Quality of life changes for colony ships

[Mr Jeffs]

I colonised two planets with the incorrect species because I could not see the species preference of the colony shp pop. Its threatening to destabalise two of my major sectors as the pops on the planet have garbage happiness now and wont migrate even when I activate edicts.

1. Can we have a little icon maybe in the portrait slot with the pop showing the preference (arid, tundra etc.)
2. Could we get an alert if we are about to colonise a really low habitability planet or some other system to show the habitability for the colony ship we have selected (not empire wide)
3. If I build a colony ship in a sector can they still show up in the outliner so I do not lose track of them.

This is the only thing I find tedious in an otherwise great and engaging game. Hope these get noticed.

 

[Gaan Cathal]

Can we have a little icon maybe in the portrait slot with the pop showing the preference (arid, tundra etc.)

Dear god this. Keeping track of what colony ships to send where when you've been building them from Gaia world populations in multicultural empires is a massive ballache.

 

[Arizal]

This is probably the first thing I would like to be implemented in the game at the moment. It is more urgent than functionning dipomacy. (Which is not to say diplomacy is not important)

 

[eddyill]

What i've been doing is colonising from the planet screen then you get a list of colony ships with all the info you need.

 

[Arizal]

What i've been doing is colonising from the planet screen then you get a list of colony ships with all the info you need.

I'm sorry, what are you talking about? Could we have a screenshot of how you are doing that?

 

[Lamahorse]

Yes, knowing what Pop is in the Colony Ship is necessary.

 

[Alastor17]

the best way is to click the planet and then colonize and it will list the races in a colony ship that you have built already. Then say these guys will colonize here. boom

 

[Mr Jeffs]

the best way is to click the planet and then colonize and it will list the races in a colony ship that you have built already. Then say these guys will colonize here. boom

I have checked this out and yes you are right! The pops do show in that screen. Thanks for the help.

Still easy to lose track of colony ships if you build them in a sector. They do not show in the outliner when completed if you are in a large colonisation push you can easily miss one in the constant stream of construction complete pop ups.

Might just have my sectors float various colony ships ready for selection.

 

[CatsPajamas]

Displaying the POP in a colony ship was one of the first things I noted that would be a good quality of life improvement, thanks to Mr. Jeffs for posting the thread!

Alastor17 pointed out a good workaround solution by using the colonization option until a change is made here. In addition, another workaround solution is to rename the Colony Ships when they're built to reflect what POP they are for.

Mr Jeffs brought up a good related issue about keeping track of colony ships sectors have built. It would be nice to have a toggle available for the Outliner to display those ships as well.

 

[Alastor17]

right i agree all im saying is there is some way to make your life easier! xD