rants about small stuff!

[gbraley]

* Save my start-a-new-game settings
Don't make me re-click every setting from the default each time I start a new game. Save the Last things I clicked.

* Don't reset to the top of the list
When I am doing something, and I cancel or finish working in a sub-menu, keep my previous choice selected, don't reset to the top of the list. This happens pretty often, an example is if I am editing an empire in game startup, and finish or cancel, the first empire in the list is selected.

* Let me save empires as "controlled by computer"
Don't make me edit each time I start a game-let me save the empire as I want it saved.

* Don't let non-treatied empires fight without declaring war
This isn't small - two empires without treaties can ravage the heck out of each other without going to war. This just isn't right. I think it was Civ that asked you for confirmation of a DOW if you wanted to attack somebody. This is very abusable against the AI. Besides, I am tired of losing my first or second colony to somebody's stupid first contact vessel. It is just crazy to imagine every race promptly attacking an alien species that it just came into contact with (though some might).

* If I select a ship then refit, select the ship!
If I select a ship, and then I select the refit button, I then have to select the ship again. Credit me with knowing which ship to refit and have that one pre-selected for me.

* Intel still ain't quite right
I still get odd results with intel. The only time enemy intel succeeds against me is the turn all of my counter-intel projects finish (!) If I try to stagger the CI projects, they all synch up within a few turns. They all take much, much less time than they are supposed to.

* Odd wormholes are tedious
Right now, can you guess what's on the other side of the malformed wormhole? You guessed it! A black hole! Every time! Woo hoo! How about making a small percentage of all wormholes abnormal? Maybe a random event to change type once in a while.

* How about some good random events?
Every random event I've seen has been negative, how about some positive ones? I'm sure I could think up a few dozen interesting/helpful/fun ones.

Well, that's enough for now...

Scott