User-defined production times for production conversion

Good one!

My two cents:

First: this is a player mistake, not a design fail. But confess I did this mistake, so any reminder or regulation will be welcome (maybe stockpiles from EL, not sure).

Second: I upvoted your idea because I like the concept, but nor sure how it can be implemented with actual GUI. I think best ways may be put a limit of turns and after that you have to queue the conversion again, put reminders, or the EL stockpiles system I mentioned before (If you didn't play EL, I recommend you take a look).

Good luck here!

lo_fabre wrote:

Good one!

My two cents:

First: this is a player mistake, not a design fail. But confess I did this mistake, so any reminder or regulation will be welcome (maybe stockpiles from EL, not sure).

Second: I upvoted your idea because I like the concept, but nor sure how it can be implemented with actual GUI. I think best ways may be put a limit of turns and after that you have to queue the conversion again, put reminders, or the EL stockpiles system I mentioned before (If you didn't play EL, I recommend you take a look).

Good luck here!

I'm glad to see that you like it. It is always extra reassuring to see an "Old-Timer" giving your idea support!

I'm quite curious though, why do you feel that having a small po-up come up in which the player can type in for how many turns he/she wants to wait is not the best solution?  Being a somewhat inexperienced programmer myself, I fail to see how such an addition can be that hard to implement though maybe I am simply missing something obvious...

TheStoneWolf wrote: 

I'm glad to see that you like it. It is always extra reassuring to see an "Old-Timer" giving your idea support!

Oh thanks! Not so sure about that. I've been playing Amplitude games for long, but not one of the best precisely.

I'm quite curious though, why do you feel that having a small po-up come up in which the player can type in for how many turns he/she wants to wait is not the best solution?  Being a somewhat inexperienced programmer myself, I fail to see how such an addition can be that hard to implement though maybe I am simply missing something obvious...

IMO this will be the best way. But to be honest, I got no programming or modding skills, so nut sure if this will be difficult to implement in the game. Anyway will be very good to see the concept implemented someway.

I was thinking about this as well. Few ideas to the table.

Separate all convertion projects to a separate GUI element, add a checkbox for "sticky" mode. By default a convertion project is in "fall through", i.e. when you add new construcion to the queue, convertion automatically moves to  the end. In "sticky" mode convertion project blocks the queue.

As alternative to timers - wake up all convertion projects when a new building type becomes available in empire (and only on planets eligible for it).