Galactic chart

[ralph_hh]

Is there an OXP that does it? Otherwise I'd like to suggest the following feature:

The close range chart provides you with some data about the gouvernment and economy by little symbols. I miss such info in the long range galaxy chart. If you look i.e. for the nearest Anarchy planet or in general for an area with a few more of these, you are lost. The long range chart does not offer such information. It would be a bit overloaded, if it showed the symbols, but why could one not cycle through a third chart with the planets given a certain colour depending on their government type- or optionally just trigger this in the gal. map by a certain key. If the galaxy chart is displayed, pressing SHIFT may show you the gov. types with a color code information at the side.

(ALT may show you the economy type, if someone needs this in the early phases of the game, doing milk runs.)

[Cody]

Try cycling through with the '?' on the galactic chart (you need the ANA too, I think).
Hmm... perhaps that is in trunk only, and not in 1.80?

[cim]

'?' to cycle is in 1.80, but I think it works better for governments and economies in 1.81 since it explicitly matches the colour of the star to the colour of the zoomed-in icon (which is itself customisable through the new gui-settings.plist) rather than using an arbitrary and different spectrum.

[Cody]

On that subject, cim: any chance the selection preference could persist through quit/reloads?

[cim]

On that subject, cim: any chance the selection preference could persist through quit/reloads?

Added to the list.

[ffutures]

Wasn't there some discussion of an intermediate zoom between whole galaxy and local area a while ago? Something that would show a larger area but still show the government type etc. and could be scrolled in any desired direction? I thought someone said it was coming in the next release, but maybe I misunderstood.

[Cody]

In trunk, you can use Page Up/Down to zoom in/out to your preferred display, and scroll it too - it works fine (mostly).

[gizmo]

You can even use the mouse wheel to zoom in / out.