I'd like colony threats like Pirate raids, faction expeditions or inspection fleets to have a countdown to arrival / estimated arrival date on screen whenever they are active.
There's plenty of space under the date in the top-left to accomodate this.
It's such a chore to have keep constantly flicking in and out of intel to see how close important events are.
ninja edit : not technically not a ui suggestion, but can toggle systems like burn drive have a minimum duration set in the csv, so that the system doesn't instantly get toggled if the player's mashing the button
I've been burned by this many times. I've been trying to train myself to
hold buttons instead of mashing them to avoid it.
some sound of effect when you deploy shields.
This already exists. And for turning them off again.
They're in \starsector-core\sounds\sfx_shields\
You'll probably recognise them once you hear them on thier own, and be like "oh, thats what that was..."