good idea,

i want a combo with fillable numbers and the option to lock 1

so my choice isnt there

Stop the madness Max! We don't need a poll, I prefer the wheel to but its just a alpha version and it needs our feedback to improve. (I admire your initiative and curiosity though. )

 I picked no opinion because the wording was to stiff and did not reflect well on the feedback on the forums. The sliders are worse because they are all separate. The wheel is bad because it's so tiny and loose. But will probably end up being better and faster. I couldn't say that on the poll. (nice website you found, I think the devs might use it in the future.)

You also said the answer to your question by saying the current Wheel design is probably not final, that also makes it hard to form a Sovereign opinion in three black and white boxes. (One who seeks righteousness in democracy, will only find a multitude of opinions.)

DARCA.

In brad feedback 031014 they mention " the profitability dotted line" when talking about the wheel. So i think we can at least expect a line that indicates when a planet is paying for itself.

I suppose a fillable field where you can enter a desired production amount, which would then pop up a line at which that amount of production is achieved, would be cool too. As im sure many people will find it hard to eyeball that on a wheel isntead of a slider. This would be very usefull when you want to see if you can produce a ship in 4 turns instead of 5 for example. Or perhaps a checkbox called "optimize production" that when checked will show you where turn amount transitions occur on the wheel for the thing your currently producing, either with line(s) or colors.

ofcourse it would be abit more complicated then that when the double queue comes back, when theres essentially 4 variables (social production, military production, research, wealth) so maybe the whole wheel isn't the optimal solution anymore then.

maybe with 4 variables it has to become something like this

or even... the production square:

 (or the production tetrahedron?)

or maybe some pie chart that you can drag/adjust or something

For what it is worth I really love the production wheel!

I don't want the sliders back.  My biggest gripe with planetary production management in GC2 was that every time I increased points to one area of spending, the points were arbitrarily taken from the other two areas - usually the area I didn't want to lose points from.  The wheel is a good step, but it needs work.

So far the way I play Is I barely use the global wheel ever. I just set it to 100% something on each colony lol.

Until I run out of money, then I improvise.

I have played GC1 and GC2 since they went into Alpha, so you are right, I have developed a taste for how it works. However, I like the wheel and hope it develops into a better way of controlling this mechanic of the game. However, right now it has some deficiencies, which is why I pointed them out. Since the wheel is still a work in progress, I was hoping the devs would find some elegant way of resolving those deficiencies.

If there's two things in this crappy world that I hate, it's polls and the friggin production wheel.

Sliders may not be as hip and cool as the new production wheel, but they're simpler to use when trying to get exact numbers.  I think the production wheel is clunky.  Instead of just setting the sliders to the values I want, I have to go searching for some little hex that represents those values.  And who the hell knows where that's going to be, right?

You could do that if you make it a tetrahedron, but that's going to be completely unintuitive for most people. 

My main point is, while the wheel is a pretty neat solution if theres 3 variables, it's rather useless when a 4th variable is added when the double production queues come back.

I think the current plan is to keep the wheel and then add a slider to divide the production set in the wheel between military and social, but that doesn't strike me as a very elegant solution.

lol, indeed,  I think that would be much more annoying to use than the wheel + 1 slider.

I posted a lot on this very issue in this thread. Seems like people do not like this solution for no other reason than it is not "elegant".

I disagree, I find it perfectly fine and so far no one has suggested a better alternative.

So, was your hate for the production wheel strong enough to commit into voting in the dreadful poll?

I think the wheel is a good improvement, however, until the build times update as i adjust the setting it still needs work.  the values update and the wealth updates, but the values on the right for my build que don't update until i add something else to the que or come back to the planet from changing screens.

i'm sure that will be put in at some point. That's a pretty standard feature i'm sure they just haven't got around to it yet.