Tell me WHAT instead of WHO are in a fleet!

[CW]

My Space Force in a certain PBW game has ballooned into a 519-ships administrative nightmare. I've a main naval base on a ringworld where I park all of my ships that are not immediately needed. There are also 9 warp points and a WP opener in the same sector. When a mission comes up I would pick an idling fleet, equip it with the ships from the Standby Pool and send them on the way. In this way I can send a 200+ ships fleet anywhere in the galaxy with only 1 turn notice. Sounds great doesn't it? In practice though it can get quite frustrating and chaotic when you have multiple missions poping up, due to the way fleets and ships are currently displayed. Very often I've no idea what I'm actually sending against the enemy, I pick my ships almost at random simply because I don't have the time to sort out the mess. Instead of a big list of ship names, I'm MUCH more interested in WHAT's actually in a fleet and WHAT's in a sector but I'm not patient enough to tally up with pen and paper every turn. I really hope MM will put in a condensed list feature that simply lists the numbers of different classes of ships in a fleet or in a sector.

One more thing that I've brought up before but not mentioned in the fixed list for the upcoming patch - There is absolutely no point having the ships list in the fleet transfer window jump back to the top every time a ship is selected into a fleet. I get really mad when I have to scoll through that thing 200 times in a roll.


[This message has been edited by CW (edited 14 October 2001).]