Annotations for Hexes.

Making notes on the map.

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It would be handy to be able to place notes on hexes. The note could pop up on hover. Notes could be restricted to a character count to stop the pop-up causing too much trouble. A hex with a note attached could have the same border colour except slightly thicker. However a thicker border would not work well for hexes containing a planet.

I grant that a big question would be the control you use to create a note, what with right click being for movement.

As an alternative, just a built in notes function that doesn't interact with the map would be useful. Some kind of simple text storage thing with an icon in the top bar.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Interesting idea. I have been using rally points to keep notes about things of interest within a galaxy, since most of the interesting things I find are those that I will have to send a ship to anyway, such as graveyards with Pirates guarding them, high class planets I want to colonize, resource locations, etc. As a result, I end up with about 10 times as many rally points as planets and ships combined, and it works with the ship's "go to" function quite well. Now, if only I could sort the rally points in the "go to" list by name and distance  it would be heavenly.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

A simple feature of just being able to name map places would be helpful. Choose a hex and input "Krynn Nebula" and that text would then appear in the map as a place name in that hex. The game wouldn't have to know anything about what the names mean or even what their context is beyond that there's now an association of text to a hex. Anything in the game that uses reference names, for example starbase names, would use the place names if they are close enough.

"Deep Space starbase 13? Now, where the heck was that..."

"Krynn Nebula starbase? Right, that was over there near the Krynn border."

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I like this idea. Just being able to rename rally points and such would be useful. Naming map features would make organizing the empire's expanse much easier.

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Rally points can be renamed and always could be. Just select the rally point, click on the name in the window at the bottom left that describes it and a rename window appears.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Love this.  It was a nice feature in elemental fallen enchantress that city names appeared on the zoomed out map. 

 

Love to have something similar. 

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I personally would like to see the starbases marked on the map.  Since they are permament and non-moving.