The production queue window is driving me bonkers. It is SO tiny. It takes many moves to bring something from the bottom to the top, since it doesn't scroll while you have selected something. And if you are the slightest bit off when placing it, BOOM, it goes to the bottom again.



Is there anything out there to fix this? Or do I just stop building the queue and do things one at a time?

There are indeed a number of keyboard shortcuts, including one for the production queue -- you can hold down the "ALT" key to reverse whether an item goes to the top or bottom of the queue. Here's a more complete list:



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crimedogg wrote:
Or do I just stop building the queue and do things one at a time?

When I first started playing the game, I would set up enormous queues of items to produce, and let each colony work its way through them. Lately, though, I've found I like to keep a closer watch on what they are all doing, so I've been keeping the queues shorter.



Also, you might try playing the Automatons once; the concept of receiving a production bonus for _not_ producing anything kind of twists around your perceptions of how to utilize a queue...

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it.



I will try the Automatons. I am playing my first game as Harmony so I am experiencing the opposite phenomenon for the first time.

Be careful with the automatons in multiplayer tho - its a LOT of clicking and planning to fully use them, which is not an easy task under the MP time limits

crimedogg wrote:
Is there anything out there to fix this? Or do I just stop building the queue and do things one at a time?

Why are you queuing up so many things anyways? new tech will obsolete those queues as it happens.

Just so you know, while the automatons can "hold" 10 turns of production, everyone else can hold 1 turn, to prevent waste when the last item on the queue is finished.

So, if you tell it to build a 10 production building on a 100 production system, next turn it starts with 90 stored production



that all being said, i agree that the UI for the queue is way too small, it was improved in endless legend but endless space is still tinny tiny

I was doing it while playing Harmony. So I suffer no penalty for building a ton of stuff and didn't want to lose any extra production. Since there is no way to speed things up, most of the time I could build a queue of the first ten or so things that would be the best. This was after discovering a lot of the tech tree. The problem came when trying to switch from a growth planetary explotation to a production one. Trying to move it from the bottom to the top was very frustrating. The ALT shortcut solves that. So does shorter queues.



So far I have only played with Sophons, custom and Harmony. I am really impressed so far how different the races are.