Quality of life requests for 2.2.1
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Economic growth slider in addition to technology/unity cost slider (that will increase/decrease speed of pop growth and building speed). I prefer more fast paced playing, and just technology/unity cost slider is not enough for that in 2.2.
What I want are graphs. I want to see exactly how my economy is growing per commodity and demand.
I'd love to have for Stellaris the same degree of details we enjoy in EU4.
Some macro-management tools would be nice, even if it's just giving back the ability to set tax rates on sectors.
Can you make it so that fanatic purifiers start with the slavery policy set to prohibited? They cannot use slaves, but the fact that slavery is allowed can give them rulers and governors with bonuses to slavery.
Can you make planets that are in explored systems (but not yet surveyed) show up in the expansion planner?
Can you make planets that are in explored systems (but not yet surveyed) show up in the expansion planner?
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The Diplomacy map mode already does this, claimed systems are highlighted in blue. By default you see your diplo relations and your claims... click on another empire to see their relations & claims.
It appears that the tech is already weighted 4 times the base value by being machinist and materialist. So your request is not valid since it is already in the game.
Have you checked wether you meet the requirements for droid tech? I had the same problem until I figured out that you need Colonial Centralisation (a society tech) before it can appear: https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Engineering_research#Droids_tech
I would like to add to this that it would be nice to start the randomization at 0 and not at 1, so we can get a range from 0-2 and not the options 1-2.
I would like to see this also with every other slider, that it can start with 0.
I think we just became best friends. Why sectors get a hotkey when technology doesnt is beyond me
Stop auto-hiding research screen as soon as I click scientist portrait and leaders screen pops up. This is annoying. I will close it myself if I need to, I promise.
Here are a few QoL suggestions off the top of my head, please feel free to correct me if I'm blind for some blatantly obvious game mechanic:
1. In the Expansion planner, add terraforming candidates you've discovered to the "is Colonizable" filter, or find some other solution to see only the candidates in your current territory. Because it's a nightmare trying to find where the terraforming candidates in your own territory actually are, you have to browse every single one you've found throughout the galaxy.
2. Give us the tools we had to evaluate research agreement benefits before 2.2. Specifically be able to see how many techs each empire will get a boost for beforehand, and some tool to review these numbers over time (because research agreements are no longer temporary, I'd like to know when they have become obsolete and I'm better off not spending influence on them anymore).
3. Notifications when a planetary decision expires. Looking at you, growth boost! It becomes rather intense trying to keep track of these when you should renew those once you get more than a few planets.
4. I'm not sure if I'm just not seeing it, but does it display anywhere on the planetary screen how the current pop happiness is affecting pop production, specifically, with exact numbers? It would be useful if we could have a tooltip providing that information.
1. In the Expansion planner, add terraforming candidates you've discovered to the "is Colonizable" filter, or find some other solution to see only the candidates in your current territory. Because it's a nightmare trying to find where the terraforming candidates in your own territory actually are, you have to browse every single one you've found throughout the galaxy.
2. Give us the tools we had to evaluate research agreement benefits before 2.2. Specifically be able to see how many techs each empire will get a boost for beforehand, and some tool to review these numbers over time (because research agreements are no longer temporary, I'd like to know when they have become obsolete and I'm better off not spending influence on them anymore).
3. Notifications when a planetary decision expires. Looking at you, growth boost! It becomes rather intense trying to keep track of these when you should renew those once you get more than a few planets.
4. I'm not sure if I'm just not seeing it, but does it display anywhere on the planetary screen how the current pop happiness is affecting pop production, specifically, with exact numbers? It would be useful if we could have a tooltip providing that information.
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Most of the map mods that they removed in earlier updates sure would be useful. Though I literally will not play the game without using a mod that brings them back, but it's tiresome.
When you go to build a building on a planet I'd much prefer some sort of grid based menu to choose from rather than a long scroll list.
The tickbox called "Is Colonizable" on top of the list does exactly that.
Would love to see this too. Also, since we can't "sell" research agreements to less developed countries anymore, some sort of compensation/bonus (at least opinion) for agreeing to a disparate research agreement would be appropriate.
Yes please!
* weighted average pop happiness affects approval (happiness icon on "Population tab") - these effects can be seen on approval icon tooltip
* approval affects stability (scales icon on the first tab), which then affects production - both effects are seen on stability tooltip
* unhappy pop generates some crime which is visible in pop details; total crime and its effects are seen on the 1st tab
the system is a bit nebulous (thanks today's news for the word of the day) but as soon as you get it you get used to it
@Sigma 582
1. Terraforming candidates do not display when you tick "is colonizable", thus there is no way to discover terraforming candidates in your own territory rather than looking through the entire list of barren worlds you have surveyed. This can be very bothersome when you have explored a larger portion of the galaxy.
Curiously, the same tab works well for all other planets... which you can see as a planet icon on the galaxy map anyway. The only type of planet you can't see thus making Expansion planner vital for filtering is... terraforming candidates
Thank you for this, I just realized my wording was very vague and I've edited the original suggestion. Hopefully it's clearer what I mean now.
4. When I hover over the amenities section, I can only see "+7% pop happiness" and I have no clue what that means numerically. I do understand it then takes part in other calculations but I have no idea how, the game gives no feedback thus I can't decide how to prioritize happiness other than the generic "it must be useful, better have it higher than not". That doesn't help weigh it against other options, depriving me of a conscious choice. At least that's how I feel about it.
Let me expand a little, I have no clue what the exact correlation between pop happiness and pop approval is (and why they are two different things to begin with), I would like the game to properly explain how each is affecting each, with specific numbers via tooltips. So that I know what my current pop happiness bonus is actually giving me, and so that I can predict how valuable a 5% pop happiness boost via research, building, tradition or whatever will be when I'm picking it against something else.
1. Terraforming candidates do not display when you tick "is colonizable", thus there is no way to discover terraforming candidates in your own territory rather than looking through the entire list of barren worlds you have surveyed. This can be very bothersome when you have explored a larger portion of the galaxy.
Curiously, the same tab works well for all other planets... which you can see as a planet icon on the galaxy map anyway. The only type of planet you can't see thus making Expansion planner vital for filtering is... terraforming candidates
Thank you for this, I just realized my wording was very vague and I've edited the original suggestion. Hopefully it's clearer what I mean now.
4. When I hover over the amenities section, I can only see "+7% pop happiness" and I have no clue what that means numerically. I do understand it then takes part in other calculations but I have no idea how, the game gives no feedback thus I can't decide how to prioritize happiness other than the generic "it must be useful, better have it higher than not". That doesn't help weigh it against other options, depriving me of a conscious choice. At least that's how I feel about it.
Let me expand a little, I have no clue what the exact correlation between pop happiness and pop approval is (and why they are two different things to begin with), I would like the game to properly explain how each is affecting each, with specific numbers via tooltips. So that I know what my current pop happiness bonus is actually giving me, and so that I can predict how valuable a 5% pop happiness boost via research, building, tradition or whatever will be when I'm picking it against something else.
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My two pet peeves are that there is no quick way to 1) identify which planets have no jobs/housing/amenities or incipant crime/stability problems (short of clicking through all your planets), and 2) figure out what your resource surplus/deficit would be if all your districts were filled up (i.e. am I really short on food, or am I short on farmers? That makes a difference in terms of the development choices I'm going to make). These are fairly solvable:
1) Notifications at the top for "planets have no jobs/housing/amenities"
2) Early notifications about stability & crime problems (i.e. when they are still within tolerances, but are getting worse, instead of "this is a problem already!")
3) Columns in the planets/sectors tab for available jobs/housing/amenities (so you can sort by them to find all the planets that are about to run out)
4) An extra number on the top bar showing what maximum resource output would be if all your districts/jobs are filled. E.g. right now, it reads: "Minerals: 500 +12", but It would be really good if it read "Minerals +12 (+20 max)" so you know that you still have the built capacity to produce 8 more minerals.
1) Notifications at the top for "planets have no jobs/housing/amenities"
2) Early notifications about stability & crime problems (i.e. when they are still within tolerances, but are getting worse, instead of "this is a problem already!")
3) Columns in the planets/sectors tab for available jobs/housing/amenities (so you can sort by them to find all the planets that are about to run out)
4) An extra number on the top bar showing what maximum resource output would be if all your districts/jobs are filled. E.g. right now, it reads: "Minerals: 500 +12", but It would be really good if it read "Minerals +12 (+20 max)" so you know that you still have the built capacity to produce 8 more minerals.
Better outliner please. Ideally have tabs on the right of the screen so I could activate the planet outliner when I wanted to look at planets, fleet outliner to look at fleets, starbase outliner for starbases, etc. Otherwise it's really cumbersome trying to scroll up or down 50 planets with 30 starbases, 20 science/construction ships, and 4 fleets in the way.
Actual prioritization for jobs. Currently there is no priority, it's just locking and unlocking jobs.
Some kind of configurable information reported by planets on the outliner would be amazing. I'd love to see # of pops / # of jobs for instance.
Actual prioritization for jobs. Currently there is no priority, it's just locking and unlocking jobs.
Some kind of configurable information reported by planets on the outliner would be amazing. I'd love to see # of pops / # of jobs for instance.