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Suggestions / Naval Market: Returning to the Era of the Obvious Ship Catalogue
« on: August 17, 2019, 12:43:28 PM »
For a few versions now the ship and goods market have been rolled into the same planetary interaction option. This is, quite frankly, absolutely fine. Condensing similar menu options in order to make way for more diverse interactions isn't a bad idea. However with the recent influx of new players and users this has revealed an unintentional flaw in how it's handled.
A very noticeable number of new players don't actually realize there's a market for buying and selling ships.
For those of us who have played the game long enough we're familiar with and used to using the hotkeys for navigating the planetary menus while going about our business. New players do not have that familiarity with the UI and standard menu hotkeys. The ship market currently isn't advertised in any way, shape or form and that needs to change. Somehow. I'm no master of UI design so someone else can come up with that.
A very noticeable number of new players don't actually realize there's a market for buying and selling ships.
For those of us who have played the game long enough we're familiar with and used to using the hotkeys for navigating the planetary menus while going about our business. New players do not have that familiarity with the UI and standard menu hotkeys. The ship market currently isn't advertised in any way, shape or form and that needs to change. Somehow. I'm no master of UI design so someone else can come up with that.