I simply love the Sins interface, so many innovative functions that truly help you organise and move your forces (like the bars near every planet that allow you to cleverly select all combat ships/strike craft/non-combat ships with one click; or the fact you can simply box-select 50 planets and build fighters on all of them).
Still, some improvements could be welcome:
- Finding and/or selecting all buildings/ships of a certain type. It is available for scouts and colony ships, would be cool to find all Superweapons or Phase Stabilisers or whatever as well.
- "Select half" function - I have 80 bombers in a fight against light frigate ships combined with support frigates. If I made a focus target queue for them, they would bomb one frigate for 5000 damage, see it disappear and then focus on another (If I don't, they usually attack something I would not want them to). However, if I could quickly make four groups of 20 and give a different queue for each of them, they would bomb four targets at once for enough damage to kill them anyway. The problem - how to select 20 bombers among dozens of other ships during a heavy fight. It's impossible, they move around fast and I can not box them cause the game would select frigates instead. If I could select all and then deselect half of them, I could CTRL+Number them and quickly share them into groups of 20, using SHIFT+bumber to add/deselect groups.
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The second feature sprung to my mind because a] the numbers of ships in this game are really big and b] because damage is poorly represented. I mean, ships do not take damage when hit, nor that damage is dealt to them that very moment. Damage is calculated in some awkward way every two or so seconds, so it doesn't matter if you tell 10 or 100 heavy cruisers to focus on a light frigate - it will live for two more seconds anyway.
I have had light ships staying alive for another second or two when they had 20 hit points and hit by 30 phase missiles per second.
I have seen ships blow up in groups of five after a Vulkoras Desolator uses his Phase Missile Swarm, but before the missiles are even halfway to them.
I have witnessed a frigate blow up when focus-fired by 80 assailants, with 160 missiles on the way but NONE having hit yet.
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