Hi, first off fun game. Got this a week ago.
My clicker finger is getting tired playing this game so much, if there were a few hotkey additions I think the UI / ease of play would improve quite a bit. The following are new hotkey functions I would like to see.
1. Hotkey to open the build screen on your selected planet, shipyard or starbase.
2. Hotkeys to cycle select and focus on your planets, shipyards, or starbases.
3. Hotkey to buy or cancel a build order.
4. Hotkey to move between the colonies, ship, shipyards, starbases, rally points, and notifications lists menu on the far right.
5. Hotkey to open up the menus at the top (victory, govern, technology, ideology, dip, designer)
6. Bigger ask: I play a custom race with coercion. I am constantly clicking and setting the sliders on my planet govern screen, then going to look at the shipyard assosciated with it. Basically trying to min/max my production of the planet item im building and the shipyard. In the planet govern screen, it would be a super big help to be able to see on that screen how many turns the item I'm building has left, and how many turns the shipyard assigned to that planet has to build the next ship. So that one screen is all I need to use instead of three.
7. Not a hotkey, but it would be great if you could see how much production a planet item or ship needs to complete by hovering over the item. If my ship is half way to build I can't tell exactly how much production I need to finish it, and have to guestimate with the slider.
8. Lastly it would be great if leftover production would roll over into the next item to be built, maybe at a penalty (your planet has 50production/turn, it takes 10 to complete your item, so 40 rolls over into the next item, maybe at a 50% penalty so only 20 of the 40 roll over... if this was in place there would be less of an OCD need to tweak the sliders every turn.
[EDIT] 9. Another BIG thing I've seen others suggest is: Be able to select which ship you want to respond to a starbase request for constructor; people customize the constructors but ya have to manually manage it... would be a HUGE benefit to playability.
Thanks for listening!
