I started a few weeks ago and I don't have that many planets on-screen, but the names are total gibberish, and I can't keep track of which is which!

Three ideas:

- First is simple enough (I'm sure people have mentioned this before): Let me rename colonized planets. "OreWorld IV" would mean a lot more to me than Trophyllax, Gorlitt, and Srollan. Would be very helpful, even if only I can see the new name or something?

- Second involves giving more info on the Planet screen. It would be very cool if it displayed the Availability of ALL 3 resources right up front. So if I decide I need more mineral production, I can just sort my planets by Minerals and decide where to build more mines, etc. A planet size / space used column would be cool too. As a side note about the current Planet Screen, I can't figure out why I would need to know a planet's Type, but like I said I'm new.

- Third, it would be cool if I could assign a little symbol (that only I could see) to planets, like a gold star for my 'capitol worlds' that I want to invest heavily in. And a bullseye could be assigned to enemy planets ripe for attacking. And an orange cone next to planets I've decided to condemn to be abandoned. Etc, etc, etc.... Think 'Labels' in your Gmail account - LOL.

Thanks for reading

The first idea has been mentioned before as you said and I don't know if it will ever come to pass or not.

The second idea is a little iffy. For one it shows you on the screen what the best resource for that world is. They also give you a search bar so you can search for say a rich mining world and it will show you all of them. Also the planet size is on that planet screen, and just as a heads up it gives you the planet type because that way it is easer to search for a world and most within that category of world have the same kind of ups and downs. For example a gas world normally only has research and is a larger world where a barren world gives you mostly minerals but is a smaller world. Then different types of worlds are rarer than others such as exotic, Terra's, and metallics.

As for the third that could be a cool idea. I don't know if it will ever come to pass but I would enjoy an option such as that. It would be better if you could then use the search bar to find worlds you marked like that.

And while we're at it, how about a garbage can to dump all the crappy planets into so we don't have to parse past them every time we're looking at the total planet list for the one we want to colonize next.

The crappy planets would still be there and count against our scans; this is just something we could use to put them aside to quit cluttering everything up (and it could be opened again if we want to for some reason).


And I like the idea of the resource sorting (his #2 suggestion). I have a planet that has equally good artifact and research production, but the "best" production defaults to artifact (I guess because it starts with A), so I tend to overlook it when I wanted to increase research. With the sorting by resource in place, I would see both.