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From: kenh@eclectic.COM (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Spaceward Ho 2.0 Suggestions
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Date: 5 Jun 91 13:15:16 GMT
References: <12981@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991May31.170041.9305@tc.fluke.COM> <1991Jun1.100822.1968@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jun1.100822.1968@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) writes:
>Yes!  This would be most helpful.  I often find myself with a planet that
>has been terraformed and mined, off in a corner of the galaxy (or in the
>very center of my area of control) where I don't care to build ships.  It
>would be quite nice to have the amount of $$$ spent on that planet stay
>exactly what is necessary to support it on each turn, shrinking to $0 as
>the planet's need drops to $0.

This reminds me of a related feature.  Sometimes I'll have a colony that
is now self-sufficient.  All of the sudden, it will go into the red
one turn.  SH will alert me in the status windoid, but sometimes
I'm just ending turns rapidly waiting for a colony to finish building
a ship or somesuch other task.  In the fund allocation chart it would
be nice if such a colony that's suddenly gone into the red would
be added (when you're only viewing a partial list).  That way it's
a more visual cue...
 
Ken



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