Please make progress on anomaly research PERMANENT, this is VERY IMPORTANT.

[Mik1984]

I just had to lose 500 days of progress in research of an anomaly, just because I needed to cancel the ships order queue. The reason is, a different anomaly far away entered the ships queue in priority on top. I had a different science ship nearby.

This was catastrophic, I had to cancel the entire research queue loosing 500 days of research, just because leaving the orders queued would be even worse ( the ship would have to make 1100 days of useless journey back and forth).

The reason is because you cannot cancel individual orders from the queue or edit the queue in any way, you have to cancel the entire thing.

 

[The Founder]

Another approach would be to transform long running Anomalies into something like the Archeology Site. Just instead of digging old stuff up, you are spending a lot of time investigating.
One advantage of that System is that no relevant progress can be lost to pauses.

 

[Mik1984]

Well anomalies already store progress, you can choose for the ship to start doing a new thing by adding a new order ON TOP of the queue and go back to the anomaly with no loss of progress AS LONG AS the anomaly remains in the order queue. The progress is cancelled only if the queue is reset. Why? The system already can store progress. It just shouldn't reset it on queue reset.

 

[HFY]

The reason is because you cannot cancel individual orders from the queue or edit the queue in any way, you have to cancel the entire thing.

Just today I lost ~300 days of anomaly research because an asteroid appeared in the system, and was going to hit my colony unless I sent a fleet to blow it up.

The asteroid was no threat to anyone (except the colony I guess), but it was hostile, so BOOM the science ship cancelled the order and evacuated the system.

UUUUUUUGH.

 

[safe-keeper]

Having played Stars! back in the day, I really wonder why you can't rearrange ships' orders. Would be super useful at times.
Edit: also, yes, it makes no sense that anomaly research is lost when you have to stop surveying.

 

[Mik1984]

Having played Stars! back in the day, I really wonder why you can't rearrange ships' orders. Would be super useful at times.
Edit: also, yes, it makes no sense that anomaly research is lost when you have to stop surveying.

That would be a new mechanic they would have to introduce. Although it would be useful.

For now, they should just REMOVE the mechanic of resetting anomaly research progress on reset of the order queue. Storing of progress already exists in the events log, just stop it from resetting when you reset the orders queue.