Feature request: Trade advisor

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It'd be great if you could somewhere see the each race's richest planet you don't currently have a trade route to. This would save clicking on dozens of planets on larger maps as you try to work out where to send your next freighter. The trade screen or inteligence report would seem like a good place for this.

Hopefully this wouldn't require much coding, since the data is already tracked in other places, and would get rid of some nasty micromanagement.

Also, would it be possible to fix the details screen on enemy planets? Currently while most details there relate to the enemy planet the civilision rank is bugged to always say xth of x where x is the players number of planets.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Also being able to interact with the advisor, "Minion, I wish to trade with the _insert_race_here_ . Show me which routes would be most lucrative... " and the advisor responds with the top 5 (if there is that many).

In addition, a route analysis.. Like stop route # x which isn't earning as much as it could if we sent it farther out.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Darkrenown, I'm not sure if the PQ or economic status of a planet chosen as a trading partner is taken into consideration at all when calculating the value of the trade route. The distance traveled by the freighter certainly is, and in DA the value of a route increases over time. I have always chosen the highest PQ planet in a system to trade with first, (out of habit), but I haven't noticed any obvious difference in the amount of revenue I receive from that one, as opposed to the lower PQ in the same system. Am I correct in my assumptions?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
From the manual:
"The farther the ship travels to
establish a route, the more lucrative the route. Also, the more
populated the destination and home planet, the more lucrative the
route."

So the PQ doesn't directly affect the value of the route, but most of the time higher PQ planets will have higher pop and be better trade partners. The actual income of the planet doesn't affect it, I typed richest meaning "best to trade with" rather than meaning "has most income", which probably wasn't the best word choice