First, I would absolutely kill for the option to RIGHT CLICK to close menus. Many games do this now and having to click the "X" for every menu feels clunky. Can I mod this or something? It kills me.

Second, for the sake of change, I'd love a rotation of galaxy map colors/designs/looks. See Endless Space 2 for example. Just some variety would go a long way, as it's boring to look at the same background every game. Please consider it.

DDPD wrote:First, I would absolutely kill for the option to RIGHT CLICK to close menus. Many games do this now and having to click the "X" for every menu feels clunky. Can I mod this or something? It kills me.

Because we're using right-click for other UI actions in a number of places (like Ship motion and queuing up production / research projects), this mechanic is a somewhat awkward fit with the rest of the game UIs. That said, it is possible to detect those cases in which the selected UI element *doesn't* have a defined right-click behavior, and add the right-click-close behavior in those cases.

I've spent a few minutes playing around with a simple patch that does exactly this. I'm still not sure it's a great idea, but, it doesn't yet seem to me obviously broken. So I've exposed it as an optional feature (as of r21046, there's a toggle for it in the Options pane).

If you're on Steam, you can get r21046 right now by switching to the 'hotfix_testing' BETA branch. (Those of you on the private test server will get it automagically, of course.)

Also: if anyone finds places in the game where this optional feature is interfering with other established right-click behaviors, please let me know.

YUSSSSSS, thank you!! I think leaving it in as an option is great! Thank you!!!

So much better with this.

Played for an hour just now. The change is significant and MUCH MUCH better. The game flows much better now, as I'm not constantly searching out that X.

I imagine that many people will like this, as Ashberry and I do.

Second, I had a freeze for the first time in a bit. I'll send it.