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PI - This needs looking at
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Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
#1 - 2013-07-29 20:16:11 UTC
Surely one of the worst and needless aspects of the game is the amount of mouse clicking required when one sets up a factory planet in PI.

It takes too many clicks to delete all of the routes from one central hub. Why do we have to select each item in turn and then click on delete; why can't be select a range of routes?

Then to create an item route takes five clicks from where the goods land (usually the spaceport) for each component to each factory takes far too long to set up. A twenty factory set up with two components requires 200 clicks to get these sorted out. Three component items take 300 clicks and this is far, far too many.

It's the same with changing the blueprints. It takes too many clicks to select all the blue prints. Why not be able to select a group of factory units, say that they are all making item XYZ and then they are all routing the product to a certain destination.

There are too many clicks involved and make a mistake and the last sixty or seventy clicks will have to be scrapped.

Please, please fix this as it's killing me.

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Ithilien Audene
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-08-07 09:31:56 UTC
I have to definitely agree with this post - PI is a great way to earn passive income, but it's a pain in the arse to set up. Even if you double click everything, it takes forever... and if you mess a certain route up, but wait to hit submit until all the routes are set up, it's faster to simply scrap all the routes you just spent so much time clicking, rather than go back through and try to find the one, simple mistake.

Why not program PI set-up like dragging items in space into your cargo hold? For example, you could drag the icon for a planetary commodity to a factory, spaceport, etc... and set up routes and links that way. It would dramatically reduce the amount of time it would take to set up a planet, and it'd be a lot less painful.