Idea: Displaying Ship's Movement Range

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Ok, so it isn't really a problem until your ships can move about 20 spaces a turn, but how often have you accidentally clicked too far and set your ship on autopilot, so you have to search for it and deactivate it?

I think the map should show the possible movement area of ships (highlighted line, like the life support one).

Alternatively, set an option for the ship called "No Autopilot", so autopilot automatically disables itself at the end of the turn. Perhaps in the main menu we could choose to enable/disable this by default for new ships.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I second both ideas. I think they'd both make it easier and faster to precisely control the movement of your ships.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
IMO the most annoying thing, is that ships on autopilot move at the END of the turn. This means they don't show up as idle as your going through your ships. They may move the extra space, but the rest of their movement is wasted.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The highlighted range of a ship is a very good idea. It would be a square instead of a circle like a constructor. But part of the implementation should require that autopilot be fixed. In it's current state in v1.31 (was the same in v1.2 as well), autopilot doesn't always take the minimum distance path.

The path taken by autopilot is either the straight path followed by the diagonal path or vice versa. This is always a minimum path except when the ship has to go around obstacles. When going around obstacles sometimes a minimum path is followed, but not always. There's almost always a minimum path availble but autopilot seems to want to follow the initially calculated path as close as possible which causes it to zig and zag. This can often add 3 extra moves and I've seen as many as 5 extra moves added. If this isn't fixed the square range display wouldn't always be correct.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Last I checked, the range of the ship is shown on the map. There is a line showing the furthest the ship can travel.

That is all.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What your talking about is the maximum distance a ship can go from your planets. I'm talking about how far your ship can go in a single turn before autopilot becomes enabled.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Evil Muppet, I'm a sympathizer with your interest in minimizing clicks, and I'm suddenly very curious about whether you're local, but that's an Off Topic question...
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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