Yeah, me too a few days ago when the guys were talking about it in some other topic ^^

It should be checked by default!

Because it has exactly what you want on it and nothing else, no useless clutter. The default just fills up with everything you discover, but most of the time you only really care about having quick access to a handful of things.

I think that it should also list all planets with shipyards

And it should also list any planet attacked by pirates.

Then it will be the ultimate UI

I just number my planets, all planets with a shipyard have thier own hotkey.


I was so exited when I discoved I can put planets as numbers, and have ships automaticly join fleets.
I have never even heard of that done before in a game.

after I learnd those two things.


I can't stand to use the normal empire tree, I can only use the selection based one.
But I still think the normal one should be used by default, simply so noobs know what it is.

I believe by setting the rally point to a ship belonging to a fleet. Then the newly produced ship will automatically join the fleet. Correct me if I'm wrong though, someone, as I don't really use this feature

This isnt a noob issue , or a "help me i suck , i need to know where the pirates are issue"

Its a matter of consistency in the game because the default empire bar detects pirate raids since you can see a hugh mass of gray pips at one of the planets in your list , but you wont see this in the selection bar.

I like the default better too, but maybe I need more time with the selection bar. I tend to juggle several fronts at the same time so being able to see more than the current selection is important.

I need to practice more with adding critical points to the selection bar I guess.

Thats not inconsistent, but it is -- from some perspectives -- unfortunate. You have the choice of information overload (with the standard bar), or being limited to information you have selected (selection based). A customizable bar, either going from "normal" and subtractive or being "Selection based" and additive, would work far better. (Of course, the devs could go whole-hog and provide both -- its easy enough by simply making "selection based" / "Normal" a macro, instead of a toggle, which set the various toggle options to be what the macro is set for. Have the "selection" part of the selection based macro be a toggle not normally selected for the full empire, since it wouldn't be needed.)

(Edit: Word choice is important, inconsistent was not the word you needed, even if it was, perhaps, the best available)

... ./goes back into options to see if he might have missed something.