Please add a newline in comms menu, the window is taking my whole screen and I still can't see some messages.



Also, might fixing this "allocated but unused" part of the window should help.

Would be nice if you could automatically (by pressing a GUI button) scrap a whole ship for modules or materials.

Would require it to be moored at station / airport. Or maybe the same conditions than mothball.

Scrapped materials / modules quantity would depend of the current durability of the ship. Maybe have a quantity penalty based on quality, kinda like quality fails when fetching.

Could be scraped by Airport Repair Shops, and should work with ships of other empires (captured).

Scrap should require a fraction of the nominal design build time.

Why ?
Well it's really annoying to waste tons of ressources into a big ship and having to replace it for a random reason (newly found Q255 hull ressource / interior update of a mothership etc)
It's even worst when you think about all the ressources your nearly-pristine ship represent.

I've found it's kinda frustrating placing mines/wells with the new node based system. It's entirely unclear where nodes are since they are near impossible to see, especially at night. It makes it very frustrating to try and place your building on these nodes to maximize output, and since you can't overlap buildings (which is good) you want to get as much as you can under one building.



How many gems are for the first gem icon? 8? 7? is the 8 pulling one from the second gem icon? Getting 11 gems on this mine is nice, but how much is that leaving out on the left or right? Would it be better to do 2 mines? Would you get more? You gotta try all combinations to figure it out. Time consuming, frustrating.

I propose that while you have a building in hand, the nodes should show up as little points color coded. So in this case the red would be gems, and the white is the stone.


This field would not spread far past the building outline, so as to not clutter the screen, but it would show you enough information to inform your decision on where to actually place the building.

On a similar note, a planet tells me it has 1% oil and 1% ore. Ore is everywhere, very abundant. But oil? Well I searched for an hour and couldn't find any in my resource zone. 1% for both? You sure? To ease with this frustration, I suggest allowing ships to scan a planet for resources, and this would then allow a new use for the surface map. After a planet is scanned for resources, the surface map will show a side bar/box with a selection for planetary resources. When selected, it will show a rough estimation for where these resources are. The estimation is a little vague, so it won't be at the exact coordinates, but close. You still need to search, but now you don't need to search the entire planet.

Resource view with Oil selected, shows that there is oil in zone 3, it just happens to be down near the pole!

Hey, so, some parts of a building have specific sizes m^3 per unit of... thing. Like an office needs 34 m^3 or something. As far as I can tell there's no reason to have sliders that lets us pick some fraction of a whole unit, so either having slider increments of the unit's requirements or an field to enter the specific number of units desired would be useful. For example, If I want 8 generators, I could enter '8' and the designer would put the required amount of space in. Or, the slider itself would just move in whatever increment is required.

I scanned a system and discovered the planet names in the survey report and in the orders menu don't match up.

For some reason when giving an order, all the planets are numbered one higher (IV - V, V - VI, so on), with no Planet I listed in the orders screen (Instead II, and it's moons IIa, IIb, IIc).

We in Rome were trying to set a nice new flag, the following image:



When setting this flag, however, we found that our flag ceased to exist. The default flag is visible on all of our buildings / ships and there is no flag shown in the UI. We are unable to change our flag back because the flag image served as the button to set the flag, and that flag image is now gone.

Created a new avatar to use as an alt while my main was stuck in limbo, spawned on an airless moon, died instantly. Avatar ID RKAKB.

It would be nice to have an option to flatten the star map for easier wormhole navigation; the Y-value of systems isn't very important when navigating through wormholes except for determining what sector a system is in, but with the ability to flatten and unflatten at will, that issue could be negated. Flattened maps are much easier to read than 3D maps, even if some information is lost in the flattening process.

I think there is something wrong with repair time calculation.

I respawned my basic Scout by Haxus (Blueprint Number 2002) after an accident. I then landed it and brought repairs.

The text and icon of some categories (e.g. in the "Buy category" command) do not match.
It says tools, but the icon shows weapons (it will buy weapons).
It says technology, but the icon is a hammer (it will actually buy tools)
It says spare parts, but the icon is a module (and yes, it sill buy modules)

Others are also wrong. I didn't try them, but there is a pattern there so I can guess what they'll actually buy/sell :P