Add disabled Gateway icon (red Getway icon) for finished Gateway Construction Sites

[KopiG]

So when you finish a gateway and something comes up and you cannot immediately upgrade your Gateway Construction Site to a finished Gateway, it is very hard to locate the Gateway Constuction Site again. I propose they have the same icon as a found disabled Gateway. This way you can see at a glance where you have unfinished Gateways in your emnpire.

 

[OnyxAbussos]

Yes please.

 

[Guilliman88]

I agree as well, I frequently lose unfinished gateways as I forget I build them :<

 

[Maethendias]

no, while i agree that gateway construction sites require (desperatly) an icon for the map i would advice AGAINST reusing the "red" disabled gateway icon

first, it ACTUALLY ISNT A GATEWAY YET.... just the foundation for building one

second....(maybe in hope of future events with megastructures) reusing the icon would be a bad idea .... it add to confusion and would make things worse than before...

instead i suggest creating 2 new icons (or reusing the megastructure icon) to reflect ALL megastructure foundations, and ALL finished megastructures..

it would add an icon to the system if you have a finished foundation, EVEN IF THERE IS ALREADY A FINISHED MEGASTRUCTURE (a parallel problem as op's)



also on a sidenote.... clicking on said icons would actually select SAID MEGASTRUCTURES or cicle through them if there are multiple (something thats missing rn)

 

[KopiG]

I think you are a bit wrong. In essence both the Gateway construction site and the disabled found gateway are the same. Both requiring a final upgrade to become fully functional.
What confusion would this cause? You would know there is a half finished gateway there requiring attention i. e. an upgrade. They are exactly the same in this regard.

Additionally my idea would be insanely easy to implement meaning a lot of dev time saved. So sorry but I respectfully disagree with you.

 

[KopiG]

bump for dev awareness

 

[JuanitoRUS]

I agree with this, it is the necessary thing because https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...to-find-my-gateway-construction-site.1112244/

 

[scaper12123]

Fully support

 

[Warchild421]

Could go one further, mark all unfinished mega-structures with its standard icon that's yellow on the map, finished ones would be the standard white color.

 

[Defiler99]

Yes please; this is especially tricky if you load up a savegame you haven't touched recently.

 

[KopiG]

bump

 

[Spaceception]

Could go one further, mark all unfinished mega-structures with its standard icon that's yellow on the map, finished ones would be the standard white color.

That's what I was going to say. You could also make the icon blue on megastructures that are in the middle of upgrading, like with planets that are in the middle of terraforming. Along with a time to completion that you can see by hovering over in the map view.

 

[InvisibleBison]

I strongly support this idea.

 

[KopiG]

Sadly its still very hard to find unfinished Megastructures. So please extend this idea to ALL Megastructures as Warchild421 said.

 

[KopiG]

Bump for awareness. I still very much want this feature.

 

[Gundabadguy]

Maybe there should be a ‘midway’ stage symbol as well for multi-stage megastructures.

 

[Rodmar18]

I agree that something could be added to help the player tracking those kinds of constructs.
Shouldn't this informational feature be restricted to systems you have fully knowledge of, though, the same as fleets under construction ?

Usual non activated Gateways need to be discovered by the way, and only activated Gateways are automatically detected by the network when they get online (I don't know if this is the case already, but you should control an active Gateway to be able to instantly detect other activated Gateways, logically).

 

[HFY]

You could also make the icon blue on megastructures that are in the middle of upgrading, like with planets that are in the middle of terraforming.

Terraforming planets also get a space in the outline bar.

Maybe put unfinished megastructures in their own seciton of the outliner, under the Terraforming section.

Not as good as map icons, but potentially easier to code, and at least the info would exist somewhere.

 

[UltimateTobi]

I want to weigh in my voice as well. Would be very helpful.

 

[Lykus Cerebros]

Yes I can't remember how many times I was busy and forgot to immediately build the station and then forgot where it was.