has been seen since. The rerelease through Strategy First was strictly to bring it to the retail market as an effort, combined with the upcoming retail release of Space Empires IV, to introduce the Space Empires series to the general public in preparation for Space Empires V, expected late this year. Space Empires V is currently in beta testing and will be the very first title in the series to be initially offered at retail.

BTW, I'd like to know how you found this forum. Was it mentioned on the box or in the manual somewhere, or did you have to search for it?

Re: Interface improvements
 

The author has hinted of a possible Starfury 2, however. That would be after SE V is released and relatively stable (after a few patches because new bugs are always found when software is released to the public http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif ).

Re: Interface improvements
 

HEY! "New Meat" (kidding)...welcome to our clan!
hope to see you posting more http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif