Knowing when an enemy enters a system

[duggold]

Is there a way to easily tell when an enemy
ship enters a system you control or have ships in? I would really love the mini-map to
have a blinking circle or something if there
was an enemy ship just so I can tell when stuff is coming at me. I really don't want to click on each of my systems each turn just to visually check.

Thanks!
Doug

[G-top]

Mine or use Sats at each of the warp points.

But yes I agree in advance (grin) that that is a lot of extra work.

[duggold]

That is a good way to detect ships entering via warp points but how do you detect ships that enter via newly created warp points or detecting decloaking ships?

Doug

[Jubala]

Actually, the minimap has this function already. When another empire is in the system there's a small (very small) triangle in the circle of that system. Hard to see, but it's there.

[Shadow99]

Actually the triangle is only there if you have vessels/planets in that system as well... I use a large sat with scanners & a cloaking device (very expensive) for monitoring my systems, but it works well in all non-nebula systems...

[Commander G]

I'd like to see Malfador enhance the notication window to include a message that an enemy or allie has entered such and such system with an option to turn the feature off or filter it.

Maybe it should only do it once when you first see a ship or fleet so that you only get the message once. This would probably be harder to program than just always giving the notification.