Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello,

PI seems to be a part of the game that has been left alone for along time. The only recent change is the introduction to player own customers office. This is grand but i have a few ideas that could improve and reduce some of the repetitive parts of PI.

the first possibility would be to automatically drop your drill heads in a predefined pattern. Similar how the probes are dropped in the updates to scanning.
So you can select all ten drill heads. click the formation button and it would drop the in 3 - 4 - 3 patter. where the top and bottom row fit in the gaps of the middle row of 4. then if you reduce or increase the time you want to drill you can click a button a re-adjust the patten.

Custom patterns could be created if needed to a diagonal line of 5 rows ot 2.
One dropped and happer clicking and dragging one would move the entire formation at the same rate to keep the same patter. With a SHIFT + Click to move one.


the second option could be to record a macro or batch select buildings.
lets say i have a planet with 15 buildings. 1 drill head, 1 warehouse, 1 lauch pad and the default command center. that would leave me with 11 other buildings. if they are all level 1 just to process the raw materials to be shipped to market or another planet. i would have to click the building. select the item i want to make, select the location i want the item delivered then select where the item is coming from. for one or two buildings this isn't to long but for 11 its rather a lot of clicks.
my suggestion is giving us the ability to select multiple buildings and carry out the actions once. or recording a macro and having a drop down to say use "plan 1" which would copy the actions over to that installation.

A new skill could be introduced to allow you to control more buildings. level 1 would be as it is. lvl 2 would allow you to control 4 at once, all the way up to 5 which would allow you to control 15 buildings..