Some interface suggestions. What do you think?

Hi all

First of all: great game!!

After playing a few hours, I have a few suggestions to make about the interface.

- When you're looking at a planet and you see the lines connecting other planets, it'd be great to show the infocard of the connected planet when you hover the cursor above the line. That way the situational awareness would be increased and you could know some info without needing to move the camera.

- The message "last intel from xxx seconds" is a great addition. However, I think it should display in hours:minutes:Seconds format. It's not very handy to know it's 2000 seconds old.

- Just one more: I tend to click over the empire icon to select my planets, however you usually have to click somewhere bellow it. I think it would be more intuitive if you could click on the icon also.

That's all. My 2cents for making a great game even better!
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Personally, I don't much care for suggestion #1, sorry, just my preference. But your second and third suggestions appeal to me.

I also have another suggestion or reccommendation, regarding info cards displayed while hovering over build buttons, regardless if ships or buildings. If a given technology hasn't been researched in order to build something, list in that building's/ship's info card which technology is required.

There's been several time I'll hover over something in the build menus, and it'll tell me I'm missing the required research/technology, but it won't tell me which one I would need. So I end up opening the research tree and spending an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what I need, in order to build my research plan/strategy.
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yea im the same around the tech bit - when i've played some more i'll know what techs ineed but at the momment i can be a little lost trying to work out which techs do what for which options... it would be a helpful little improvement