Outch, nope. Although i've already thrown in a couple of warnings about this tricky bad file (and some others!)... the 1.99rc STILL copied over with the faulty gimmick again (with the usual auto-verification of MY own modifications to default folders & their *right* or *wanted there for good reasons* content).

arrrrggghhh...

As long as they don't go overboard as far as it went in Beta2 of TA, things should be ok.  That as just too much damn money from tourism lol.

11. Widescreen loading screen!

Go on, you know you want to!!

I'll buy you all a !

I just want to be able to shut off the mining popups like I can with all the other ones.  I don't care what group of space miners is leaning towards who.

1 - One thing that annoys me are rally points. I use them all the time, but ithink there should be some extra functions to them. For example, mid game, when i start using rally points: i order all ships from a kind (say, heavy fighters) to move to a rally point. That will send to the rally point both already built ships AND set planets building that ship to send them to the rally point; sometimes i want to rally the ships i already have, sometimes i just want to set planets to a rallypoint without changing the already built ships destination, but i cant do one, i have to do both at the same time. This happens at least one per game, and always makes me think "man, they should fix this".

2 - planetary governors

I LOVE this fuction. LOVE it. Theres just one problem. Why can you move improvements up and down in the governors quere build list if they wont obey it? I mean, i set a governor to build 2 factories, 1 farm, 1 happines building, and many markets, and when i colonize a planet and pick that governor, he queues 1 happines, 1 farm, and then mixes 1 1 market 1 factory 1 market 1 factory etc... The governor picks his own priority order, and factories, who are supposed to speed the development, are ALWAYS on the end. ALWAYS.

3 - more on governors

after you set your planetary governor to build things in a certain order, as soon as you leave the planetary governor editing screen, he will reajust the improvements on his list in alphabetical orderor sometihng like that (bu he wont obey that order too).

4 - even more on governors

The "CLEAR" button is WAY too close to the "DONE "button. I've erased my building lists SO MANY TIMES ALREADY!!!  Please, move that button away from the corner.

5 - I would like to see more info on the tactical zoom level. Sometimes its hard to see which planets belongs to who, or what kind of a ship youre facing (transports or military), so i zoom a little out 'till i get to the tactical zoom level. But once i zoom out to that, i rarely come back to the non-tactical view level. The game is pretty, planets are nice looking, ships are cool, but the tactical zoom level is so much more comfortable to play with. Except that it contais a lot less informations. What i would REALLY like to see in the tactical view is planet names (without having to hover my mouse on them) and turns-to-destination under my ships (so i dont have to zoom in to see how long until they reach their destination).

6 - Sometimes i send a colony ship to a distant planet, and forget about it. Suddenly, while im playing, after clicking new turn, a new planet opens up, and i have to set a governor to it, except i have no idea where that planet is located. Give us an option to move the game screen to that planet before opening up the planet surface screen. This would REALLY help me since i most play gigantic maps.

7 - Even better, (oh boy i would love this): when you colonize a planet, a pop up box should, pop up,  and ask me if i want to pick a governor for that planet (from a drop-down list, without opening the planet screen), or if i want to edit that planet personally. Or at least make it possible to pick a governor from the planet main screen, without having to go to the "Details" page for each and every one of my 300 planets

8 - LEASES. Ridicullous. "Do you want to pay 3000 bc, or do you want to pay 500bc + 100bc for 400 turns?" Reduce a little the cost of altermative leases options, or i wont even use anything other than "Terran Manufacturysomething"

9 - Make some way for us to manually heal a starbase. Maybe burn a constructor to heal ('rebuild') it, or money, i dunno...

10 - Make wormholes permanent, and not 1-time-use! That would be AWESOME!

I think thats what i want for now... Ill put something else later.

I know what I want added for rally points!

I want a planet (Even one you don't own) and a starbase to have a toggle accessible from the main map screen that adds and deletes a Rally Point of the same name at it's location.

Not Always on - I asked for that before, but I was wrong, always on would clutter your rally point Gui, but a click box that just toggles a rally point on there when needed that then shows up in the Rally Point governors just like any other.

Upgrading a starbase, toggle on the rally point, redirect your constructors. Done - toggle it off and redirect the contructors elsewhere. Colonizing a planet - toggle it's rally point on, tell the planet building the colony vessel to direct it's output there, and let it go.

I've been doing this with Rally points manually anyway, but you have to set them up manually, and it's a bit of a pain, but I honestly think this ought to be an easy improvement to add?

Jonnan

This is doable now, at least in TA. Possibly later versions of DA as well, it's been a while. Run a constructor into the base, and one of the options you get is Starbase Repair Module. Heals 20 hp, IIRC.

Note that it is currently bugged (still running latest non-beta TA patch, maybe they fixed this?) You need at least one actual module available to add to use the repair module, otherwise you get the "no modules available" message. Even if I fortify the base all the way, I leave the sensor modules off to allow this - I have Eyes, what else do I need?

Popup messages for culture flipping.  Rather than showing all those individual messages that need to be clicked through, just summarise the losses and gains in the turn summary.  An option checkbox for this at least.

Just a thought here, but also perhaps the mining outposts might be operated by (a subsidiary of) the manufacturers that you can lease from.  Accordingly, one advantage of leasing might be that outposts controlled by the leasing firm you do most business with should be more resistant to culture, because they like your money.

It would be a good idea if the colony manager highlighted (or even, had a sort for) recently-converted colonies.

any chance the editors will get some attention? i haven't used them all thoroughly, but the map editor does have a bug that causes custom maps to crash the game; i think it's something related to asteroids, because custom maps don't crash if i don't use asteroids.

one feature i'd like to see implemented which was scrapped from DL in the beginning is starbase docking! what's the point in having starbases if your ships can't dock for repairs or anything like that?! Crime is another thing that should have been implemented, but as of yet has not been.

-Dave

I'd like Influence trading to get the same treatment as money trading -- when you select it, it should automatically go to the highest value that still results in a green trade (If it doesn't go to maximum anyway, that is).

Edit: I'd also like the ability to include all of the Major Races (And my own Custom, of course) in a single game.

Edit 2: Also, automatic removal of ships that I delete from the Ship List would be great, too. As it stands at the moment, the list needs to be closed and then reopened in order for the deleted ships to vanish from it.