Civilian Fleet Management

[garcx]

Several other people have posted in here regarding the tediousness of managing civilian fleets as your faction expands. This is one of my biggest gripes about this game so far.

I think a solution to this would be to remove them from the galactic map and manage them through a civilian fleet screen. This screen would enable you to direct how your civilian fleets will gather recources. Specificaly, this could be done with a simple slider for each recourse and a 'risk' slider for each resource that determines how many resources are returned (1x, 2x, 3x, etc) versus chance of ambush.

This would totally eliminate the tedious clicking of the task assigments as they are now, and still enable them to generate player chosen resources.

[Geek]

I would rather not have this feature fully automated.
You already have structures, planets and trade deals for this.

[garcx]

Maybe have a manual or automatic option then.

I don't find scrolling around the map for tasks fun at all. Especially when its every couple of minutes.

Maybe just adding a civilian fleet summary list, where I can assign them tasks from one pop-up or screen. I don't mind choosing the tasks, its just all the scrolling and clicking almost doesn't make using the fleets worth it at all.

Honeslty, I'm almost to the point of not using them. They just don't generate enough resources for me to almost constantly be clicking around the galactic map. I can capture a ship and scrap it for more metal than the civilian fleets generate in a dozen missions.

[Geek]

A better interface is definitely needed.

[garcx]

Originally posted by Geek - Gemini Warlord:

A better interface is definitely needed.

I totally agree. I'm hoping this can be incorperated into a 'Galactic Overview' screen where you can manage other resources on the map. Like upgrading mines and collectors. I think something similar to Civilization is definitaly needed to help manage the faction as it grows.

[Riftwind]

I agree with the OP and many others that have commented on Civilian Fleets. Either telling them to automatically accept missions for certain resources as they pop up, or having a list for missions would be a great improvement. I hate clicking on each individual mission to see how many of my fleet it will take, or what the mission is in the first place. I can look for missions near a junk field, click on one and it is a survey mission. It gets tedious trying to go over the whole map just trying to find the missions I would like.

It would also be great to add "capture" missions to expand your fleet, or perhaps adding that as a passive option any time your combat fleets encounter an enemy.