The Production wheel and a quick suggestion.

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I see there is a new picture of the production wheel.  It took a while to spot the differences.

Anyway, one simple quick suggestion that I think you guys might like to know about...

Regarding the dashed line, it represents where you are profitable.  I imagine it moves as your economy changes.  I also expect that you can select deficit spending if you want to.  Now here is the suggestion, make it so that if you are holding ctrl or if you have a readily available option button on the gui, so that you are unable to drag the pip out of the profitable section.  Thus if you are not holding ctrl or don't have that option button selected you can do deficit spending.  If you are holding ctrl, then you can quickly and easily drag the pip to the profit line by moving your mouse beyond the line.  The pip has to stay in the circle, so you get instant most efficient spending.  No fuss no muss.

Let me guess you guys already thought of that?  Well just in case here it is.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I,m not sure i have noticed any problem as you describe?? Although in Galciv 2 i did find that influence was often very time consuming to trade - The more advanced the game the more difficult to set the level of influence to the maximum the AI will accept.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You could also just have the pin stop at the line initially.  It would have to be selected again to drag it into the negative.  In other words it's impossible to drag from positive to negative without first having it forcefully stop ON the line.  Then you don't have to worry about hot keys. 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'm going to go off and disagree and agree at the same time....

I like the idea of it stopping on the line but I would prefer it only happen when I press a hot-key or possibly a toggle at the edge of the line

so that I could place the cursor wherever I want but if I hold down a key it snaps to the  0 profit line and I can drag it along that arc to choose what level of research/production I want

 

edit : after re-reading your post i realized that i misread it actually agree with you completely

so the question is if i place my cursor on the line and it moves back/shrinks for some reason am i now in deficit spending or is there some way i can lock the cursor to that line and it will move as that line moves

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Being able to pin the spending on that line or a percent thereof should also be possible.

So if I set the spending at 10% above the line it should go up and down with the line. (OR 10% deficit spending for that matter)

It would be nice to get a notice if the "governor" that does that is unable to maintain the spending.

In regards to making it so that I would need to drag the pip twice to cross the line, I am not sure I like that idea.  If I use CTRL to drag below the line and the pip stops on the line, I can then move the mouse right or left to find the exact percentage I want.  If I then decide to drag again and see what something else looks like, I can keep holding the CTRL and stay there.  But with your solution it will now drift below the the line.

We could still have it your way, but we would still need a button or CTRL to keep it up there in case we want to make adjustments.