Fixing the Horrid UI

[Suicide Junkie]

...a floating window which would appear alongside a selected unit which would only contain applicable buttons (reducing wasted space)
Do you know about the right click order menu? Select a unit, then right click (on the destination in case of remote actions) and select from the menu.

Also, try turning off the alpha sort (and use KwokStock if you aren't already). Instead of "Ion engines" being completely separate from "Quantum", things will look much more like a hardware catalog, and you won't even need the filters.

[AstralWanderer]

Suicide Junkie said:
Do you know about the right click order menu? Select a unit, then right click (on the destination in case of remote actions) and select from the menu.

Yes I do know - and as you are doubtless aware this menu is very large since it includes options relating to the system and planet (if applicable). It should be possible to left-click on a unit, move the cursor no more than 1-2cm onscreen before left-clicking on an order before selecting a destination (if necessary).

A radial menu (as used in Neverwinter Nights) would make a good choice here since (cascading) submenus could be handled quite easily.

[Suicide Junkie]

That there would be quite nice.
Changing the right click menu to a radial thing. Cargo orders to the right, move/attack at the top. Reports on the left. Stellar manip, retrofits, and miscellaneous at the bottom.

[Yimboli]

AstralWanderer said:
A radial menu (as used in Neverwinter Nights) would make a good choice here since (cascading) submenus could be handled quite easily.

Quite nice indeed. It seems too high of an expectation for a post-release game. My bet is we never see a design change to the right click menu. Plus I think we have bigger fish to fry.