[Fyron]

I mean for one, in trading star maps, do you really want to trade the maps of certain systems, or take the Civ3 approach and trade the whole thing.

Yes, I really do want to trade individual system maps. I don't want the enemy to know about my core systems. Certainly, there should be an option to add all system maps to the trade offer, but the ability to trade only specific system maps must remain. I for one hate the Civ3 approach to this. It is far more of a problem than a benefit.

Another thing would be why require three resources if only one is really needed much? Just make it one resource: money.

Although the stock game does not make very good use of the 3 resources, there are a lot of mods that do. Pirates and Nomands and Adamant mods do, for example.

Or how about an option that tells when a planet's queue is finished and is awaiting orders.

You can see this with the construction window, which displays all construction queues. Click on the title of the field that shows what is being constructed. Now, empty queues will be sorted to the top. To make this even more useful, you can set the view to show number of facilities on each planet. Then, click on the column for the facilities, then the column for what is being constructed. This way, you get planets ordered by what is being built, then how many facilities are currently on the planet (ship and base SYs get sorted as 0).

Another thing you can do is create a unit, such as a small troop, named "_End of Queue". Add this to the end of queues. Each turn when you check the construction queue window, you will see which queues are meant to be buiding things, but are at the end.

[ June 03, 2004, 01:10: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]