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Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanagement

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:04 am
by Zireael
I wish the buildings tab on production screen were split three ways:
1) buildings -> these affect only the current planet
2) shipyards -> a single shipyard in a system, to limit micromanagement (why should I have the option to build a shipyard in all 6 planets in a system is beyond me, as it's completely unnecessary)
3) wonders/breakthroughs -> whatever we call them. The kind of buildings that we should be only 1 in an empire and which affect the entire empire (Observatory, Bioterror Projection Base, Genome Bank, Cloning Center etc.)

I realize the problem of already built buildings appearing on the list would not be solved, but this way at least, the screen would be less cluttered.

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Another idea I had - limiting the number of buildings that can be built on a planet. Shipyards would be excepted, as they are built in-system rather than on-planet, fluff-wise. Either a general cap, say, 10, or a cap depending on a planet's size and/or habitability.

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:47 pm
by eleazar
Zireael wrote:Another idea I had - limiting the number of buildings that can be built on a planet. Shipyards would be excepted, as they are built in-system rather than on-planet, fluff-wise. Either a general cap, say, 10, or a cap depending on a planet's size and/or habitability.
If the buildings are more than rarely pushing 10 per planet (excluding shipyards), then we've probably defined the buildings so that too many are 'build-everywhere' buildings.

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:33 pm
by marhawkman
I can't think of many, just SYs.

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:31 pm
by Zireael
I thought of the cap before I thought about making SYs systemwide.

Indeed, making SYs systemwide would probably remove the problem of too many buildings at a planet.

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:38 am
by Zireael
Bump - any hope of getting the tabs split? I saw another person on these forums who complained about already built items being in the 'producible' tab...

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:50 pm
by eleazar
Zireael wrote:I thought of the cap before I thought about making SYs systemwide.

Indeed, making SYs systemwide would probably remove the problem of too many buildings at a planet.
Huh? There's seldom a reason to build more than one shipyard in a system, so enforcing one shipyard per system wouldn't change much.

Though currently the species of the planet with the shipyard determines the species of the colony ship, so unless that gets changed-- one shipyard per system is not a good idea. In the future different species will probably be better or worse at ship combat.

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:46 am
by marhawkman
I'll often do it at a location with a strategic sugnificance. Isn't a single shipyard limited in how many resources it can consume each turn?

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:47 am
by Zireael
Maybe a single shipyard for a system is a bad idea, but what about these tabs?

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:05 pm
by eleazar
marhawkman wrote:I'll often do it at a location with a strategic sugnificance. Isn't a single shipyard limited in how many resources it can consume each turn?
No, though making such a limit has been considered.

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:59 am
by Zireael
Is there a chance of getting the tabs I mentioned in the first post? It would make the lists clearer and more understandable...

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:45 pm
by Bigjoe5
Zireael wrote:Is there a chance of getting the tabs I mentioned in the first post? It would make the lists clearer and more understandable...
Not easily. The classification of buildings you described aren't different in terms of anything that could easily be sorted by.

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:29 am
by Zireael
Bigjoe5 wrote:
Zireael wrote:Is there a chance of getting the tabs I mentioned in the first post? It would make the lists clearer and more understandable...
Not easily. The classification of buildings you described aren't different in terms of anything that could easily be sorted by.
So why do we have these "wonder-type buildings" and "shipyards"? Both of these have different usage than "standard buildings"...

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:58 pm
by Bigjoe5
Zireael wrote:
Bigjoe5 wrote:
Zireael wrote:Is there a chance of getting the tabs I mentioned in the first post? It would make the lists clearer and more understandable...
Not easily. The classification of buildings you described aren't different in terms of anything that could easily be sorted by.
So why do we have these "wonder-type buildings" and "shipyards"? Both of these have different usage than "standard buildings"...
Every building has a different use from every other type of building. I'm not even sure what the distinction you're making between "wonder-type buildings" and "standard buildings" is, and the only thing that distinguishes a "shipyard" from a "standard building" is that there exist some ship parts or hulls that have that building as a location condition - not the easiest thing to check for. We could do it with tags, I guess, but then that seems to needlessly confuse the relationship between the source code and the content files.

Also, there's no reason "shipyards" couldn't have some effects like normal buildings too...

Re: Buildings - making a better list, limiting micromanageme

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:00 pm
by eleazar
Zireael wrote:1) buildings -> these affect only the current planet
Do we even currently have any like that?

The general plan is to avoid the MoO/Civ "build lots of buildings everywhere" thing. I part by making them more like Wonders (wide ranging effect) or useful only in specific situations (Shipyards).