Implement a better clone overview
As per rudel:
I always have trouble calculating how many minerals and MC I need to clone a ship. Last turn my cloning failed because I build too many fighters in the same turn...
I initially thought this was unnecessary until I thought about it quite a bit. It is more of a hassle than in 3.5 because the ship data is not available anywhere within the game for ships you can't build. It is silly, with all the improvements you guys are making, that this should be so. Here is the solution I presented...
My first choice is to have the SB change color in some obvious way. Then use hover text with the cloning information.
Clone Order Issued by ship #317.
This will require...
2048 megacredits
128 duranium
96 tritanium
256 molybdenum
Perhaps, Joshua could also change the color of the resource numbers on the planet to the same color as the SB as a reminder, or perhaps it only changes color if it is less than the amounts necessary. If we combine this with the updated clone description found here:
http://planets.nu/discussion/update-cln-clone-description
...we are pretty close to making ship cloning reasonably user-friendly for new players.