Interface improvement suggestions for patch

[LintMan]

I'd like to see some improvements to the all-colony construction page (the one that shows the build queues of all your colonies, shipyards):

1) column sorting doesn't work on this page, and this should be added.

2) I'd like to be able to filter the list to only show currently colonies/yards with active queues or empty ones, only ones running on emergency build, only ones with shipyards, only colony ones, only colonies with open facility slots, or some combination of those, like only showing colonies with open facil slots and an empty queue. In other words, those filters would all be checkboxes, so if you checked multiple ones off, they would all be active.

I'd also like to have a screen that showed all colonies and ALL facilities in them, in a sortable fashion, and also search/filter-able. so you could select only those colonies that had spaceports, say. The current colony screen is pretty worthless for this.

[WhiteHojo]

The check box would work for me - anything to keep from having to switch back/forth for each race

Also, minor point that I personally find annoying.... Somehow set as either default or make it selectable, but if a colony is set to build as emergency, then give that colony PRIORITY when allocating limited resources in the construction queues. Nothing more agravating than having a colony run up several emergency build turns only to find that nothing has been built because other colonies were ahead of it in whatever priority format the computer uses in assigning resources to construction projects
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[This message has been edited by WhiteHojo (edited 29 January 2001).]