managing empires

[Fyron]

Did you do a search for it? If I ever need to make notes, I just use text files.

[SamuraiProgrammer]

I actually use M$ Excel.

I have a sheet that I enter each planet and moon I come across. I the sort it by the different columns to find the information I want.

I realize that you can sort the columns in the game report, but this way I can log the colony ship ID with the planet it is heading for so I can send it there when it loses its orders. (This happens if it picks up colonists on another planet or hits a waypoint to pick up supplies.) I used to put every colony ship into its own fleet and embed the destination in the fleet name.

This alone has made me at least twice as efficient in expansion.

I have considered writing a program to log some data, but have not decided whether to invest the time.

Also, I extensively use Ctrl+B to go from ship to ship (only the ones who don't have orders).

When I started using Ctrl+B, it cut my turn time in half. I am not joking... half!

[Skulky]

I did find it, and i just noticed that when you roll the cursor over systems in the system viewing window (after enlargin it with r-click) it shows notes. So its better (that is in 1.49 too)

EDIT:

I thought the command was also, I think it woudl be nice if we could see better data analysis/collection capabilites. I wanna be able to look back at a succesful empire (not neccesarily mine) and say "what did they do that i didn't do?" and then look at another empire (more likely mine) and say "what did they do wrong" maybe even write a program that could take 50+ turns and then analyze them for information (how about those nasty txt files included in some PBW zips that seem to mean nothing)? Just a thought and sadly my lack of programming experience means its one i can't do anythign about, like the calculator idea.

[ September 15, 2002, 05:50: Message edited by: Skulky ]