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The big point: If y'all want money, subscribers, you need new users that stick, including at least some who never played VGAplanets. Experienced users are also more tired of extra clicks, drags, etc, than they realize, especially for long turns.
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The large issue you raise, is, I think, that it is time to begin to shift programming hours from bug fixes and new game features, to usability issues. The old hands now have a quite satisfactory toy to play with, here. But in stark contrast new users (even old VGA vets who have just discovered Planets Nu go just about mad trying to figure out the simplest things. I simply can't recommend this site to my friends or relatives at this point, and absolutely not to kids, even though it's worth money to me. A great pity.
The previous torpedo advice doesn't actually work (nor did Google find this discussion when I was desperately trying to find the same answer.) Correct: go to planet, click transfer, click ship, NOW transfer the torps from the planet (where they torps aren't) to the ship (which isn't on the planet where the torps apparently are but can't be built.) Go figure.
I also have the same "small screen" issues - on a better than HD 23 inch monitor, because browser and OS settings I can't change back, just do that.
One more - when I started using the starmap, it was infuriating that when I moved the mouse pointer towards a planet a pop up box would come up immediately obscuring the planet, preventing me from clicking on the planet! I would be embarrassed to say how long it took me to figure out that, unlike every other web site I'd encounterd, I had to grab the map and shove it over, then move towards a planet or ship, 'cause that pop up box just didn't give a crap what I wanted to do, it wasn't gonna adjust its position for me, since humans were created to serve code, not the other way 'round.
I don't want to sound too sore about this, what exists is great, and I'm very grateful. But oh, the bumps on the road! I understand that bare functionality comes first, but I hope it's time for more usability coding.
The programmers need to sit and watch over the shoulder of a new user trying to come up to speed from zero.
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Also a problem with my better than HD resolution screen due to OS and browser settings that I can't easily change that inflate that box.