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Small easy PI update
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Aarin Wrath
Dominion Strategic
#1 - 2014-04-08 02:11:27 UTC
Hey CCP,
When doing PI its really annoying to upgrade routes. You have to open the route each time you want to move up a single level.
Could you guys make it so you can pick the level ... say with a slider?
Also, could you make it so that the PI route icons (the moving dotted lines) change color or hue as they are upgraded?
Right now I can't see which PI routes are lvl V and which are basic ... What?

Just an idea ...
Endovior
PFU Consortium
#2 - 2014-04-08 03:25:46 UTC
I'll be honest, and say that I don't see the need for this.

PI is a major component of my income, and I almost never need to upgrade routes. Like much of the difficulty in PI, it's something you need to do at the start of the process, when you're first setting up a planet... and then you shouldn't have to do it again ever. I'd hold it pretty much self-evident that if you have to go back multiple times to check on the upgrade status of a link, you're doing something wrong.

That said... the PI UI isn't amazing to begin with, and there's probably some QoL improvements that could be done to make it better. I still can't see why you'd have a particular need to upgrade a given link more than once, or why it'd be immediately relevant what that upgrade level is (beyond 'route is maxed out, or nearly so' > 'needs an upgrade', which is already visually obvious with mouseover percentages), but if there's some specific way that could be made more intuitively obvious for your particular use-case, I'm not actually opposed to that.