I have the same difficulity seeing the constructor's AoE. It is much fainter than the starbase AoE. I would love an intensity slider. BTW, I don't know which Race color is used since there are a couple of shades in my game. At any rate, I prefer not to change the Race colors. I mean they do differentiate the Races.

I run the game accross two monitors. Even though I've tried everything to get the monitors the exact same, I can see the constructors sphere a lot better in one monitor than the other. It's the only difference I can see between the two, but it is quite noticable. I thought it might be a monitor setting, but everything I've tried to get the sphere to show up better in the other monitor hasn't helped. Maybe it's just a monitor thing. I'm still not sure..

Try stacking a few constructors on top of each other. The sphere should grow more prominent as you add more constructors to the stack. Not that this is going to help you any as the individual constructor on it's own will still have a faint sphere, but it will show you that it is not the monitor. Not sure if this helps anything but it was just my observation.

Thanks. That's about what I figured it covered, any tile partly inside the circle gets the effect, nice to have it confirmed

Thanks. That's about what I figured it covered, any tile partly inside the circle gets the effect, nice to have it confirmed

Yep. That's it. If only the constructor influence area was the correct size (and you could see it) then you wouldn't need the picture.

But back to the OP's original problem. I've never had much difficulty seeing the constructor area on my monitor. I've most recently played the Drath (orange race color), the Torians (green) and Drengin (red). When I've played the Drath the default orange appears very much like the Drengin red (at least on my monitor) so I changed the race color to gold. I've had no trouble seeing the constructors influence area with any of these colors. Actually, the gold race color also shows up the auto pilot and trade route paths quite nicely. It also doesn't conflict with any other races default color. I know it's not the prefered solution but you might want to give it a try.

It hasn't been dimmed that I'm aware. On this subject though, the AoE fields are markedly improved visibility-wise in DA (sorry, can't post a screenshot--this is all Cari said I could tell ).