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Old April 29th, 2004, 11:18 PM
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Default Re: SE4 System Notes

The SE system notes are MUCH to cumbersome to use, have poor editing tools, bad overview and lack any search or list feature.
I use excel and space emires simultaneously and toggle between them when playing. I enter every planet into a list that I can then sort/filter for atmosphere, type and size, much more useful than the planet list in SE. I also enter colonization priorites from 1 to 5 stars so I don't have to think the same thoughts every turn again when searching for the best planet to colonize from a given spaceyard planet. Plus, whenever I start building a colony ship I note where it should go and replace the stars on my list with the turn number planned.
Without this, it often has happend to me that I had double-targeted some planets with 2 colonizers built at different planets. Or that I did not know where a freshly produced colonizer should head because in the meantime all eligible nearby planets of that type already had been colonized.
In large galaxies, like the 20 player NGC games, having to check like 20 different notes windows that can only be viewed one-by-one is equivalent to zero information.
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