Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It would be a good idea to allow players to move their planetary command centres.

Here's why: when you select a planet in the PI overview, the screen zooms over to your command centre. However, if for whatever reason you have displaced your operations so that they are (say) the other side of the planet, searching for them manually each time can be a real pain. Doing it once is ok. But doing it nine or ten times in a row while updating extractors is a hassle.

Why would one ever move one's extractors and processors? Well, perhaps the market has shifted and you end up producing lucrative commodity X rather than the underperforming Y which you used to make. That sort of thing.

Anyway, it seems to me that allowing us to move our command centres closer to our actual operations would be easy to implement and would save some headaches. And we have an industry expansion coming up. So how about it?

Thanks.

My, my aren't you clever? Did you think of that clever retort all by your self?

By posting this suggestion on the Industry Forum, I'm addressing those who actually care about PI. Features and Ideas is such a mish-mash that PI-related stuff risks not even getting a hearing. If the forum police feel that it should be moved, I'm sure it will be. I don't mind either way.

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Allow us to online/offline structures instead of deleting/re-building in a new location. Applies mostly to Extractors but would be useful for all structures.

Let us move all extractor heads in a "group" similar to probes. So that if we hold down shift then every extractor head moves in the same time as the one you are dragging. Maybe even a "default" or formation button that puts them all in a nice pretty sphere or triangle or something with 1 click.

For the love of all that is holy let us TYPE IN A TIME for extraction! The slide bar is TERRIBLE. Leave the slide bar if you want, but also add a field for # of days and # of hours and # of minutes.

Let us drag/drop items to create routes. Or ctrl+click. Or both.

Let us COPY structures. When setting up 6-8 processors that are all using the same inputs/outputs from the same location and outputting into the same location, having to install the same schematic 6-8 times and recreate the same route 6-8 times is very annoying. Lets us copy then "paste" the same structure with the same schematic then ask us if we would like to save with the same routes, or create new routes.

Let us save planet "templates" (think ship fittings) that includes structure placement, schematics, and routes! We can switch between them and click submit, and use the same template on multiple planets! (assuming planets are of the same type).