Will there be something like GC2's Civilization Manager in GC3?

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I have just re-discovered a wish item for GC2's "Civilization Manager" that I wish for GC3.

There are many times when I want to track something specific about the development progress of a particular colony along with what colonies I am trying to track. What I think would be very useful is a column that displayed a note indicator (maybe an alphanumeric character) and the ability to tie the note character to a comment.

For instance, when I type the character "f" into the field for colony Zepher II, a mini-screen would pop up to allow me to enter a short comment, like "watching for completion of research of trade tech". Then if I mouse over the note field for that colony the comment could pop up similar to a tooltip, or clicking on it could bring up the comment in a mini-window. I could have several colonies that I am watching for the same reason and would use the matching note character for all of them. Using one alphanumeric would give a potential of 36 (in English) unique watch reasons (62 if both uppercase and lower case were allowed).

Since I don't know what is in GC3, there may be other places where being able to do something like this would be helpful, but I think the biggest gain would be in the Civilization Manager list.

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Interesting idea. I definitely would like the ability to add notes to planets in general, not only my own.

For example, I'd like to add a note with "build the Manufacturing Capital here" or "turn this into an econ world" to one of my planets, or "there is a Precursor Mine here" or "this is the Drengin's main research planet" to one of my enemy's.

This would make it much easier to remember where the special buildings are or what I had in mind with some planets. Especially when combined with your idea to link identical comments to a specific character.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

And, I just realized, that if such a field is added to the Civilization Management list, there also needs to be a corresponding field in the Colony Management panel. I just realized a note field would have to be manageable from both places.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Not a bad idea this is probably where I would list my starship, production, and research planets. As far as the capitols I see where this would help a little.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

This is probably better than renaming the planets like I usually do. I end up with a lot of "Kryo III S25" planets, using S for ship bonus, R for research, P for production, and occasionally M for morale, followed by the value of the bonus. Research planets often get a space before the name so they are at the top of the civ manager list and trade list - I like to sell them to whoever I want a specific tech from.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Hey Willy are you kyro I noticed that a lot of people are missing like Maiden this time around.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 5

Hey Willy are you kyro I noticed that a lot of people are missing like Maiden this time around.

lol no, Kryo is a Stardock employee. I used that because it's a system that appears in nearly every game I play.

If you hadn't noticed, many of the systems and minor races are named after Stardock people. You frequently see systems named Mormegil, Kryo, Wardell, etc. And the Carinoids are clearly named after Carielf; I'd bet the Jessuins are named after someone named Jesse. There's a few others that I can't think of right now.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting WIllythemailboy, reply 6




lol no, Kryo is a Stardock employee. I used that because it's a system that appears in nearly every game I play.

If you hadn't noticed, many of the systems and minor races are named after Stardock people.

Never caught that probably because I'm just recently figuring out who's who because of a needed effort to contribute to the game.