4 Examples + Question on CUMBERSOME micro-management:
1) Manu:
Suppose I can complete a certain building in this turn using 10 manu points and my planet can produce 15 manupoints if I use 100% manu, 0% research, 0% wealth. So if I use this setting, what is going to happen with the excess 5 manu points? I was told in beta 5 that these points are saved somehow or get into the next building in the queue. However that doesn't seem to be the case and also it's nowhere displayed.
2) Research:
Same question for research: suppose I need 1 turn to complete a tech, where are the excess research points going to and where is it displayed? Currently one has to micro-manage a lot (very cumbersome!!!) to not waste research points. Also in the tech tree actually I can nowhere see how much reserach points a certain tech costs to complete. Only "remaining turns" are completed, which is good, but not really helpful if I change my manu/research/wealth setting next turn.
3) Bug in updating "turns to complete a building in manu queue":
If I adjust the triangle in the manu/research/wealth planet governing settings, then the remaining turns to complete the buildings in the queue are not updated immediately (in the upper list of all buildings that I can build, it is, but not in the queue!). So because currently it seems that excess manu points are wasted (see 1), one has to change the manu/research/wealth triangle every turn such that one does not waste manu points. But because the "remaining turns" are not updated "live" for the currently build building (and the rest of the queue), one has to "move the triangle", click done, get out of the planet screen, get back (now I go to the next planet and back using the top arrows), "readjust the triangle" etc...until one has succeeded at putting the slider exaclty such that the current building is completed in this turn and no manu points are wasted. VERY CUMBERSOME!
4) Shipyards:
As in shipyards also excess manu points seem to be wasted and not transferred to the next ship in the queue, one has to micro-manage even more cumbersome: In the planet screen, one can nowhere see "remaining turns for the shipyard belonging to this planet". So if I adjust the social-military-slider such that the ship is completed in this turn, but not excess manu points are wasted, I have to move the slider, get out of the planet screen, click on the shipyard to see the remaining turns for the currently built ship, if you are not lucky, it's not one but 2 turrns, so get back into the planet screen, move the slider a little bit into the military direction, get out again, check the shipyard....VERY CUMBERSOME.
SOLUTION:
a ) Excess manu/research points must be transferred to the next building/ship/tech. That has to be displayed well.
b ) Update manu queue immediatly when moving the manu/research/wealth triangle.
c) Show somewhere in the planet screen also the queue of the associated shipyard and also update it immediatly when moving the triangle and/or the social-military slider. If you don't want to show the whole ship queue that show at least the currently built ship.