one click advantages (e.g. volantile land clearance)

[OleAlex]

Hey,

I really really find advantages you get when you do one or two clicks, then do plenty of other clicks because of the first click and then unclick the first click immediately afterwards, super stressful. :-D

My example here would be the volatile land clearance edict. You pause the game, clickediclick the edict and then remove blockers to get the discount and obviously you unlick the the edict again immediately.

Every time I do that I feel dirty, but I can not unsee it.

Wouldn´t it be possible to give clearing blockers a cost per month? Then the edict would make more sense.

Pretty sure there are more examples which I can't think of right now.
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Besides that the game got better in that regard, I remember employing all administrators before taking a tech to get the discount. That drove me crazy.

The change feels like a low hanging fruit to me.

 

[HFY]

You never lose access to the market. If you've ever seen a mote you can buy a mote. That said, yeah, this is the best option:

Literally just happened with gas in a game:

- Had gas and motes jobs
- Lost gas worker to Odd Factory event
- Gas edict in effect, got warning for impending shortage situation
- Checked market
- NO GAS FOR YOU

So I moved a worker over from another colony and next month I expect to have gas income again, and with income I'll be able to buy from the market again.

Unfortunately, the game isn't as forgiving as your imagination.

Make it a new category of edict and shift all the special resource ones in there. Gas as fuel? Cost 0, 0 upkeep, all undocked ships gain gas upkeep. Living Metal for Megastructures? Cost 0, 0 upkeep, if your megastructure is upgrading between stages then it gains living metal upkeep. Nanite Actuators? Cost 0, 0 upkeep, all researchers gain nanites as an upkeep cost.

Might need to give it a very minor token upkeep of like 0.1 per month to make all the situations and auto turn off kick in but that's not a real issue.

Honestly don't see any need to move it from being an un-edict-y Edict into being an un-policy-y Policy, but if the functionality is preserved then I don't really care where it sits.

- Checkbox because clicking twice and then an extra confirm click is annoying for a decision that I expect to reverse several times.
- List them all together and not as separate unfurl elements, I don't need to click the dropdown opener and then click a radio button.

If it's as easy to use as Edicts, then I would have no objection to wherever it sits.

But I don't want to add clicks just for someone's ideological satisfaction, especially since the "new" ideology seems like an equally bad fit as compared to the current one.

Function is the most important thing here. It looks like your ideological move would reduce function (turning them into multi-click Policies instead of one-click Edicts). Make it one-click Policies and I'm on board.

 

[Critical Ethics]

Literally just happened with gas in a game:

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- Had gas and motes jobs
- Lost gas worker to Odd Factory event
- Gas edict in effect, got warning for impending shortage situation
- Checked market
- NO GAS FOR YOU

So I moved a worker over from another colony and next month I expect to have gas income again, and with income I'll be able to buy from the market again.

Unfortunately, the game isn't as forgiving as your imagination.

...huh, weird. It's not supposed to do that. File a bug report?

Honestly don't see any need to move it from being an un-edict-y Edict into being an un-policy-y Policy

Neither do I. I think you must have misread a word because I was agreeing with you!

 

[HFY]

...huh, weird. It's not supposed to do that. File a bug report?

Why do you think it's not supposed to do that?

Neither do I. I think you must have misread a word because I was agreeing with you!

Cool.