If the boarding ship added a tag to the boarded ship so that if it is captured it would then be added to the Admin command where that boarding ship currently is then that may make sense and make it easier to spot and deal with. Any boarding ships after that just update the tag (though they are all probably using the same Admin).
Any chance of having a Time until order completed to the right of the orders list, either in a (Bracket) after the order or in a new thin Column. Just needs to be XXXXD, XXXXH or XXXXM (Days, Hours, Minutes. Whichever the counter is up to by then).
Column would be best due to name lengths meaning it could be pushed off screen if it was just in a bracket at the end of the order. But that may mean a lot more coding work for you.
Do you mean the ship that has been captured, is added to the same command that the ship from where the boarding action occured was added, then yes. thats probably better than my assign button.
With your solution it can be silently added to that command.
Allows for more dynamic auto add to naval commands where boarding actions are taking place at the same time, in different places/naval commands.
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You might consider creating extra NAC nodes so that you can keep your fleets somewhere other than directly under the root. I currently have 1195 fleets and hereâs my current collapsed list:
Super easy to find and manage the new captured ships this way.
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In the Galactic Map, could we have another display mode, to be able to show in the map the various types/classes of ships that are around?
In the tab there should be the list of only the classes we have built, from where we could select the type(s) to show.
The list of the classes should upgrade when a new type is built, or when the last ship of a type is destroyed/scrapped or so.
SJW: The Icon Display tab already does that.
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Thank you, Steve!
I never used that tab.
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The Economics Summary tab lists the colonyâs thermal signature first and EM second. The Intelligence windowâs Known Population tab lists EM contact strength first and thermal second.
Could you swap the order of one or the other? Thermal then EM is probably the more âcorrectâ order as it would match the class design window.
I usually try to gauge the extent of population contacts by comparing them to my own colonies, and it always confuses me for a moment when theyâre âbackwardsâ to each other.
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Economics window, Civilian/Flags tab: if there are items assigned to a demand or to a supply, could it be possible to double click that assignment to show the civilian ship(s) that are transporting those items (in the Naval Organization window)?
Sometimes, it seems that civs take too much time to deliver a shipment. Showing which ship(s) are assigned to it, we can check if it is OK, IMO.
Set a floor on the civilian transport revenue calculations so they donât get paid ~0 wealth for short (e.g. Earth to Moon) moves, to account for the opportunity cost of loading/unloading. There could be some complicated calculations but it would probably also be fine to just set the minimum distance in the payment calculation to 100 m km regardless of how short it actually is. Thatâs about 28 hours of travel at 1000 km/s, which seems reasonable to me considering that their loading and unloading might take days or a week+ depending on tech level and spaceport availability.
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Or just make prices drop after getting a cargo (and then rising slowly again), get rid of another arbitrary constant and let the system find the equilibrium point by itself.
I donât remember how the calculation works, but a flat rate based on ship size for loading and unloading time would be a good idea if it doesnât already work that way.
Itâs not about an arbitrary constant or fluctuating prices. Itâs about civs not getting paid for loading/unloading time, even in cases (like Earth-Luna) when that is 99% of the total time taken.
I do understand, yet they donât have to, actually. Loading/unloading time are pure losses, so adding a rule that traders have to get paid for it is just another arbitrary rule adding another bordering issues to the game with no RP effect.
There was a problem with the previous version of this mechanics, that lunar colonies trade, on the contrary, gave a lot of money. Steve countered it with setting profit dependance from the route length. Thatâs another arbitrary rule causing bordering effects, one of which is actually the issue youâre pointing at.
Thatâs why I just suggest to make goods prices volatile.
Played Sid Mayers Colonization for long, had a good goods time. 
Is it possible to apply a highlight to an officer name in the various windows where officer names appear.
Similar to Story Character box but it would highlight the name which would appear in all places/ windows the officer name would appear.
Reason for it is purely to make it easier to find them.
I love the Officer side of the game.
When Iâm in a battle and say only one ship survives or a ship does a series amount of damage I want to highlight that Officer in the naval window to be able to find them later in the Character window or vice versa
It would mean then as the game progresses and gets busy they will stand out to me and I will remember "oh he was the hero of the battle of Jupiter "
I mostly use Roman naming themes so they can be tricky to find them at time. ha.
Purely a QOL change
Also a player notes sections that would feed into the history tab for the officer would also be cool. Where you could feed in snippets of your AAR to the officers history. Character limits could apply to keep it short and sweet.
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I second this. It would make it a lot easier for my AARs to keep track of characters Iâve mentioned without having to dig around to see what happened to them.
Gotta honor the victorious dead and all, but if I miss the dying part it sucks 
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Recently I have seen several people confused that FFD units donât do anything for ground-based artillery. Iâd like to suggest renaming them to OFD Orbital Fire Directors to make their role and capabilities clearer.
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Or just get rid of them, or repurpose, because:
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You obviously donât need any specific, large-scale equipment to be a forvard fire observer. Detached special operations men do it in a walk with their pocket radios and binoculars or any other means of observation (their own bare eyes including). Usual infantry troopers do it if thereâs no dedicated specialist around, not a big deal. Orbital bombardment is a huge big pillar of fire and smoke, you cannot miss it, and if you cannot communicate directly to the ships - well, thatâs ok, you just rapport to your own command and theyâll communicate with orbit, 8 hours cycles are more then long enough.
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Any technical, training or organizational means suitable for the role would be for sure effective in adjusting artillery fires and recconing.
As an active military officer, Iâd like to see this bit of mechanics working, yet as a general fire effectiveness multiplier, and, probably, in some cases, enabler.
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Huge big pillar of fire and smoke pointed at the frontline where you have your own troops too. Maybe there is some large scale equipment used for trans-laser tagging for the ships fire control systems. These are orbital weapons on the scale of nukes remember, not your everyday artillery shell. You want to be sure they are aiming at the right moving ants down there.
These are weapons able to hit objects dozens to several hundred meters long moving at least hundreds and likely thousands of kms per second. They definilely need no laser painting from the surface, they need just coordinates.
Dâyou know how millions of artillery shells and drones hit over-the-horizon moving targets currently? With simple software installed at smartphones and low-cost civilian tablets, communicating through any internet connection avialable. Not a problem at all, nothing even to improve significantly.
The problem is to spot.
Wasn`t there there a thing about Trans-Newtonian stuff interacting with gravity wells? Hence larger ships not being able to land. If the weapons are firing through that fluid dimension and it is chaotic due to the planets gravity then may not be that easy. The GPS coordinates could be worthless if the other dimension coordinates where the weapons target and fire through is not stable.