Re: Ideas for UI improvement
The sorting definitely can be improved, but you can do some powerful things with it in its current condition.
My example is the Colonizable Planets window. I'm always trying to figure out the best planets to send my ships to.
If you want to sort by any column heading, just click on it. The only ones that are weird are the first two columns. The first column is "picture", but when you click on it, it sorts by planet SIZE. The second column sorts by the name, basically grouping by system. There is no way to sort by the planet TYPE (rock, ice, gas) if you have the ability to colonize both.
You CAN do a secondary sort, however. If you want to see the highest-resource planets grouped by atmosphere, click on the Resouce column FIRST, then click on the atmosphere column.
What I'd REALLY like in this window is a way to exclude systems. If I've been through a populated system and then left, I remember what the planets were like but I can't "remember" where the enemy/ally colonies are. Therefore my list is cluttered with "colonizable" planets from enemy/ally systems that I know are really not colonizable.
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