Civilization Manager - Small Tweak, Large Benefit

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In Civilization Manager, you click on the building column to bring up the Quick Build Screen.  From that you select the building to purchase, and away you go, all fine.  Underneath the Quick Build screen the Civilization Manager resets itself back to an initial default state in terms of showing you the list of (whatever).

On the larger size of maps, there is often a considerable surplus of funds per turn depending on an infinite number of factors.  Spending that so its not hammered by the 20,000bc limit in the Bank before penalty is obviously a good thing.  Doing that in the Civ Manager / quick build screen is very frustrating if you want to purchase more than one building or ship. 

Often I find myself having to scroll through (again and again) several pages of entries to get back to where I want to be to make the next purchase.  If I am - for example - buying factories on planets, and there is a long list of (say) 5 pages worth to choose from - and I go through the offered list of buildings entry by entry in the order presented -  the continual resetting of the civ manger screen after each purchase drives me mad - it wastes so much time.

It would be I would have thought, a simple tweak to reset the default action after purchase of one item to stop the underlying civ manager screen from resetting.  It will save huge amounts of time getting back to where I was in the list, and I suspect a good chunk of sanity for many people.

Regards
Zy

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Second. And with some shift-key-select type of processing that'd get even easier... in fact, it is not difficult to imagine that a similar feature for some types (NOT all of them, mind you) of planetary queues would also be a welcomed addition.

I find that a fair amount of multiple factories waiting to be upgraded, as an example, could use group selection if costs are compensated by category. Although this may interfere with the presumed restriction(s) based on development activation of tiles (or just one by one) within a turn.