The UI is congruent because right clicking is only for removing items being queued. It works for fighters/bombers because they are in a constant state of being 'queued' in that they auto-replace themselves whereas buildings don't. Note that you can right click to destroy them before they are actually built. To destroy them without zooming in, you can select them on the empire tree and click the scuttle button. This also keeps them consistant with how all other 'built' items are destroyed (frigates, capitalships etc).

Edit: We purposely kept the scuttle button away from all the others and difficult to hit so you wouldn't mistakenly destroy something.

hahahaha, kosc would do that all the time

Known bug Jperzio. Devs are... working on it

yea might as well remind them lol   

This technique doesn't allow you to pick specific things for specific actions (e.g, selecting a structure to scuttle).

Hold down ALT, it gives you the names (as well as lots of other info).

It sounds like you aren't aware of all its functionality or you would prefer to use the Selection Based Empire Tree, which has much different behavior and is likely more suited to your play style. Check it out by activating it in UI options.

Heh, that's a pretty circular argument. I'm saying add a scuttle button elsewhere, and you're saying it's already there. I said elsewhere damnit!

Perhaps there are empire-tree functions that I am not aware of, but scuttling is the only thing I could see using it for. You can access all your build queues and planet management by simply clicking on a planet in the main window; you can access all of your fleets...

From what I can tell, the only reason you'd want to use the empire-tree is for Scuttling, and for selecting an individual ship that isn't currently in a fleet. Am I missing anything? Seems like an awful lot of UI space for such a narrow feature set.



My whole argument was I don't NEED to know the names - I know what the planets are! The volcanic planet, the green star, the blue ice planet, the planet next to the L shape... They don't need names in my head.



I just checked out the selection-based one, and my god I'm so happy. It's so much better because it de-clutters my screen. However, I am still curious as to what purpose it serves, other than scuttling and individual ship selection?

Assuming there is a use for it, the lists get neigh-unmanagable when you have a lot of ships in the region, is there a way you can break the empire tree down into ship- and structure- sub-tabs?

Yep. It's the way I play the game.

The whole empire tree is useless to my style of play.

Because of that, I would like an empire tree that only shows planets with battles going on (and selected fleets of course).

It's much more important to know where something happens (ie. you need a look at the whole picture, ie. fully zoomed out) then to be able to scuttle a certain structure, etc.

Besides that, remembering planet names is simple no option on large games, and now, I don't want to press ALT the whole time.

Structures that aren't built yet are like construction zones where all the building materials are stacked. They should be easy to wipe out in this condition and it should cost you.

What might make a bit more sense is that you only lose a % of your investement though.

same...

well... apparently I overestimate the average mental capacity...
  
if you dont use it, shut it down.