Checkbox

The original announcement of this feature can be found here.

A small checkbox next to the X on each of your planet, starship, and starbase interface panes and also a button in the navigation which toggles between "all" and "idle" comprise the Mark Ready functionality. This is a tool to help organize your empire and turn play and reduce the time spent going through those ships, planets, and starbases that you've already managed.

As you play your turn you can choose to check off the planets, ships, and starbases you have finished giving orders to. As you check them off they will no longer be included in your idle list. So, if you have 50 planets then normally your navigation bar says Planet x of 50. But if you show only idle planets and you have marked 3 of your planets as ready then the navigation bar will show Planet x of 47. Clicking Back or Next will only move you through the planets which have not been marked as ready. When there are no more planets you will not be able to load the idle list.

The checkbox has three modes:

• Not Ready (no checkmark) - Always show this when it comes up in the cycle.
• Ready (single checkmark) - Don't show in the idle list, will be reset back to Not Ready after host runs.
• Always Ready (double checkmark) - This will be left as always ready and not included in the idle list until an event occurs that will cause the planet, ship or starbase to "wake up" or you manually uncheck it.

The following events will wake up planets:

• A riot or civil war
• A giant meteor impact
• Overpopulation
• New natives discovered
• Ground attack or direct attack
• Pillage planet
• Rebel ground attack
• Super Spy changed Friendly Code

The following events will wake up ships:

• Arrival at waypoint if moving (so you can set your ship to fly to a far off planet and it will wake up when it arrives)
• Being attacked
• Being robbed
• An enemy ship is detected within 81 light-years (162 if its Gravitonic)
• Cloak failure
• Moved through minefield (or hit mine)
• Inside ion storm
• A Chunnel opening at the ship's coordinates
• Hit by glory device
• Loki decloak
• Terraforming starships will wake up when optimum temperature is reached

The following events will wake up starbases:

• Ship built
• Planet attacked

You can toggle the ready checkbox using the hotkey: "r"

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