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PI - UI Idea
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SyX II
Di Watcher
#1 - 2014-04-13 15:39:45 UTC  |  Edited by: SyX II
Hi,

I`ve been doing a lot of PI for the last 4 months...

Follow bellow some ideas that would definetly save some time for the player:


A - When you enter on planet view you need to be able to speed up that little "planet rotation presentation". I know I can just drag the mouse and search for the extractor, but it sucks sometimes. Like some of you know it goes to the command center and sometimes it isn`t close to the extractor and you have to search around. I would love to be able to jump directly to the extractor. When you have more then 20 planets to manage it gets a little time consuming...

B - When you drag left and right on the extractor to chose how long it will last ( ie: 23:45 hrs )... It woud save me a lot of time if there was some history/shortcut for that last chosen period. everytime that I need to move extractor around it resets...

C - When you setup a processor your have to do one by one the same steps... what about setting routes or schematics/products for more then one processor at the same time? That would be awesome...

Does it all make sense?


Sorry for the writting. English is my second language.

Thank you! Lol

SyX II
scorchlikeshiswhiskey
Totally Abstract
O X I D E
#2 - 2014-04-13 16:10:56 UTC
Sounds fairly reasonable. +1
I haven't done PI in a long time, but I do remember that it can get pretty tedious for no reason.
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-04-13 16:14:17 UTC
having factories default to having input and output for feedstocks and products default to the largest storage on planet would help
Last Wolf
Umbra Wing
#4 - 2014-04-13 23:29:00 UTC
I had some similar suggestions here.

The PI UI/Management is much more tedious than it has to be, and extremely annoying to use, not very intuitive or player friendly.

When players have to rely on out of game 3rd party websites and guides to explain how the **** in your game works, something is very wrong.

That awkward moment at the Gentlemen's Club when you see your sister on the stage....and you're not sure where to put the money....
Xe'Cara'eos
A Big Enough Lever
#5 - 2014-04-14 18:31:12 UTC
a couple of other things that might or might not help:
you can set up your PI to default to the launchpad, and then you can search by installation
a type-in box for cycles, and it'll auto-correct to the nearest allowed value...
custom processor setups would be good, you could plonk down the custom setup and then move the extractor heads and the buildings, but the links would remain.....

For posting an idea into F&I: come up with idea, try and think how people could abuse this, try to fix your idea - loop the process until you can't see how it could be abused, then post to the forums to let us figure out how to abuse it..... If your idea can be abused, it [u]WILL[/u] be.