Improvement: Clustering stations for better empire overview

[Slapi73]

Hi,
With growing empire it is getting necessary to micromanage checkboxes in empire overview to see outputs and demands of independent (distant) production clusters. It might be helpful to have an ability to assign factory to cluster name of player choice or ID and then to have a switch to allow grouping empire overview by this value.

cheers
Slapi73

[Ocelot1210]

Thank you for your feature suggestion.

Currently, the Empire Overview page is a single screen that simply aggregates the plans of open stations. As you pointed out, this makes it cumbersome to monitor independent production clusters, since it requires frequent toggling of checkboxes.

To address this, I'm considering changing the Empire Overview to a multi-tab format, similar to the Station Calculator. This would allow players to open multiple overview tabs, each with a custom selection of stations. While the initial setup would still require manual selection, switching between clusters would become much easier by simply switching tabs. Additionally, just like the Station Calculator, players could manually adjust layouts to view statistics from multiple clusters side by side.

In any case, implementing this feature will take some time, so I appreciate your patience.