Hydromancerx
C2C Modder
Regarding the Galactic Era multiple maps question:
I just thought of "Fake Cities" as possible entrances to other layers of city screen UI (ak sun system, galaxy etc. in "other city screen buiildings could be built, they would somehow overlay with enemy systems there... could it be possible to move units while in city screen / portal to other maplayer?
Ok just to explain what I mean, here's an example:
Imagine you can build a unit like a settler, just called "galaxy portal", make it erect a portal somewhere on normal earth map. Once you klick onto it you get other building possibilities than on earth and the map screen isn't the normal earth map but some other sort of map thats encoded in the changed city screens settings (the idea came to me when I zoomed in a city and saw how the middle view was sort of blacked out a bit, that it could maybe be exchanged by other code)
Then is the big question how units in this "portal map" could move and interact with other civs second layer map city portals and so on (like can there be a city screen UI within a a city screen UI - to zoom into a city on mars for example) but that's maybe a question for another day, so to make a long story short^^:
Could the city screen UI be modified to show another map in its center than the one we see when we zoom into a city, and can it maybe be possible to move certain units while in city screen UI?
I was actually thinking of having your Capital or a Spaceport Wonder be the spot in which your units return to when going to the Earth map. Likewise an initial landing spot would be where all your units go for the moon and mars and for the Galactic Map all would start at "Sol".
Alternatively we could just have a popup menu that allows you to select which city or colony you want to go.
So something like you can only initially go to the moon or Mars from a city with a spaceport (or NASA). When on the city you get a button that says "Launch" and then it brings up a list of possible colonies you can go to. Each would take a different number of turns to arrive at.
When you are first going to the moon or Mars you will arrive at a random location. And until you have set up a spaceport on either the moon or Mars you will not beable to arrive directly at on of their colonies.
The Galactic map however always has you start out at Sol. Sol cannot be claimed, however other star systems can. When leaving out solar system you will select that from the launch menu. However rather than getting a free ride to another star you must actually travel across space to your other colonies. However I suspect it will at least take some turns initially to go from either Earth, the moon or Mars to the Galactic map.
Thus your propulsion method is important for reducing launch times and movement on the Galactic map.