Star atlas UI and ship upgrade

[Cluzo]

Hello Trese Brothers and fellow captains,

Before going to business, i'd like to say i've been playing the game for little more than a week, but it's amazing, i hadn't that much fun for ages ! And now i'm trying to put these newbie eyes to work in order to make a few suggestions, hoping they'll be of some use.

First on the Star atlas UI, while I think it's overall rather clear and practical there are two things that surprised me : 

• When you're looking for specific products you have to look at each system one by one for availability, it's a bit of a chore when you're doing lot of trading. Adding 2 filters, one on specific product, and on buy/sell would make trader's life far easier.
• Star atlas show you current quadrant info, if you want to look at neighbour quadrant (for trading opportunities for instance...), you have to go on the global map on the desired quadrant to access its Star atlas. While not terrible, it's pretty counterintuitive and i would have completely missed it if the great guys on the Discord hadn't told me about i

Second thing i'd like to talk is the ship upgrade system. The system itself is fine, but As a newbro i have a small gripe about it : it doesn't let you experiment. Since you have to pay for changes immediately you can't try several several configuration to see what works best for you. You need to save/reload before each modification. I think it would be better if you can do all the changes you want, and then validate/pay for it, it would help new players learn the impact of some default components on the ship. I'm well aware that change would require quite bit of the undelying code rework though, so creating a "ship simulator" might be easier and could reach the same goal.

I hope this feedback will have some value for you and keep up the great work guys!

[fallen]

Cluzo - many thanks for the post, the encouragement, and glad to hear you are enjoying the game. hope you'll leave a review on your market, cory and I would highly appreciate it

1) Instead of adding filters with 60+ items, we're looking forward to a search feature that would help.
2) Having a filter for "distance" that would let you look at a wider array of zones would help.

It is on our long list to allow multiple ship upgrades basically put into a "cart" and then you can purchase them all at the end. This also helps a lot if you are juggling any restricted field like Mass, crew beds, etc and want to make changes in one swoop by swapping X number of things.

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Just gonna throw my 2 cents in and say I would really love a 'global' star atlas or 'star encyclopedia', where I can access information on all of the planets I've visited across all quadrants, with multiple filters not for every trade good but for the key statistics. I presume it would be a ton of work but think of the ways it could be used.

When looking for trade deals for example, I would filter by distance (the least quadrant hops), then faction (ones I have a trade permit with), then filter by trade law (so I can sell those explosives).

Or perhaps I could be looking to find the nearest indie planet to burn off some heat from all the factions I've fallen out with.

Or I could easily find that amazing wild zone I didn't notice a few quadrants away because I only landed there to visit the population zone next to it.

I apologise if someone has already suggested this, I haven't been as active on the forums as I used to be.