There's too much clicking in this (fantastic) game

A few suggestions

from Sins Forums
One or two thousands less clicks per game wouldn't hurt:

- An entire screen in the research menu for fleet logitics isn't necessary. Why not add 2 little buttons (next to the fleet/capital available numbers) to upgrade your fleet and your capital supply ?

- Make the black market screen directly accessible via a button on the main UI.

- When you select a ship, all the "tactics managment" features (retreat, create fleet, etc) should be directly available (with all the capitals abilities, you need to add some free slots though)

- Also, it would be great to see how many civil and military research labs we have anytime during the game.

Keep up the good work, this game is wonderfull ;)

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
In the beta you could always see how many labs you've built, don't know why they removed that as it was very usefull.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

- Also, it would be great to see how many civil and military research labs we have anytime during the game.
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Seconded!
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
You can remap hot-keys to avoid some of those clicks to open those pesky screens. That might save you some time and a few clicks anyway. :/
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
The lab system keeps hanging me up as well. I understand it, but somehow there feels like a large nuisance factor involved. I am constantly finding myself wondering how many free logistic spots I have, and how many more times I can upgrade each planet's capacity. The search button is decent, but having to go to search-logistic slots-then try and identify all the circles it highlights on the tiny map really seems like a lot of steps for something done so frequently/constantly.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

You can remap hot-keys to avoid some of those clicks to open those pesky screens. That might save you some time and a few clicks anyway. :/
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Thanks for your answer. There's no hot-keys to go directly to the the fleet logictics screen or the black market screen :(

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
In the research menu the background is coloured according to how many labs you have.
You have to look closely if you dont know about it, but once you do its very easy to see how many labs you have.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for your answer. There's no hot-keys to go directly to the the fleet logictics screen or the black market screen
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Instead of going to the black market screen, press F5 to sell metal, ctrl-F5 to buy it. F6 to sell crystal, ctrl-F6 to buy it.

Check out the key bindings.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

In the research menu the background is coloured according to how many labs you have.
You have to look closely if you dont know about it, but once you do its very easy to see how many labs you have.
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Only works for constructed labs -- the one in beta would get the results for all labs, not just finished labs.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top


Thanks for your answer. There's no hot-keys to go directly to the the fleet logictics screen or the black market screen


Instead of going to the black market screen, press F5 to sell metal, ctrl-F5 to buy it. F6 to sell crystal, ctrl-F6 to buy it.

Check out the key bindings.





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True, but even if you can increase/decrease offer price/amount with hot-keys, you need to go to the market screen very often to see the exact price/amount.


Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
Well there is F3 to go to the "underground screen" which will be either pirates or the black market depending on what you had open last...anyway I'm sure your already aware of this just saying there's about as many hot-key options as one could hope for.