Want new buttons?

[Commander G]

Ahhhh...

This thread reminds of one of my pet-pieves. Numerical values that have to be set via buttons. I prefer editable boxes where I can type the number myself.

I hate it in the race designer where I have to hold the arrow down until I get where I want to be. I'd like to just type the value that I want. For building units, it would be nice to just type in a quantity number. Usually, I just pick one turns worth. However, something like Weapon Platforms, I might want to go less than that since they take so much of the cargo space on small planets.

It would be nice to enter an absolute value for population/cargo/unit transfers as well.

Basically, anywhere I have to specify an integer, I'd like to be able to type it.

I'd also like to see thousand separators (based off of the user setting in Windows for international use) used for large integer in a few place, I cannot recall where.

As far as comparing it to Stars!, well Stars! needed a better Cargo system, because you had to have your resource at the planet where construction occurs. Because of the micromanagement of resources in Stars! they had to put that in or no one would ever through the middle game.

What would be really nice is if I could tell the UI to put 50 mines at such and such place and let it use one of the minister controled ships to do it for me. A galactic emperor should tell his empire to mine a warp point and maybe how many to put there, but he should leave it up to the underlings to get it done.