The main problem for me is not that I mind going down to system level and flying from planet-to-planet collecting spice. The frustrating part is that, when you have an enormous empire, it is impossible to keep track of where you have set up productive spice colonies.

Many systems I own either because I took them during a war or bought them through trade, and never bothered building them up. I don't want to fly to and zoom into a system to collect five red spice here, ten yellow spice there.

So, put something on the galactic view. My two thoughts are either show above each system how much spice is ready to be collected in that system, or - even simpler - when all colonized planets in a system are maxed on spice, put some sort of beacon above the system on the galactic view. Makes sense that when storage facilities are full, a colony would call in the captain to collect the goods, right?

I think those are excellent ideas! A little more feedback on the Galactic level would really help make things much less tedious.

Good ideas there. You have my support.

I would want it customizable...one button for each color spice. Press it and the numbers appear above the planets in YOUR systems.

I agree 100% it would be very nice if each planet sold some spice on it own also. What are all those ships flying between my star systems doing anyway? If each system just sold one spice an hour it would give more reason to build and protect an empire. One more thing I was really looking forward to - was talking/working with Tribe and Civ planets, what happen to that? All in all I enjoy the game, however I do feel alittle let down. Maybe I was expecting too much but the 2005 vid was great and that was what I was expecting. I would also like to see a better map for wormholes. Something like a pull up map just for worm holes - maybe. After all if we make it to space you would think we would have a way to record wormhole after we find them - right? I may just be wanting too much after all my empire has not found a way to buy and sell on it's own yet. That's my two cents - may we never talk of it again.

Hindsight89 wrote:I would want it customizable...one button for each color spice. Press it and the numbers appear above the planets in YOUR systems.

That is a great idea!!!

Agree - make spice pickup easier.

I'd actually like a trading table that'd let me look to see who actually wants to buy what I've got. So instead of my flying around zooming in and out from a dozen different planets to see "do you want some blue spice?", that I'd know where I need to take the load.

I made a suggestion very similar to this somewhere in my Feedback posts.

I support this idea.

Fantastic ideas... mouseover information would also help. Or even hitting the I key over a particular star system, like they implemented in the creator to get information about a part.