Suggestion: Dynamically Scale Buildings in Planet Mode View for Planetary Interaction
Keywords: Planetary Interaction, PI, Planet Mode, Scale
Note: Efficient PI chains on larger planets are significantly harder to complete and are less valuable than those on smaller planets.
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Currently every time you load into the Planet Mode a planet appears that is exactly the same size as every other planet in the game. With no way to determine scale in this view, this does not seem particularly problematic. However, the buildings the player places on that planet while setting up their PI chain are exactly the same size in this view regardless of the planetGÇÖs actual radius. This means that a link between two buildings directly adjacent to each other will consume significantly less PG on a planet with a smaller radius than a planet with a larger one because the size of the building is changing based on the planetGÇÖs radius.

Presenting the planets in this way is extremely misleading to the player, and can cause frustration when a player tries to use the exact same layout on a larger planet that they used on a smaller one but find they are overloading their Command CenterGÇÖs power core with the same layout on the larger planet.

Having a scaling planet building size in the planet view will reduce player confusion and improve the value of larger planets since it will no longer cost such a large amount of PG to simply set up the colony support buildings. In addition it makes logical sense for a gas giant planet to have significantly more gas resources available (over a larger m^2 and more total m^3) than a planet only a fraction of its size.

An extension on this idea would be to introduce a constant unit grid to the planet. This would provide the player with a scale they can use to more efficiently plan out their PI chain. Even better would be giving the player the option to snap to the grid points on this scale. This would significantly reduce the unnecessary tedium of setting up and maintaining a complicated PI colony.

Thank you for reading!

While I like it, this hardly seems like a little thing.

pretty sure you can change the transparency already i do

Yes you can change the transparency of unpinned windows, however as soon as you pin one it becomes
transparent no matter your transparency settings, i believe this was what the suggestion was meant
to change