Trade route scheduling / planning
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:41 pmThis suggestion is for a function to create future trade routes.
Essentially a copy or copies of all of your trade routes, but for routes you want to run in the future.
I suggest the ability to save and name trade route sets and schedule their activation.
Basically you create a new set of trade routes while your current routes keep running. When you are done you can name and save the routes, click to assign the routes imediately, or set a date and time to start the new routes.
So when you are at the trade routes page you might see the following options
Active trade routes - trade routes 3 ( this would be the pages you go to currently - only change is that it can be custom named )
Trade routes 1. Starts at 12:00:00 1/30/2018 ( a full set of trade routes with custom name that has been setup to start in the future)
Hideout supply route ( another full set of trade routes with custom name that is saved but has no future activation set )
Trade routes 2 ( another full set of trade routes with custom name that is saved but has no future activation set )
To clarify these are not routes to add to your current trade routes. This reassigns all your trade routes.
for example the one I custom named hideout supply route, may be exactly the same as trade routes 3 with 10 fleets diverted to stock your hideout.
when you need to fill your hideout warehouse you open this saved set and activate it. when you are done stocking your hideout, you might
open trade routes 3 and reactivate it to send the fleets back to their previous routes.
edit - added a few things to make it more clear what I am suggesting.
Essentially a copy or copies of all of your trade routes, but for routes you want to run in the future.
I suggest the ability to save and name trade route sets and schedule their activation.
Basically you create a new set of trade routes while your current routes keep running. When you are done you can name and save the routes, click to assign the routes imediately, or set a date and time to start the new routes.
So when you are at the trade routes page you might see the following options
Active trade routes - trade routes 3 ( this would be the pages you go to currently - only change is that it can be custom named )
Trade routes 1. Starts at 12:00:00 1/30/2018 ( a full set of trade routes with custom name that has been setup to start in the future)
Hideout supply route ( another full set of trade routes with custom name that is saved but has no future activation set )
Trade routes 2 ( another full set of trade routes with custom name that is saved but has no future activation set )
To clarify these are not routes to add to your current trade routes. This reassigns all your trade routes.
for example the one I custom named hideout supply route, may be exactly the same as trade routes 3 with 10 fleets diverted to stock your hideout.
when you need to fill your hideout warehouse you open this saved set and activate it. when you are done stocking your hideout, you might
open trade routes 3 and reactivate it to send the fleets back to their previous routes.
edit - added a few things to make it more clear what I am suggesting.