Here's 3 small improvements, nothing major, that would be very welcome, at least for the way I play...
1) Ship upgrade costs. The costs to upgrade ships don't make much sense to me. If you choose to upgrade ship X, and you choose to upgrade to ship X, i.e. nothing changes, the cost is usually in the neighborhood of the original ship cost. Shouldn't it be 0 in this case? (or maybe choosing the same exact ship shouldn't be available at all?) Making a small upgrade, adding a point or 2 of offense or defense for example, usually costs anywhere from 2 to 3 times the original cost of the ship. Seems steep.
The other half of the problem with the costs is that I have never seen the costs offered by the last 2 companies: United Builders Inc. and Mitrosoft to ever be anything even close to reasonable. I understand that the total cost offered by these companies should be higher in return for allowing you to spread the cost over many turns, but the costs are *so much* higher that I can't see why anyone would ever use them, especially when the initial cost isn't that much lower than the other companies.
2) I don't know how other people use the Civilization Manager screen, but I use it all the time to make decisions. The information I most often am concerned with is the remaining time to complete ship building. It would be great if I could sort on the time remaining to build - either ships or buildings. Right now, those two columns sort alphabetically on the name of the ship or building.
3) In the ship builder, especially since the Upgrade button now strips off all my modules, I often bounce in and out of a ship a couple of times before I'm ready to build. Each time you exit from building a ship, the top ship in the scroll list is selected. It would save me a click and a scroll and make me really happy if it would keep my latest selection selected. Even if you 'fix' the Upgrade button back like it was (please!), I would still like to look at the ship I just built when I finish it.
Like I said, these are 3 small, not earth shattering changes that would be a nice enhancement to my game experience.
Thanks
