Whats so bad about the UI????

[Theonlystd]

The example that leaps off my head. Moving Population to a freighter.

I gotta find the tiny little button in the right hand corner for moving. That screen comes up. Wheres the handy move 1,10,100 from Se4?!??!?! Not there. I have to go down to the bottom and increase the unit count thingy or click 20bajillion times to add 10mil people to the ship. Maybe theres some key i can hold to make me add 10 in a click or something. But thats a step back. In se4 i click on 100 click on the population a couple times and the ships full and rdy to move.

And well things that are just lacking from the whole series. This is the 5th installment y cant i double click on a planet to bring up the que or something? Y do i still have to click on the plant then click on the que button

[Ragnarok-X]

A day ago news regarding the Optimus were released. It will feature only a black/white mode and will cost 1200 $ when it is being released, going down to 1000 $ later.

Anyone ?


Moving pop a pain, yeah.

[Raapys]

In this very off-topic thread I'd like to continue the trend: Doesn't anyone else find it a little strange that we're supposedly transporting millions of people in a smallish cargo ship? And that a recently established colony can pump out huge starships in a matter of 'months'?

Yeah, I know, mods and all. I'm just wondering, where did this idea come from originally? I mean, it's nowhere realistic that a year after we establish a colony on Mars we'll have millions of people there and build dozens of ships a year.

So that leaves the reason that it must have been done for gameplay. Which begs the question: would it really be so bad if the home colony continued to be the main base of operations for the entire game( except troop-occupied homeworlds taken from enemies)? MoO3 deals with this a little better, as it takes quite some time to actually get a colony operational( slow moving population, lots of things has to built on colonies ), and very long to make it production efficient. I wouldn't say it lowers the 'fun' of the game any, though.

[Atrocities]

This is why we need progressive ship building capabilities. You can't even build a ship yard until your population reaches X amount. Then the yard is only X amout useful until population increases are met or expansion yards are built.

I like to limit my colony ships to 1 million population and require more engines for the ships. I have thought about making colony ships huge costly ships but that would just slow the AI down and make it a lot harder for players.

There is a give and take from game play vs reality. You just got to go with the flow and ignor the obvious at times.

[Suicide Junkie]

You mean the whole "population required to operate facility" thing that was tried and then dropped in SE4 too?

[Atrocities]

Suicide Junkie said:
You mean the whole "population required to operate facility" thing that was tried and then dropped in SE4 too?

Ya sure whatever works.

[Suicide Junkie]

Of course, you could always just plug in realistic population modifiers...

http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/...opModifier.zip

Say, 5% build rate for 1M people and add 1% rate for every 20M people added after that.