: bump :
(BTW, I think it would be really cool if this button let you turn on or off the display of the trade routes others have with you - sometime I can't see enough detail to known which planet I don't have a route to yet because of all the other lines.)

That would be a great use of thebutton- like a toggle. EXPORTS/IMPORTS

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'This is the thread that enver ends, my friend, this is the...'

This is the thread that never ends.
It goes on and on, my friend.
Some people posted, not knowing what it was,
For this is the thread that never ends.

'(BTW, I think it would be really cool if this button let you turn on or off the display of the trade routes others have with you - sometime I can't see enough detail to known which planet I don't have a route to yet because of all the other lines.)'

And incidentally, this sounds like a good idea to me.

~SDC~

LOL how can we not have had an answer by now? I have also posted this question on other threads. Nothing.

/boggle

olaf

I think Brad is too highly amused by the thread as it is to end it for us.

~SDC~

I have a feeling that this button is supposed to do either a) toggle between showing your routes and all routes on the map and/or toggle between showing your routes/all routes on the table of route info.

Hopefully this will get fixed, as the map sure does get crowded with routes late in the game.

olaf

In the meantime, though, our quest shall continue!

~SDC~

Yessiree...

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Ni!

Oops, sorry, wrong knights...

Come on, doesn't ANYBODY know what this button does??

- Ash

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LOL come on!

olaf

Go to sleep now, Olaf.

~SDC~

I may not be right here but I believe that the buton was placed in the game to show us all, each and every one of us, just how inquisitive some members of the human race can be.

Elrikk

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If that were the case, shouldn't the button have "Do not press" written on it in large red letters, and do something really nasty?

That's an interesting question, but do you refer to an African "Show All" button or an European one ? LOL LOL

I think in a forthcoming patch Brad will change the functionality of that button from whatever it is it does (what is it, BTW?) to open a browser into this thread. Kinda self-recursive, you know?

Astro

It's the anticipation that you'll fondly remember, Olaf, not the answer

I have a spare hour on friday to check the code behind the now infamous "Show All" button. I'll get back to you then.

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OK, so I was curious too, so i just looked into it. It's supposed to toggle between showing all the trade routes that you're associated with, and just the routes that you initiated. Right now it's not working (obviously), but we'll put that on our list for the next patch.

Thanks for catching that one, olaf Much appreciated.

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Wahooooooooooo! First post after an official answer, first post!!!!!!!!

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Thanks for the response. That ought to clean up the little route map a little too.

olaf

Thank you, Olaf, for tracking this down. That button has been taunting me for days.

Only days!?!?

I think more buttons that do nothing should be implemented, just to screw around with people.

I remember a game called Suikoden for the Playstation, it was an rpg and in one town there was a building, that had some stairs leading up, but they were blocked. Well people assumed there was some quest involved to unblock the stairs, so people searched high and low on how to open this up. People went nuts looking for a way to open this thing, just because it was there. Turns out it was nothing. hehe