Let's tidy up the Shipyard

List is a mess

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One thing that bugs me in the shipyard window is how difficult is to go through the long list of ships. To make it more readable and user-friendly I suggest sorting buttons and tabs are introduced. These are already implemented in the designer and could easily be ported to the shipyard.

I suggest starting with at least the basics: sort the list by Hull Size, Weapon Type, Defence Type.

Then once the ships are sorted by that, you can apply secondary sorting, by cost,size etc. It already exists in the designer in some form, we just need it in the shipyard window so we can find the correct ship fast! 

Here's a rough and ready mock-up of what I'm talking about.

Sorting the shipyard

 

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i269/achronous/Shipyard%20Sorting.png

You can see the long list of ships to what it could look like after sorting.

Hopefully other people will support this and Stardock could consider it!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Screw tidying up the shipyard, I just want it so that a custom design doesn't get saved unless I specifically ask for it to be saved.

 

The specialized combat ships I make for game specific situations shouldn't be carried over from game to game. If they weren't then the list of user created ships would never be more than a page long and there'd be no need for tidying up.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I like both of these ideas, the ability to do a secondary sort and only saving designs when the player authorizes it.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Lavitage, reply 1

Screw tidying up the shipyard, I just want it so that a custom design doesn't get saved unless I specifically ask for it to be saved.

I'd take this if there was an option for autosaving. Star Ruler 2 uses this model....and I've raged at the computer when I've build a ship and forgotten to save it, so an option to autosave would be nice.

I would agree there are a lot of ad hoc ships that I wouldn't want carried over.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I don't mind if they get saved. You get the added bonus of seeing your ships in the next game when the AI starts using them. If you have good sorting then you can find the offending ships easily and delete them anyway.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Concur with the secondary sort. I would also like "Name" to be a secondary sort option, too (I have a tendency to name ships by model: BB, CA, CL... that Navy in me, I guess).

Another wish (BIG ONE) -- I would love to be able to permanently (for that game) "obsolete" system-designed ships. I have always been a big fan of designing my own ships (big sell-point for GC overall), so the default Battleaxes and Snipers simply get in the way for my play style, and provide lists of ships I'll never use.