Stock or import/export in statistics (for Space Age)
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:28 pm
Problem
The statistics show production and consumption of items and alike. For a single planet, one can deduce a lot of information from this, so this was fine before space travel. Now, with multiple planets and space platforms, the information is becoming rather meaningless, because it does not include any information about imports and exports. It is possible to keep track of this with a circuit network, but not everyone uses/can use circuit networks. Also, planet- and platform-wide statistics are harder to implement with circuit networks and thus rather for the late game than for the early game.
Example
The most basic example is ammunition on space platforms:
Here, the space platform travels between Nauvis and Fulgora. However, when the platform arrives at Fulgora, I cannot tell whether my automatic imports from Fulgora can keep up with the continous consumption of 6.5 ammunitions/min. I will have to check every minute and estimate the trend myself. Only then I can determine if the imports will suffice for a longer stay at Fulgora. This information is relevant if I want to send the platform automatically back and forth, because I need to make sure, that it won't run out of ammunition if it has to stay longer at Fulgora.
Further examples are comparing the production and import of science packs on the planet with the labs, and the export of certain materials to other planets.
Suggesion
I have three suggestions on how to add this into the existing statistics view.
1. Add a toggle to include imports and exports to productions and consumptions, similar to the toogle for the global statistics. The values should be summed up, i.e., production+import and consumption+export.
2. Without making the statistics any more crowded, the values can be shown seperately in the tiles below the line graph: the line gets a small gap as separator between the production and import, and the separate values are shown in a tooltip on hover. Alternatively to the gap one could use the ticks like at value sliders or so. The line graph doesn't change. Here's a draft (ignore the typo):
3. If tracking the stock is possible, add a middle column with the stock between production and consumption.
Related topics
This is related to suggestion 610731, which states further reasons, but extends the suggestion with the information of imports/exports.
Edit: improved example
The statistics show production and consumption of items and alike. For a single planet, one can deduce a lot of information from this, so this was fine before space travel. Now, with multiple planets and space platforms, the information is becoming rather meaningless, because it does not include any information about imports and exports. It is possible to keep track of this with a circuit network, but not everyone uses/can use circuit networks. Also, planet- and platform-wide statistics are harder to implement with circuit networks and thus rather for the late game than for the early game.
Example
The most basic example is ammunition on space platforms:
- statistics.png (177.47 KiB) Viewed 215 times
Further examples are comparing the production and import of science packs on the planet with the labs, and the export of certain materials to other planets.
Suggesion
I have three suggestions on how to add this into the existing statistics view.
1. Add a toggle to include imports and exports to productions and consumptions, similar to the toogle for the global statistics. The values should be summed up, i.e., production+import and consumption+export.
2. Without making the statistics any more crowded, the values can be shown seperately in the tiles below the line graph: the line gets a small gap as separator between the production and import, and the separate values are shown in a tooltip on hover. Alternatively to the gap one could use the ticks like at value sliders or so. The line graph doesn't change. Here's a draft (ignore the typo):
- statistics2.png (14.58 KiB) Viewed 215 times
Related topics
This is related to suggestion 610731, which states further reasons, but extends the suggestion with the information of imports/exports.
Edit: improved example