EchoView

I was just about to post that.

In Echoview you can put warp circles on any planet (at the moment only on owned planets), the warp circles can be configured (normally I run warp 9 - and HYP if I have a HYP race).

Edit:  you could do this for two planets at a time (IIRC)

I am also wishing I could download an RST and view it on Echoview. But Joshua is new to it, so I think we can ask for the features that we are missing the most and take it step by step.

For me I miss two things: (4 test games so far)

1) The graphical overview in the starmap of minerals (mined/unmined/rate produced per turn).

2) The build simulator (so that you can see how many turns until you have what you want on a planet: facotries, mines, defenses but also minerals, credits etc)

I have yet to test how the UI behaves with mines, when I played cloaked races I loved to be able to see the % of hitting a mine and play the lottery with that.

I'm playing Evil Empire in Rebirth4 and really miss the warp circles to plan my hyperjumps.

As a work around I use Echo View without RST information to do the planning.

(Yes, I've a virtual machine on my Mac that runs Windows XP to be able to use WinPlan and tools like Echo View. It's not very convenient, but as long as I play regular games, I'll stick to it.)

Arjaan

I can only agree that the VGA planets "NU" really need some of the functions of echo view and also some way to make planets build-up easier - like randmax

As it is now I cannot imagine playing a real game with many planets to control.

Best wishes

JoeSnoffy

Maybe a system to allow players to get rst files could solve many problems.

If this is possible at all I don't know.

Best wishes,

JoeSnoffy

• the "minefield simulation" (prediction) functionality
• the recording of all collected ship information (sightings, movements, equipment, etc.)
• the recording of all collected planet information (colonists, natives, temperature, minerals, buildings, etc.)

Now we can see MANY of EchoView features on NU.  :0)

Some I still miss (but I can live without it):
- Map tool for amount of Clans, Money, Supplies and specially navites and his race. Right now we have this tool just for minerals
- Info about the right clans to drop on a planet (colonist needed to grow). Of course it depends in the race you are playing, so it may be a little hard to do.

The battle simulator was great but there are many websites where you add the ships data and it simulates the battle. Also they simulate planet development. Example:
http://www.vgaplanets.ca/vgapcalc.php

(2) done for Cash and Supplies in Starmap

(4) done via Search function.

Perhaps that can already be done with some tricks I didn't find out yet, but right now I think I can only use notes for ships. What I would like to have would be some kind of a game specific notebook function. That way I could just quickly note down what I planned to do, what planets need what or where I plan to move a fleet to - stuff like that.