Thanks coma. I agree with you. 

I wouldn't say I was thinking that any of them are necessary.  But anything that makes game play smoother, or easier for say a noob I think is a good thing.

Some of them are just common sense changes, like links to systems, and stuff.  Others, are just convenience suggestions.  But, all in all, they are there to improve the gameplay.

Hey guys,

I saw that there was on old stickied post from like 4 years ago that talked about UI improvements to SO... so I thought it made sense to make a new one.

I do have some ideas to improve the SO MAIN interface (that's what I play).

1) On the System Structures screen, make it so you can navigate directly to your structure.  In other words, instead of just just allowing me to navigate to the system, have each structure also have a navigate link.  Saves clicking.

2) Not sure why anywhere that there is anything to load or unload, there isn't an UNLOAD ALL sort of thing... but would really like to unload my mine with one click.

3) FP has a period in place of commas.  Not sure why, but I would like to see that changed. Anywhere that there is a # and it's formatted that way,  just put in periods and commas where they belong. For those of us who copy and paste those numbers in a spreadsheet, for example , it would be handy.

4) Why isn't anything effected by your upgrades NOT shown in the game as effected by your upgrades?  In other words, wherever I buy a ship, I want to see what it ACTUALLY costs before I buy it.  Gold discount, Line assembly discount, etc INCLUDED.  Showing the before and after discount would be cool, but I'd really like to see MY price for planning purposes.

5) Similar to #4 above, ANYTHING in the game, Marines, Ships, system structures, whatever that you buy and have a discount on, should show the discounted price.

6) Fleet groups.  I would like to create groups of fleets that I use for different purposes.  Not that the game needs to know what the purpose is, but that if I want a fleet group for incursions, and another for missions, and another for PVP... it would be nice to have the game allow me to choose either a group, or the fleet to use, instead of reorganizing my fleet choice every time.

7) Ranking screen needs a legend for the columns.  NOTHING is self explanatory.  And you shouldn't need to read the guide and ask around to know what B, N, or C means.

8) More consistant on screen controls.  It takes way too much going back to main screen to move around the game.

9) Would like in-game P2P IM or even alliance (group) IM.

10) In the game mailbox, you only see messages received by you.  There should be a sent items area too, so I can a) make sure I sent it, and b) know what I sent.

11) Anywhere in the game where a players ID or username is shown, I should be able to initiate a message to them from there, instead of remembering their id or username.

12) Why cant we see the alliance members list?  From the alliances screen, id like to be able to see either the member list of a given alliance, or perhaps at least the leader of said alliance. 

13) Should be able to send a message to the leader of any alliance from the alliance screen.

14) Allow alliances to have other leaders who can answer for the alliance. Sort of an alliance council.

15) Make incursions more obvious in the interface.  New users have a difficult time a) seeing them, and b) knowing what they are.

16) Everytime i level up my commander, i keep thinking ... why doesn't my commander level have any bearing on anything really? SO I get XP and CP.... XP doesn't do anything but get me CP.  Either make the commander level VALUABLE somehow... or remove it.  It doesn't mean anything.

17) As long as there is a commander level, I would like to know what the levels are... allow me to see where I am in relation to future and past levels.

18) Dormant accounts are all over the place.  I think if you haven't played in like 6 months or 1 year or something, and you DON'T have a gold account, then your mothership becomes one of those derelict motherships... and when attacked, gets removed from the game.  Too much trash floating around a NEW round and a NEWLY generated universe.  Or have them removed to elsewhere... and only placed back into the game when they start playing again.

19) For rapid attacking... like incursions, place the RANKING button at the bottom of the screen with the attack results, or something like it... RETURN TO BATTLE button for example.  Good for Missions too.

20) There are some players I want to know when I log in that they are on.  Would like a facebook like user list, automatically updates without the screen needing to be refreshed.

21) Main screen should be a MOTHERSHIP Status screen.  SHould show all relevant info about all of your planets, mines, space stations, workers, credits, battles, terraforming activities, trading, etc.

I'm sure there are other cool ideas... those are just the ones I could think of.

Thanks,

Robbart