Why isn't this a thing in the game yet? Sure you have the 10 days/30 days "save" so that you won't lose time between focuses and researches compared to other players/countries, but you still have to click back & forth everytime a focus tree or research is completed. Sometimes this is annoying.
I know you don't always have a predefined strategy, sometimes your strategy changes based on the actions of other players/countries, but when it doesn't, and especially at the beginning of the game, it's very convenient to have a queue for focuses and research. So that you won't have to always go back & forth. It's also worth pointing out that this is completely optional, whoever wants to play without queues can simply not use them.
It doesn't have to be a big one, maybe a queue of 2 extra focuses and of 6 extra researches. The moment you complete a focus/research, the next one in line is automatically placed. If you want to remove a focus/research from the queue you simply right-click it, or you can drag it higher or lower on the priority list.
Just make sure that every focus/research needs to have its prerequisites either researched, in research or above them in queue.
Another huge advantage of this, beside not having to go back to the focus and research tabs as often, is that you can go back to the focus and research tabs whenever you want and change your strategy. You no longer have to wait until a focus is complete to select another one, you can change the next focus in queue right in the middle of the focus.
And while the 10 days/30 days "save" is good, I think everyone has missed the timeline once in a while. With a queue, you no longer have to worry about that. It's hard to miss the timeline for the focus when you have a queue of 210 days and a period between 70 - 210 days to pick the next focus in queue, adding 70 more days to the queue.
With research I think this can be done fairly easy, as the game allows even ahead of time research. But with the focuses this is going to be a bit more complex, beside checking for prerequisites, the game also has to check whether the focus is available, and warn the player to remove it from the queue if the focus suddenly becomes unavailable for some reason, and if the focus is unavailable when its time to do it, to have it removed instead of making it. But overall I think it's worthwhile as it leads to a lot more comfort for the player.
It's probably too much for this patch, but hopefully something like this can be added in the patch that comes with the new DLC.
I know you don't always have a predefined strategy, sometimes your strategy changes based on the actions of other players/countries, but when it doesn't, and especially at the beginning of the game, it's very convenient to have a queue for focuses and research. So that you won't have to always go back & forth. It's also worth pointing out that this is completely optional, whoever wants to play without queues can simply not use them.
It doesn't have to be a big one, maybe a queue of 2 extra focuses and of 6 extra researches. The moment you complete a focus/research, the next one in line is automatically placed. If you want to remove a focus/research from the queue you simply right-click it, or you can drag it higher or lower on the priority list.
Just make sure that every focus/research needs to have its prerequisites either researched, in research or above them in queue.
Another huge advantage of this, beside not having to go back to the focus and research tabs as often, is that you can go back to the focus and research tabs whenever you want and change your strategy. You no longer have to wait until a focus is complete to select another one, you can change the next focus in queue right in the middle of the focus.
And while the 10 days/30 days "save" is good, I think everyone has missed the timeline once in a while. With a queue, you no longer have to worry about that. It's hard to miss the timeline for the focus when you have a queue of 210 days and a period between 70 - 210 days to pick the next focus in queue, adding 70 more days to the queue.
With research I think this can be done fairly easy, as the game allows even ahead of time research. But with the focuses this is going to be a bit more complex, beside checking for prerequisites, the game also has to check whether the focus is available, and warn the player to remove it from the queue if the focus suddenly becomes unavailable for some reason, and if the focus is unavailable when its time to do it, to have it removed instead of making it. But overall I think it's worthwhile as it leads to a lot more comfort for the player.
It's probably too much for this patch, but hopefully something like this can be added in the patch that comes with the new DLC.
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